If you want KDE application, you need KDE Platform to run them. If you want KDE application run on the way as developers suggest, you need one of the many KDE Workspaces (Desktop/Netbook/Mobile/MediaCenter) If you want to develop KDE applications, you need KDE development platform.
You do not need all KDE Applications to get some, you do not need KDE Applications either to get KDE workspace. You can use GTK+ applications as well.
In KDE SC (old name was KDE4) series you got modularity what allows you to have one software for one tasks.
1. KDE is the community what together release different softwares under the "KDE Software Compilation" at same time. 2. The priorisation is in usability and features, not in the eye candy. Only non-tech people see the eye-candy and usability, but techpeople see the technology. 3. KDE SC has never had desktop, it has workspaces. Desktop is dead, it is useless file dumpster for most people. It is unintuitive and against usability by all ways for applications and files. 4. GNOME's desktop is drawn by Nautilus, a GNOME's filemanager. It try to pretend to be a desktop while it is not.
"now they're forcing everyone to use this ugly broken pile of shit for all file transfer progress notifications."
Right click Notification widget -> Notification Settings -> Information (left side, default) -> unmark the "File transfers and other jobs" tick and click OK.
Now you do not have file progress shown by notification widget... nice isn't it? And that is not new feature, it has been there from the start....
"The color scheme doesn't follow any theme settings anywhere in the whole system I can find "
I have totally controlled color schema. But I use plasma theme what follows the color. But you can make a small hack to get any theme to follow your color schema if wanted, not just Aya or few other themes.
"stealing focus every time and completely interrupting whatever you're doing"
They do not steam my focus at all. Not mouse or keyboard focus. You must be using broken package or configuration for such function. And can you please tell what is notification what does not notify you?
And for tip to you, there is coming a feature that notifications follows your activity and current tasks. Like when you are watching movie, you do not get unimportant messages (new emails or IM's or what is happening in IRC etc) but only the important ones (your battery is ending before the movie ends, the video stream got disturbed so your online rent movie is going to have problem soon. Or important message have received by email).
What comes to look... I agree littlebit that there is still polishing...
All your examples are based your experiences from Ubuntu what is one of the worst distributions what use PA by default. Most, if not all, are caused by Ubuntu, not by PA.
Well at last you have not suffered from the windows audio subsystems. But me and all my friends have.
The combination to get Skype, Teamspeak, Games own VoIP and mediaplayers (WMP, iTunes, VLC etc) work together with external speakers and headset causes lots of problems. Even when not using rear and front jacks differently but just rear jacks.
The audio quality can change very much in VoIP. Especially Skype has own problems what does not touch this at all. You can reboot computer and next time you login, your audio settings are changed to something else than default or what you configured. Sometimes it is even enough to just plug the headset (switching from speakers) or mic to cause that windows takes own sound configurations in use (not depending the drivers!) like muting the mic or specific device or even disabling the soundcard.
Almost 80% change that me and one of my friends with who I talk a daily, have problems what demans spending 1-10 minutes to solve problems from our computers. Sometimes windows does change her and sometimes my settings. Was it windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 in use.
I would not call that Windows soundsystem is perfect or even near that. But I would not say it is totally rubbish. Many say that PulseAudio (PA) is rubbish and does not work. But we have noticed that it depends very much what distribution you use, because the default settings can be (and usually are) totally wrong made. I could say that 90% problems is caused by wrong configs (done by distributor). And especially with Ubuntu, the PA is totally rubbish. But in Mandriva, it has worked always as wanted, perfectly. Same thing with openSUSE. With ArchLinux it has been harder to configure but has worked as well perfectly after the installa and the configuration. All, games VoIP's, Skype, mediaplayers, mediacenters and mediaplayers streams have worked perfectly. No config changes or suddnely lost devices etc.
But I would not call Linux soundsystems perfect neither, or rubbish. Because all depends so much from so many combinations that there just is not correct one. Not even Windows system by OEM with preinstalled Skype.
And why Canonical is not using SMOLT what by default does not send anything but even then allows user easily see all the data what is going to be sended in text format and if wanted, user can with single click contribute back by sending the static.
Why Canonical is again re-inventing the wheel by offering worser option to users?
