Looks like this week is going to be two weeks worth of fun at System76.

Double your pleasure, right? :-)

OK, folks - Sri here: let me clue you in on what the busy people @System76 have been up to!

New Staff Members + Amping Up Quality:

First of all, I want to introduce two new members of our team. The

first person is Aaron Honeycutt, who will be doing customer support

alongside the famous and adorable Emma Marshall. Aaron comes from the

Kubuntu community and is quite active there. With his familiarity with

Ubuntu, Aaron will be the Robin to Emma’s Batman, the Honeycutt to

Hawkeye. See what I did there? I got groans at the office when I said

that. I think I’m on a list. I love being on lists!

The second person, Ben Shpurker, has joined us as our dedicated QA tester. Previously this role was shared between our Support, Engineering, and Management teams. And we’re really excited to have a dedicated person take on this important task. Ben’s level of detail has already really helped ensure our growing ambitions continue to meet our high standards. Since Ben has a strong Linux Background (playing with Linux since 7th grade and having interned with Red Hat twice), he will be especially laser focused on helping test Pop!_OS installation and features. This guy really doesn’t like bugs: not in his beer, not in his bed, and especially not in his software and hardware. We are going to amp up the quality with focused quality assurance through his efforts.

Every Little Detail Matters:

This round introduces several styling changes, refining the Pop!_OS user

experience further, to wit:

• We’ve introduced theme support for elementary/granite titlebars. Those

who use Elementary’s Terminal will be familiar with the styling.

• Introduced some new styling for the entry widget similar to the search ox

in Pop!_Shop

• Tab coloring in Terminal has been improved. We noticed that the tabs on the terminal previously looked out of place with the other colors that we had in light-theme. Now it should look more cohesive.

• Pop!_Shop has seen some design changes in how applications are listed

that should improve the presentation of applications in the store.

• Design changes to how scrollbar presentation was also worked on.

Pop!_OS Beta Release:

Thank you for all the feedback that you gave us during the beta release

last week. Thanks to your efforts many bugs that were exposed through

your feedback were addressed. Please keep them coming! Our release is

less than a week away and the more feedback we get, the better the end

result. So be sure to post any feedback in our Reddit forum /r/pop_os. If

you find bugs then please create an issue at

https://github.com/system76/pop-distro/issues.

As usual, we would love your feedback. Our release is less than a week

away and the more feedback we get, the better the experience! Please

make sure you post your feedback at

https://github.com/system76/pop-distro/issues.