I was flaming Ubuntu in an earlier post for their lack of quality in their releases, so I thought it would be fair to give them credit when it is due. They have a project called One Hundred Paper Cuts where they try to fix low hanging fruit, easy bugs but annoying bugs. Bugs that when stacked together really can make you go from loving a piece of software to hating it. When I look through the blog post for their round 6, I really like what they are fixing.
We need more of this in software. It’s so easy, and has become so accepted, to ship a half-baked product and just slap a beta sign on it nowadays. Release early, release often is great, but there is also a time for making fixing all the small annoying bugs. If they plan on fixing this bug, then this is a step in the right direction.