*They* are not giving you a free OS. They are distributing you a Linux OS (=Linux kernel) with lots of software what other communities have developed. They are just distributors and for-profit company what want to tie Ubuntu users to itself and keep them using themself.
If you want to use Linux, you are part of the community. Same thing for with any F/OSS software user. As a user, you are a responsible to protect other users rights as well as others have protected them so you have them. That includes that you need to protect the idea of the anonymous and possibility (by default) to be non-counted to any other business or work what can sacrifice the F/OSS spirit (Liberity/Freedom).
Least what you can do, is to email to Canonical and give them warning that you will change the distribution to other what respect their users change to be non-counted anyway.
Otherwise soon Canonical really is the Microsoft of the Linux Community as they itself like to present them to hardware manufacturers and you have license or activation code so you can be identified and counted even easier way.
All bad comes in very small steps until those who do not know how to watch out and warn others, will be suffering from their ignorance and stupidity and causes others to follow.
They already have been thinking this, over a decade. There are three different "anti-shake" technologies.
1) Optical stabilisator: The D-SLR objectives has a gyro and lens what is integrated to it. When your objective shakes, it try to compensate the movement.
2) Sensor stabilator: The D-SLR body has gyros and the sensor is integrated to them. When the body shakes, the stabilator moves the sensor and twist it and try to compensate the movement.
3) Digital (marketing): This is the cheapest. The camera just calculates the available light and turns ISO up so it can compensate the low light and get faster shutterspeeds. This actually is the one what works best for Point'n'Shoot people.
1) and 2) have limitations. They only compensate the camera movement. They can do 2-3 aperture in good change. like Canonical IS can do 2 aperture while Olympus sensor can do 3 aperture. There are expections as it depends the objective as well. Nikon has 2-3 as well.
Both are useless when the object is moving in different directions. Like running kids. No technology can actually compensate that. Only choise is to rise the ISO and freeze the movement, or use Flash. D-SLR owners knows when to get ISO up and when keep down. P'nS users do not and the auto ISO boost is good for them. But it has limits as well and noise.
The 1) and 2) has good sides as well, you can pan vertically or horisontally. Usually this is only for 2) as configuration options. So you can pan a race car to get it sharp but background blurred. Or turn camera around and set other setting to get a dropping tall object to do same thing.
1) and 2) are good for many situations, but only for 2-3 aperture. And the mono- or tripod is still suggested, even when there is daily light and you get something like f:11, 1/250 with ISO 200.
The rule of thumb is that the smallest shutterspeed what you can get sharper photos without tribod/monopod, is the focal lenght. So if you have 28mm focal, you can go as 1/30. If you have 600mm focal, you need the 1/600.
But that is just for compensating the camera shake, not the object shake. With 1/30 you get easily blurry photo from moving object (people), but with 1/600 you stop the movement of the race car, but it tiers might be moving littlebit.
This "MS Innovation" is not innovation at all. The fixed photos were more terrible than the original. I would anywhere take the so little blurred photo from important case (I just would not publish it) than getting such "fixed" (I would neither publish it either).
What I would do, is to take a new photo.
Photographing is like sharpshooting, you need to control your nerves and your breath. You need to squees the trigger smoothly, not to press it. You need to keep three point hold from the camera (elbows to chest, camera loop to eyebone and if possible, camera back to cheek and make all the movement by turning your middlebody, not your arms or head.
Heavier camera brings lots of stabelness to the shooting, lighter shakes easier. Heavier is slower to use, lighter is faster. So it is same as in shooting, big caliber is slow but powerfull.
The (D-)SLR camera always shakes littlebit when taking photo. The mirror movement causes it. Thats why high-end (D-)SLR cameras has mirror lock-up -mode. Where you can lock mirror and then take the picture after few seconds when the camera is still.
This is important especially when you are shooting from tripod and long shutter speeds (1-6 seconds).
That is where 1) and 2) can help littlebit as well, without boosting ISO.
Photographing is about capturing light. You can not do it later after the situation is over. There is no photos magically coming from your computer to the photo. You can make as much as you want 3D models and situations, but the photo is always copy of the frame.
That is one case why the photographing gear does not matter so much, it is about photographer how well he can handle the gear. Of course good gear helps, but good gear does not make bad p
Problem is not who contributes and who markets. Problem is that Canonical (and ubuntu fans) is saying it is the #1 who listens the users and developes "linux" to new users. Taking care that desktop is developed for enduser, not for computer engineer.
