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The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) has ordered an additional two five-bladed H145s destined to equip the Sécurité Civile, an agency of the French Ministry of Interior that performs rescue and air medical transport services throughout France.
First A321XLR development aircraft undergoes final assembly
The structural completion of MSN11000 in the Final Assembly Line (FAL) in Hamburg follows the recent assembly and equipping of the Major Component Assemblies (MCAs) and their subsequent delivery and introduction on schedule into the FAL in November.
Boeing's chief technical pilot indicted for lying to regulators about 737 Max
ATR kick-starts 40-year anniversary with CEO video
Stefano Bortoli, CEO of ATR, shares all that makes the pride of ATR, starting with the employees, who work every day to make the company successful. ATR represents 40 years of collaboration, innovation, excellence and opportunity. We call it 40 years of making a difference.
Aircraft Lessor Griffin Global Asset Management Orders Five Boeing 737-8 Jets
Boeing and Griffin Global Asset Management today announced the aircraft lessor is expanding its commercial aircraft portfolio with five new 737-8 jets. The purchase is Griffin's first direct order with Boeing as it sees strategic opportunities to place the airplanes during the market recovery.
Skye Aviation orders 15 Bye Aerospace eFlyer 800s
Bye Aerospace announced that Skye Aviation, an aircraft leasing company headquartered in Denver, Colorado, has completed purchase deposits for 15 eFlyer 800 aircraft.
Britten-Norman eyes new export opportunities
Britten-Norman has acquired a fleet of BN2T-4S Islander aircraft which have previously served with distinction in the UK military.
Embraer delivers 14 commercial and 20 executive jets in 2Q 2021
Embraer delivered a total of 34 jets in the second quarter of 2021, of which 14 were commercial aircraft and 20 were executive jets (12 light and eight large). As of June 30, the firm order backlog totaled USD 15.9 billion, a 12% increase compared to the backlog at the end of the first quarter, and which represented a return to pre-pandemic levels.
Cirrus Aircraft unveils G2+ Vision Jet with up to 20% enhanced take-off performance and inflight wifi connectivity
Cirrus Aircraft today unveiled a re-imagined Vision Jet – the G2+ Vision Jet – featuring optimized engine performance for expanded mission capabilities, Gogo® InFlight WiFi for a connected cabin experience, and bold, new colorways for added ramp presence.
Boeing delivered 79 aircraft during the second quarter of 2021
Boeing announced major program deliveries across its commercial and defense operations for the second quarter of 2021. «We continue the work to deliver on our commitments to our commercial, defense, space and services customers, while positioning our business for a stable and strong recovery from the pandemic. In the second quarter, we made progress in safely returning the 737 MAX to service in more international markets and increasing the pace of 737 deliveries,» the company said.
La EASA certifica el Cessna Citation Longitude
Textron Aviation anunció hoy que su avión de negocios de tamaño supermedio Cessna Citation Longitude ha obtenido la certificación de la Agencia Europea de Seguridad Aérea (EASA), allanando el camino para que las entregas a los clientes comiencen en la región.
SAF orders three H145s for EMS missions in France
SAF Group will be operating three more five-bladed H145s for emergency medical services (EMS) in France. These three aircraft will be based in Grenoble, Valence, and Montpellier. They will complement the three H145s already ordered by SAF in 2018 and 2020, the first of which was delivered recently and will be deployed for EMS missions in Belgium.
Boeing and Alaska Airlines partner to make flying safer and more sustainable
Boeing and Alaska Airlines announced they are partnering on the latest Boeing ecoDemonstrator program and will flight test about 20 technologies on a new 737-9 to enhance the safety and sustainability of air travel.
L'avion supersonique d'Aerion, c'est fini
Croatia buys 12 second-hand Rafale
Croatia has selected the Rafale for its Air Force, following an international call for tenders as part of its Multi Role Fighter Aircraft (MRFA) program. The contract between the French and Croatian authorities will cover the acquisition of 12 Rafale previously in service with the French Air Force, as well as fleet support and training.


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Many of you might know me from my days with The Tennessean.
Up until this week, the newspaper served as my home base for covering the Tennessee Titans over the past 16 seasons.
It was a memorable experience, beginning with the magical 1999 season that ended with a trip to Super Bowl XXXIV.
Over the years, I've covered every game at Nissan Stadium.
As of today, I'll be providing content here at www.titansonline.com after being hired as senior writer and editor for the team's official website earlier this month.
It's a great opportunity, and I'm excited about it.
My mission here will be the same as it was at the newspaper – to keep the fans informed, and up to speed with what's going on with their favorite football team.
Feature stories, practice reports, game stories and analysis will be a part of the coverage, in addition to a behind-the-scenes look at the team. I'll answer your questions in mailbags, and you can still easily find me on Twitter (@jwyattsports), Instagram (jwyattsports) and on Facebook.
In addition to writing about the Titans, I'll also work alongside "The Voice of the Titans", Mike Keith, and Titansonline.com's Amie Wells on a variety of Titans media platforms, including Titans All Access, Titans Radio, and both packaged reports and live productions for Titansonline.com.
I know fans are fired up about the start of the 2015 season.
I'm fired up about being on board here, and ready to get started.


