14 DAY TRIAL // Ubuntu developers are pulling out all the stops in their quest to provide the best Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusy Tahr) experience possible and this means fixing the smallest bugs they can find.
Just a few days ago, a new default wallpaper has been introduced in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusy Tahr), called Suru. It follows the Origami concept of folding paper and it managed to remain similar to what has been used until now.
Dimitri John Ledkov from Canonical noticed that the new and shiny wallpaper didn't stretch correctly in other resolutions that weren't directly proportional with the size of the original image, which is 16:10. With 16:9 monitor, the default grid in Unity greeter and even on the desktop didn't match with the wallpaper, leaving it off-centered.
“On main screen the center dot is not in the center of the origami folds. Similarly, whilst the gradient of the folds is the same as the grid-pattern diagonal, the dots don't line up on the fold. On the off-screen the grid circle-of-friends is not in the center of the origami fold,” said Dimitri John Ledkov in the bug report on Launchpad.
The problem has been quickly fixed by the Ubuntu developers and the new Ubuntu wallpaper should arrive in the repositories at any moment. This should not be something impressive, but the level of attention to details, which is a characteristic of the Ubuntu developers and of the Ubuntu community alike, is indicative of the kind of quality we expect to see from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusy Tahr).
A very similar problem has been fixed in one of the previous Ubuntu iterations. Someone noticed that the swirl in the Ubuntu Dash was designed counter-clockwise. He explained that in human culture, the counter-clockwise direction is usually identified as something negative. Ubuntu developers understood and changed the swirl to be clockwise, even if the development cycle had already passed the feature freeze point.
Canonical has already implemented a large number of new features in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusy Tahr) and the distribution is expected to make quite an impact in the Linux community. The developers have managed to implement almost all the latest packages available, a very new Linux kernel, and lots of visual changes.
Granted, the time to get Mir and Unity 8 is not yet here, but if Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusy Tahr) hits all the right notes, it might remain installed on our computers for a long time.
The new distribution from Canonical is expected to arrive on April 17.