Other ways, Ubuntus fame is build over lie and midbelieve.
Ubuntu is usually a steppinboard for new users. The come in by testing Ubuntu but later switch to other distributions when they notice how the Ubuntu community works and what is the whole picture, not just the ubuntu community.
I have never understanded the idea to make smaller HD's when there have been need to bigger storage space. Not in the normal cases. HTC's and laptops the 1.8" or littlebit bigger can be natural. But full or half tower case, the 5½ is enough. And if with that we can make more secure (less errors) drives, I welcome it right now. Just yesterday Windows 7 destroyed my third HD..... Why it always happend to HD's where I install Windows, but never to HD's where I install Linux or other Unix OS?
I only hope that I would forget that I can forget something. It is not nice at all to notice you have forgot something important, you just can not recall the whole context.
That is like activities in KDE Workspace (Plasma Desktop or Plasma Netbook) what allows you to group the application programs windows to tasks (or tab them with KWin together) and then have them separated and have automatic metadata storing and file linking etc.
I think you just missed the whole point. You (as user) can not use the OS directly. You do not see the OS, you can not control the OS or anything else. You can not tamper the OS at all. All what you do is you need the OS to run all other software in the software system. All software, from system programs to libraries and from command line to graphical user interfaces and application programs, are operated by the operating system. The OS is the monolithic kernel or the microkernel + servers (server-client or layered architecture).
You said that everyone knows what he really meant. But why it is so difficult then to the author to actually say it correct that he can not use any other software more than OS itself what just operates the hardware and all other software.
If it is so obvious, then there should not be a point to correct people by thinking the GUI (or CLI) is the (part of) operating system.
I know lots of very talented coders who even believe that printed manuals belongs to the OS. Or the Adobe Flash is part of the OS if it comes preinstalled. If it does not come preinstalled, then it is not part of the OS.
Fact just is that most people do not even have a clue what the OS is. They just repeat what companies marketing tells to them or the salesman who sold the computer for them.
It is too bad that companies are the one who control the world. And smaller companies, even big international corporations are controlled by bigger ones or very small group of people (whole world can be in the hands from few dozens to few hundreds). They are the mens behind curtains who no one knows and who controls the media and what laws gets passed. Sounds very very very conspiracy theory but it would be foolish not even think it would be possible or it would not be executed in some manner.
Corporation CEO's should always be responsible what is happening in the company. And companies should be always responsible for the society where they are working. If the company cheats or brakes the law, they should be warned and billed first time (if crime is small), second time the company is simply taken a part. Government should not come to rescue any company what wants that markets are not controlled by government but there would be total capitalism. The idea in the capitalism was that the companies rises and they fall soon. That there would never be big international companies what controls others and slow downs the development or competition.
It is just funny how capitalism needs that almost every 15-20 years there comes big troubles like this last 2008-2009 happening. And the game table is reset by the government by using socialism key ideas. Too bad that peoples money is spended to big companies to pay for those share holders who toke "a risk" in the first place to actually having change to loose all their money if the invest did not work.
What risk is to invest money to big corporations when the government pays share holders invest and bonuses when the risk comes true? Only because those shareholders or companies are just too big "to be lost". Truth is that there is always somekind blackmail behind the actions to pay off the money for shareholders so they would not pull the money from other important companies or deals. Even governments are slaves for shareholders, while government should be servent for the people.
And if you would place $2000 dollars per house, you would get solar panels to every single of them and give almost 100% free energy production to 700 000 houses with that money!
And same time, the solar panels production prices would come down and you could actually buy even more for millions houses and get power needs being dropped over 60%!
I think only thing what you can start of is take Marble (part of KDE SC Edu package) what supports openstreetmaps and other GPS locations. You can get GPS information from devices and place them to maps. You can also draw routes to map in the latest version. You can as well get satelite views and other kind as well. It supports OSD's and other templates what could be used. Right now they are used to show wikipedia, flicrk! and few other sites infos and thumbnails over map.
So at least there is no need to start from scratch.
