"Canonical, the company behind the popular Ubuntu Linux
distribution, is launching a new project to improve the usability
of the platform. The developers aim to identify and resolve 100
minor bugs that negatively impact the Ubuntu user experience before
the release of the next major version in October.
"The initiative, which is called One Hundred Paper Cuts, will be
implemented by Canonical's new design and user experience team in
collaboration with the Ubuntu community. Canonical's design experts
have called for Ubuntu users to participate by helping to identify
relevant bugs. They are specifically looking for easily fixable
bugs that impact the usability of key system components such as the
panels and file manager. Canonical hopes to boost the overall
quality of the platform by addressing a multitude of subtle issues
that developers would otherwise ignore. Many of the improvements
that are applied through this effort will directly benefit upstream
projects."