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Tippecanoe Library Renovation
In 2015, the Milwaukee Public Library System's Tippecanoe Branch had its first major renovation since it was first built in 1969. The branch was modernized to offer the latest technology as well as updated departments. In addition to the interior improvements, the property's exterior was also improved. Marek worked as part of a multidisciplinary design team led by architectural firm Engberg Anderson to provide landscape architecture services for the complete renovation of Tippecanoe Library. Components of the new design include permeable pavers, two bioswales that control stormwater on-site, a story garden, a community vegetable garden, a West Pocket park, a bus stop plaza, and terrace trees. Drought- and urban-tolerant prairie plants and Quaking Aspen (Populus tremuloides) were chosen for changing seasonal interest and the ability to adapt to the often harsh conditions of a built environment.


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European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development: Europe invests in rural areas
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Extra Virgin Oliva Oil Monovarietal Picudo
Picudo Olive variety is commonly mistaken with Picual, but there are notable differences between the two varieties. Picudo variety is originally from Baena (Córdoba) and the Noguero Family has introduced the variety in their Olive Groves giving the special flavor of north Spain to this exceptional variety of south Spain.
Noguero Somontano's Monovarietal Picudo Extra Virgin Olive Oil is a full-bodied Olive Oil with fresh fruit notes, complemented with intense bitterness and spiciness, both of them persistent in the palate.
Noguero Somontano Picudo Olive Oil is perfect for cooking gazpacho, emulsions and homemade tomato sauces. It is also perfect for garnishing all kinds of seafood and fish.
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CSU at Todos Santos: Q&A with Amy Rex
Amy Rex, Administrative and Program Assistant at the CSU Todos Santos Center, shares her experience at the Center - in her own words.
Amy Rex, Administrative and Program Assistant at the CSU Todos Santos Center, shares her experience at the Center - in her own words.
Five diplomats from Associated Students of Colorado State University (ASCSU) visited the CSU Todos Santos Center in Baja California Sur, Mexico, this spring, to take part in a leadership exchange.
The CSU Todos Santos Ambassador Leadership Board is a newly-formed organization to continue connections among students, create cultural understanding and share experiences with the extended campus community, allowing all CSU students and faculty to connect to Todos Santos.
CSU veterinary students can now be part of an international service-learning course based at the CSU Todos Santos Center.
Colorado State University students are engaging in learning experiences that combine curriculum with a global perspective – and it's all happening just more than 1,000 miles from the Oval.
The size and scale of American animal agriculture served as cornerstone lesson when two students from La Paz, Mexico, participated in the first exchange of Mexican students to Colorado since the 2015 establishment of the CSU Todos Santos Center in Baja California Sur.
In January, a group of 16 students traveled to Todos Santos, Mexico for wildlife conservation course FW 382 through the Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology. Located at the base of the foothills of the Sierra de La Laguna Mountains, on the Pacific Coast of Baja California Sur, Todos Santos is home to many endemic species, creating a unique learning environment for students.
Gaby Ocádiz, a CSU alumna who earned a Masters degree in Music Education, shares her experience about leading a unique theater program at the CSU Todos Santos Center in Baja California Sur, Mexico to bring together young students from Colorado and Mexico for a common goal.
Natasha Bolourirad, a student in College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, shares her experience at the CSU Center at Todos Santos - in her own words.
Colorado State University students and faculty host an annual bicultural children's theater with nearly 50 students from California Baja Sur, Mexico and Colorado, aged 7-12. The program represents educational and cultural exchange between Mexico and the United States and created opportunities for learning, creativity, and confidence building.