My friend works on garden company and while he is the vice president, he wanted to arrage a GPS system with same ideas as you have. The results were that in the office there is a big 50" LCD screen what shows the map and on that map is continuesly realtime updates of the company vehicles (about 35) and every job what they get, is listed to side of the screen. There you can easily assign groups or specific workers to do them. They get them pushed to their mobile devices (If I remember correctly, all were iPhones) with contact and job informations, like camera photos of what is needed to move to where or what trees are needed to cut off or where the fountain is going to be placed, how the rock path is needed to get dicked etc etc.
That was about 2 years ago and I have no idea is it open source or not. But I only know such thing just made it so much easier to manage the company when almost all workers are all the time outside of the office in the field and there usually is one job for day or two on summertimes. Winter time the joblist is more standard when there is no outside works. But same thing applies then.
Especially they have liked very much the idea that if you need to pickup something from store, you can check what is the closest car and check what is the route to it next tasks. So you can just ask car B to go store, pick up the merchandines and meet car A between B's route to next tasks and swap them to car A what can continue to do their job. While saving time like 1-2 hourhs in that.
And what has improved their work quality almost totall error free is the integration to phones snapped photos. So when on last day the boss meets the client and discuss the plans, the photos works as orders and there is no mistakes what was needed to do and no need to call after on next day to ask what was the tasks and what tree to cut, what flowers to place in what order etc.
If possible, you could contact to Marble developers, ask what would be possible and work with them. In the end there should be nothing more needed than get the phones or other devices to send GPS data to servers where they get grepped and processed and then shown over marble.
And Marble only needs KDE Platform and KDE Edu package. So you can get it work with different OS's (Linux, XNU, NT, SunOS, FreeBSD). So all the software systems using those OS's can be used then.
I am still downloading the Emacs, with the 3G connection it takes few days to get the text editor installed. I think I should take the nano when it was suggested!
I really much liked the feature. It allowed to make own personal search site.
The idea was much better than in Bing.
Only bad designs were that background was set by default. What got many so angry about it.
If Google listens, it will keep the background feature as optional.
But same time it should allow more customizations as well.
Possibility to hide google site top bar (Web, Pictures, Maps, Blogs etc searches) so user could show/hide it with simple small transparent icon on top right corner.
Secondly, have a possibility to lockdown the user accoung so you can not change background or even user or logout. This would help many small companies to make public computer where people would use google search, but the google page could be added with company own background (still keeping the Google logo there etc).
I really much liked the idea. Now I just want to have the topbar hided. Even better if it would "fade in" only when hovering mouse over the top edge of the google site.
That would make the Google page so clear and simply to use!
No it does not. As pointed in the post for what you are replying and what others have posted. The Chrome AdBlock only hides Ads but does not block them. If using Chrome, only way to block Ads would be using a system wide AdBlocker what does not allow Chrome to even take connection to Ad servers.
ReKonq is even better on that than Chrome because it can block all the slow and annoing Flash Ads and speeds up the browsing when you are on mobile or otherwise limited connection.
Not possible to sort playlist by colum? Yes it is possible. Just click the top left corner of the playlist, there is a icon of drop-down-list. Choose from there what different sorting you want. Then they get added to top of the list. When you want to sort list with specific way, click the small sort arrow after the colum name.
And just place the context view as tab to music database. Then add there a album and similar artists widgets. They stay out of your way very easily as well. Very easy if just wanted to get such layout.
Oh, and Amarok 2.2+ do allow you to use external MySQL (etc). I use one MySQL backend for what I connect all my apps what use SQL. Just test and find out. Not every 6 month but every release. And there is now only a two different toolbars, normal and minimalistic. I hope there would be may other as well. There is talks that toolbar would come as separated widget and you can move it like now the playlist, collection etc. Then you could place it just under playlist if wanted or same way.
I am familiar with the 1.4 version porting, but I find it just for small group of users.
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If you want KDE application, you need KDE Platform to run them.
If you want KDE application run on the way as developers suggest, you need one of the many KDE Workspaces (Desktop/Netbook/Mobile/MediaCenter)
If you want to develop KDE applications, you need KDE development platform.
You do not need all KDE Applications to get some, you do not need KDE Applications either to get KDE workspace. You can use GTK+ applications as well.
In KDE SC (old name was KDE4) series you got modularity what allows you to have one software for one tasks.
