~/Examples folder is full of crusty content with terrible filenames
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
One Hundred Papercuts |
Fix Released
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Low
|
Canonical User Experience and Design team | ||
example-content (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
Wishlist
|
Canonical User Experience and Design team |
Bug Description
[~]% ls /usr/share/
logos/
Ubuntu_
Welcome_
Aesop's_
Maxwell'
Derivatives_
Payment_
Trigonometric_
About_Ubuntu_
Presenting_
Presenting_
Kubuntu_leaflet.jpg
About_these_
* Why are underscores used instead of spaces?
* How old are these files? Are they out of date?
* Are they interesting to anyone?
* Are they examples of the best things people can create with Ubuntu?
* Why are Ubuntu users being presented with stuff about Kubuntu (and vice versa)?
I would suggest including fewer but more interesting files.
summary: |
- ~/Examples folder is full of crusty, old content with terrible filenames + ~/Examples folder is full of crusty content with terrible filenames |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in example-content (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Wishlist |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
status: | New → Confirmed |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | none → maverick-round-10-potpourri |
status: | Confirmed → Triaged |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
milestone: | maverick-round-10-potpourri → maverick-round-8-potpourri |
Changed in hundredpapercuts: | |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical User Experience and Design team (canonical-ux) |
Changed in example-content (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | Jorge O. Castro (jorge) → nobody |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical User Experience and Design team (canonical-ux) |
Should we file the "terrible filenames" part as a separate bug report? It strikes me as very odd. We have amazing support for all sorts of characters in file names, and it's fun to point it out. Spaces are not a problem! "Maxwell' s_equations. odt" has a considerably riskier character: a single quote ;)
On another note, I think the use of final products that open in viewers really misses potential value of the Examples folder. Someone may look at it and think "hey, cool pictures!" but they aren't going to walk away feeling that they can do more with Ubuntu. At best they'll be mystified, wondering how the products they saw were created but nowhere closer to making them for themselves.
Instead of a bunch of .jpg files, how about a .xcf file? That way it opens in GIMP and the user is granted an immediate hands on view of what that application does, as well as how it works with a finished product. More inviting, and possibly more educational, than the usual blank canvas.