1. KDE is the community what together release different softwares under the "KDE Software Compilation" at same time.
2. The priorisation is in usability and features, not in the eye candy. Only non-tech people see the eye-candy and usability, but techpeople see the technology.
3. KDE SC has never had desktop, it has workspaces. Desktop is dead, it is useless file dumpster for most people. It is unintuitive and against usability by all ways for applications and files.
4. GNOME's desktop is drawn by Nautilus, a GNOME's filemanager. It try to pretend to be a desktop while it is not.
"now they're forcing everyone to use this ugly broken pile of shit for all file transfer progress notifications."
Right click Notification widget -> Notification Settings -> Information (left side, default) -> unmark the "File transfers and other jobs" tick and click OK.
Now you do not have file progress shown by notification widget... nice isn't it? And that is not new feature, it has been there from the start....
"The color scheme doesn't follow any theme settings anywhere in the whole system I can find "
I have totally controlled color schema. But I use plasma theme what follows the color. But you can make a small hack to get any theme to follow your color schema if wanted, not just Aya or few other themes.
"stealing focus every time and completely interrupting whatever you're doing"
They do not steam my focus at all. Not mouse or keyboard focus. You must be using broken package or configuration for such function. And can you please tell what is notification what does not notify you?
And for tip to you, there is coming a feature that notifications follows your activity and current tasks. Like when you are watching movie, you do not get unimportant messages (new emails or IM's or what is happening in IRC etc) but only the important ones (your battery is ending before the movie ends, the video stream got disturbed so your online rent movie is going to have problem soon. Or important message have received by email).
What comes to look... I agree littlebit that there is still polishing...
All your examples are based your experiences from Ubuntu what is one of the worst distributions what use PA by default. Most, if not all, are caused by Ubuntu, not by PA.
Well at last you have not suffered from the windows audio subsystems. But me and all my friends have.
The combination to get Skype, Teamspeak, Games own VoIP and mediaplayers (WMP, iTunes, VLC etc) work together with external speakers and headset causes lots of problems. Even when not using rear and front jacks differently but just rear jacks.
The audio quality can change very much in VoIP. Especially Skype has own problems what does not touch this at all. You can reboot computer and next time you login, your audio settings are changed to something else than default or what you configured. Sometimes it is even enough to just plug the headset (switching from speakers) or mic to cause that windows takes own sound configurations in use (not depending the drivers!) like muting the mic or specific device or even disabling the soundcard.
Almost 80% change that me and one of my friends with who I talk a daily, have problems what demans spending 1-10 minutes to solve problems from our computers. Sometimes windows does change her and sometimes my settings. Was it windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7 in use.
I would not call that Windows soundsystem is perfect or even near that. But I would not say it is totally rubbish.
Many say that PulseAudio (PA) is rubbish and does not work. But we have noticed that it depends very much what distribution you use, because the default settings can be (and usually are) totally wrong made. I could say that 90% problems is caused by wrong configs (done by distributor). And especially with Ubuntu, the PA is totally rubbish. But in Mandriva, it has worked always as wanted, perfectly. Same thing with openSUSE. With ArchLinux it has been harder to configure but has worked as well perfectly after the installa and the configuration. All, games VoIP's, Skype, mediaplayers, mediacenters and mediaplayers streams have worked perfectly. No config changes or suddnely lost devices etc.
But I would not call Linux soundsystems perfect neither, or rubbish. Because all depends so much from so many combinations that there just is not correct one. Not even Windows system by OEM with preinstalled Skype.
How about a windshield sweeper kinda device to the monitor that after the password entry, it activates and swipes the screen.
Just waiting kids to swap rubber blades to razor blades and people will loose their fingers....
I would not have. Canonical has shown again that they really want to be the Microsoft and we all should already know what that means to whole world!
And why Canonical is not using SMOLT what by default does not send anything but even then allows user easily see all the data what is going to be sended in text format and if wanted, user can with single click contribute back by sending the static.
Why Canonical is again re-inventing the wheel by offering worser option to users?
*They* are not giving you a free OS. They are distributing you a Linux OS (=Linux kernel) with lots of software what other communities have developed. They are just distributors and for-profit company what want to tie Ubuntu users to itself and keep them using themself.
If you want to use Linux, you are part of the community. Same thing for with any F/OSS software user. As a user, you are a responsible to protect other users rights as well as others have protected them so you have them. That includes that you need to protect the idea of the anonymous and possibility (by default) to be non-counted to any other business or work what can sacrifice the F/OSS spirit (Liberity/Freedom).
Least what you can do, is to email to Canonical and give them warning that you will change the distribution to other what respect their users change to be non-counted anyway.
Otherwise soon Canonical really is the Microsoft of the Linux Community as they itself like to present them to hardware manufacturers and you have license or activation code so you can be identified and counted even easier way.
All bad comes in very small steps until those who do not know how to watch out and warn others, will be suffering from their ignorance and stupidity and causes others to follow.
They already have been thinking this, over a decade.
There are three different "anti-shake" technologies.
1) Optical stabilisator: The D-SLR objectives has a gyro and lens what is integrated to it. When your objective shakes, it try to compensate the movement.
2) Sensor stabilator: The D-SLR body has gyros and the sensor is integrated to them. When the body shakes, the stabilator moves the sensor and twist it and try to compensate the movement.
3) Digital (marketing): This is the cheapest. The camera just calculates the available light and turns ISO up so it can compensate the low light and get faster shutterspeeds.
This actually is the one what works best for Point'n'Shoot people.
1) and 2) have limitations. They only compensate the camera movement. They can do 2-3 aperture in good change. like Canonical IS can do 2 aperture while Olympus sensor can do 3 aperture. There are expections as it depends the objective as well. Nikon has 2-3 as well.
Both are useless when the object is moving in different directions. Like running kids. No technology can actually compensate that. Only choise is to rise the ISO and freeze the movement, or use Flash. D-SLR owners knows when to get ISO up and when keep down. P'nS users do not and the auto ISO boost is good for them. But it has limits as well and noise.
The 1) and 2) has good sides as well, you can pan vertically or horisontally. Usually this is only for 2) as configuration options. So you can pan a race car to get it sharp but background blurred. Or turn camera around and set other setting to get a dropping tall object to do same thing.
1) and 2) are good for many situations, but only for 2-3 aperture. And the mono- or tripod is still suggested, even when there is daily light and you get something like f:11, 1/250 with ISO 200.
The rule of thumb is that the smallest shutterspeed what you can get sharper photos without tribod/monopod, is the focal lenght. So if you have 28mm focal, you can go as 1/30. If you have 600mm focal, you need the 1/600.
But that is just for compensating the camera shake, not the object shake. With 1/30 you get easily blurry photo from moving object (people), but with 1/600 you stop the movement of the race car, but it tiers might be moving littlebit.
This "MS Innovation" is not innovation at all. The fixed photos were more terrible than the original. I would anywhere take the so little blurred photo from important case (I just would not publish it) than getting such "fixed" (I would neither publish it either).
What I would do, is to take a new photo.
Photographing is like sharpshooting, you need to control your nerves and your breath. You need to squees the trigger smoothly, not to press it. You need to keep three point hold from the camera (elbows to chest, camera loop to eyebone and if possible, camera back to cheek and make all the movement by turning your middlebody, not your arms or head.
Heavier camera brings lots of stabelness to the shooting, lighter shakes easier. Heavier is slower to use, lighter is faster. So it is same as in shooting, big caliber is slow but powerfull.
The (D-)SLR camera always shakes littlebit when taking photo. The mirror movement causes it. Thats why high-end (D-)SLR cameras has mirror lock-up -mode. Where you can lock mirror and then take the picture after few seconds when the camera is still.
This is important especially when you are shooting from tripod and long shutter speeds (1-6 seconds).
That is where 1) and 2) can help littlebit as well, without boosting ISO.
Photographing is about capturing light. You can not do it later after the situation is over. There is no photos magically coming from your computer to the photo. You can make as much as you want 3D models and situations, but the photo is always copy of the frame.
That is one case why the photographing gear does not matter so much, it is about photographer how well he can handle the gear. Of course good gear helps, but good gear does not make bad p
Problem is not who contributes and who markets. Problem is that Canonical (and ubuntu fans) is saying it is the #1 who listens the users and developes "linux" to new users. Taking care that desktop is developed for enduser, not for computer engineer.
Other ways, Ubuntus fame is build over lie and midbelieve.
Ubuntu is usually a steppinboard for new users. The come in by testing Ubuntu but later switch to other distributions when they notice how the Ubuntu community works and what is the whole picture, not just the ubuntu community.
Welcome back 5½ drives. We all have missed you!
I have never understanded the idea to make smaller HD's when there have been need to bigger storage space. Not in the normal cases. HTC's and laptops the 1.8" or littlebit bigger can be natural. But full or half tower case, the 5½ is enough. And if with that we can make more secure (less errors) drives, I welcome it right now. Just yesterday Windows 7 destroyed my third HD..... Why it always happend to HD's where I install Windows, but never to HD's where I install Linux or other Unix OS?
And what you think that would help when he later turns them back and company notices it?
And how about hiring someone who lies so much?
And how about the companies who care WTF the employee is doing in his spare time?
We all really are liers and whores for the companies. Our status is just that who gets paid most from the "fuck".
I only hope that I would forget that I can forget something.
It is not nice at all to notice you have forgot something important, you just can not recall the whole context.
That is like activities in KDE Workspace (Plasma Desktop or Plasma Netbook) what allows you to group the application programs windows to tasks (or tab them with KWin together) and then have them separated and have automatic metadata storing and file linking etc.
I think you just missed the whole point. You (as user) can not use the OS directly. You do not see the OS, you can not control the OS or anything else. You can not tamper the OS at all. All what you do is you need the OS to run all other software in the software system. All software, from system programs to libraries and from command line to graphical user interfaces and application programs, are operated by the operating system. The OS is the monolithic kernel or the microkernel + servers (server-client or layered architecture).
You said that everyone knows what he really meant. But why it is so difficult then to the author to actually say it correct that he can not use any other software more than OS itself what just operates the hardware and all other software.
If it is so obvious, then there should not be a point to correct people by thinking the GUI (or CLI) is the (part of) operating system.
I know lots of very talented coders who even believe that printed manuals belongs to the OS. Or the Adobe Flash is part of the OS if it comes preinstalled. If it does not come preinstalled, then it is not part of the OS.
Fact just is that most people do not even have a clue what the OS is. They just repeat what companies marketing tells to them or the salesman who sold the computer for them.
It is too bad that companies are the one who control the world. And smaller companies, even big international corporations are controlled by bigger ones or very small group of people (whole world can be in the hands from few dozens to few hundreds). They are the mens behind curtains who no one knows and who controls the media and what laws gets passed. Sounds very very very conspiracy theory but it would be foolish not even think it would be possible or it would not be executed in some manner.
Corporation CEO's should always be responsible what is happening in the company. And companies should be always responsible for the society where they are working. If the company cheats or brakes the law, they should be warned and billed first time (if crime is small), second time the company is simply taken a part. Government should not come to rescue any company what wants that markets are not controlled by government but there would be total capitalism. The idea in the capitalism was that the companies rises and they fall soon. That there would never be big international companies what controls others and slow downs the development or competition.
It is just funny how capitalism needs that almost every 15-20 years there comes big troubles like this last 2008-2009 happening. And the game table is reset by the government by using socialism key ideas. Too bad that peoples money is spended to big companies to pay for those share holders who toke "a risk" in the first place to actually having change to loose all their money if the invest did not work.
What risk is to invest money to big corporations when the government pays share holders invest and bonuses when the risk comes true? Only because those shareholders or companies are just too big "to be lost". Truth is that there is always somekind blackmail behind the actions to pay off the money for shareholders so they would not pull the money from other important companies or deals. Even governments are slaves for shareholders, while government should be servent for the people.
I smell... dinner... must go now! Bye!
And if you would place $2000 dollars per house, you would get solar panels to every single of them and give almost 100% free energy production to 700 000 houses with that money!
And same time, the solar panels production prices would come down and you could actually buy even more for millions houses and get power needs being dropped over 60%!
I think only thing what you can start of is take Marble (part of KDE SC Edu package) what supports openstreetmaps and other GPS locations. You can get GPS information from devices and place them to maps. You can also draw routes to map in the latest version. You can as well get satelite views and other kind as well. It supports OSD's and other templates what could be used. Right now they are used to show wikipedia, flicrk! and few other sites infos and thumbnails over map.
So at least there is no need to start from scratch.
My friend works on garden company and while he is the vice president, he wanted to arrage a GPS system with same ideas as you have. The results were that in the office there is a big 50" LCD screen what shows the map and on that map is continuesly realtime updates of the company vehicles (about 35) and every job what they get, is listed to side of the screen. There you can easily assign groups or specific workers to do them. They get them pushed to their mobile devices (If I remember correctly, all were iPhones) with contact and job informations, like camera photos of what is needed to move to where or what trees are needed to cut off or where the fountain is going to be placed, how the rock path is needed to get dicked etc etc.
That was about 2 years ago and I have no idea is it open source or not. But I only know such thing just made it so much easier to manage the company when almost all workers are all the time outside of the office in the field and there usually is one job for day or two on summertimes. Winter time the joblist is more standard when there is no outside works. But same thing applies then.
Especially they have liked very much the idea that if you need to pickup something from store, you can check what is the closest car and check what is the route to it next tasks. So you can just ask car B to go store, pick up the merchandines and meet car A between B's route to next tasks and swap them to car A what can continue to do their job. While saving time like 1-2 hourhs in that.
And what has improved their work quality almost totall error free is the integration to phones snapped photos. So when on last day the boss meets the client and discuss the plans, the photos works as orders and there is no mistakes what was needed to do and no need to call after on next day to ask what was the tasks and what tree to cut, what flowers to place in what order etc.
If possible, you could contact to Marble developers, ask what would be possible and work with them. In the end there should be nothing more needed than get the phones or other devices to send GPS data to servers where they get grepped and processed and then shown over marble.
And Marble only needs KDE Platform and KDE Edu package. So you can get it work with different OS's (Linux, XNU, NT, SunOS, FreeBSD). So all the software systems using those OS's can be used then.
I am still downloading the Emacs, with the 3G connection it takes few days to get the text editor installed. I think I should take the nano when it was suggested!
I really much liked the feature. It allowed to make own personal search site.
The idea was much better than in Bing.
Only bad designs were that background was set by default. What got many so angry about it.
If Google listens, it will keep the background feature as optional.
But same time it should allow more customizations as well.
Possibility to hide google site top bar (Web, Pictures, Maps, Blogs etc searches) so user could show/hide it with simple small transparent icon on top right corner.
Secondly, have a possibility to lockdown the user accoung so you can not change background or even user or logout. This would help many small companies to make public computer where people would use google search, but the google page could be added with company own background (still keeping the Google logo there etc).
I really much liked the idea. Now I just want to have the topbar hided. Even better if it would "fade in" only when hovering mouse over the top edge of the google site.
That would make the Google page so clear and simply to use!
I want to "kill" the top bar and leave the sidebar!
The sidebar has all the functions what I need most = Tools to actually filter my searches different ways very easily!
I do not use topbar at all by default. I want it to be a panel what comes down when I click it to come down.
Even better would be if both panels would be possible get hided and get so on very minimal UI.
No it does not. As pointed in the post for what you are replying and what others have posted. The Chrome AdBlock only hides Ads but does not block them. If using Chrome, only way to block Ads would be using a system wide AdBlocker what does not allow Chrome to even take connection to Ad servers.
ReKonq is even better on that than Chrome because it can block all the slow and annoing Flash Ads and speeds up the browsing when you are on mobile or otherwise limited connection.
Not possible to sort playlist by colum? Yes it is possible. Just click the top left corner of the playlist, there is a icon of drop-down-list. Choose from there what different sorting you want. Then they get added to top of the list. When you want to sort list with specific way, click the small sort arrow after the colum name.
And just place the context view as tab to music database. Then add there a album and similar artists widgets. They stay out of your way very easily as well. Very easy if just wanted to get such layout.
Oh, and Amarok 2.2+ do allow you to use external MySQL (etc). I use one MySQL backend for what I connect all my apps what use SQL. Just test and find out. Not every 6 month but every release. And there is now only a two different toolbars, normal and minimalistic. I hope there would be may other as well. There is talks that toolbar would come as separated widget and you can move it like now the playlist, collection etc. Then you could place it just under playlist if wanted or same way.
I am familiar with the 1.4 version porting, but I find it just for small group of users.