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Portrait of Prince Kurakin, V. L. Borovikovsky – description
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Portrait of Prince Alexander Borisovich Kurakin – Borovikovsky. Canvas, oil. Two hundred and fifty nine x 100 70 5 cm
Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky is a recognizable and universally recognized master of portraits at the imperial courts of Catherine the Great and Paul I. His writing style is light, airy, in pleasant palettes. The whole Russian nobility since then, dignitaries and their families have longed to be impressed for posterity specifically at Borovikovsky.
"Portrait of Prince A. B. Kurakin", painted in one thousand eight hundred and one years, is a classic since then, a role model, a masterpiece of portraiture. And not only thanks to the impressive dimensions of the canvas, but, mainly, on the mastery of execution.
Municipal leader Kurakin Alexander Borisovich is depicted in a ceremonial production portrait, widespread in the eighteenth century.
The face of Prince Kurakin gives him a huge lover of luxury and pleasures, a condescending look – knowing for himself the value of a wealthy aristocrat. Borovikovsky introduced the prince in all his own splendor, in the literal and figurative sense. At court, he was even called "our diamond prince."
And these words were not unfounded. A competent and lucky diplomat, prominent figure, vice chancellor, chief-stalmeister, senator, a man who deserved and was appreciated by the monarchs. Accordingly, brilliant merit for the service, which you won't even fit on his chest, a secured camisole embroidered with gold, expensive ribbons, even shoes crowned with stones, his whole image makes him feel luxurious and magnificent. Everything that the creator depicted on the canvas behind Kurakin also has its own meaning.
Nearby on the armchair a cloak was discarded carelessly, with the golden regalia sewn with the Order of the Knights of Malta, on the other side of the window you can see the Mikhailovsky Palace.
To the right on a table covered with velvet, emphasizing the importance of Kurakin as a municipal spouse, the creator depicts papers, a pen and an inkwell. Above this stands a bust of snow-white marble from the ruler of Paul I.
The theme dedicated to Paul I in the picture is also not easy. The fact is that in childhood Kurakin and the majestic Prince Pavel Petrovich were brought up together, under the supervision and mentorship of Uncle Kurakin – Panin Nikita Ivanovich. And, of course, children's attachments grew into completely friendly affairs.
Naturally, Borovikovsky managed to fit the ruler into the canvas: both the beloved residence of Paul I – the Mikhailovsky Palace, and the mantle, because Paul was the Great Master of the Order of the Maltese, and a bust the size of almost the size of Kurakin himself.
Looking at the canvas, the artist's idea becomes clear – to show a comfortable, influential at the court, an authoritative, high-ranking nobleman. For this, the entire surrounding entourage, details of the palace interior, are used. Indeed, such a recognizable municipal person simply cannot look anywhere even more stately than in the walls of the palace."


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The value of variables may change over time as a computer program runs.
When we say something like X = X+1 we are acknowledging the advance of time.
A mathematician might say X' = X+1 so as to preserve the traditional meaning of equality.
Some computer languages use symbols like := or <- in place of = so as to avoid the conflict with mathematical notation.
Some computer languages let you bind a value to a name only once. In such a language you could say X = 2+1 or Y = X+1 but not X = X+1
The value of a variable at some point in time is called its state. The value of all variables taken together (including some hidden variables) is the state of the program.
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Amazon.com Announces Fourth Quarter Results
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced financial results for its fourth quarter ended December 31, 2021.
- Operating cash flow decreased 30% to $46.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with $66.1 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2020.
- Free cash flow decreased to an outflow of $9.1 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $31.0 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2020.
- Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $20.4 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $20.3 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2020.
- Free cash flow less equipment finance leases and principal repayments of all other finance leases and financing obligations decreased to an outflow of $14.3 billion for the trailing twelve months, compared with an inflow of $21.4 billion for the trailing twelve months ended December 31, 2020.
- Common shares outstanding plus shares underlying stock-based awards totaled 523 million on December 31, 2021, compared with 518 million one year ago.
Fourth Quarter 2021
- Net sales increased 9% to $137.4 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $125.6 billion in fourth quarter 2020. Excluding the $1.3 billion unfavorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the quarter, net sales increased 10% compared with fourth quarter 2020.
- Operating income decreased to $3.5 billion in the fourth quarter, compared with $6.9 billion in fourth quarter 2020.
- Net income increased to $14.3 billion in the fourth quarter, or $27.75 per diluted share, compared with $7.2 billion, or $14.09 per diluted share, in fourth quarter 2020. Fourth quarter 2021 net income includes a pre-tax valuation gain of $11.8 billion included in non-operating income from our common stock investment in Rivian Automotive, Inc., which completed an initial public offering in November.
Full Year 2021
- Net sales increased 22% to $469.8 billion, compared with $386.1 billion in 2020. Excluding the $3.8 billion favorable impact from year-over-year changes in foreign exchange rates throughout the year, net sales increased 21% compared with 2020.
- Operating income increased to $24.9 billion, compared with operating income of $22.9 billion in 2020.
- Net income increased $33.4 billion, or $64.81 per diluted share, compared with net income of $21.3 billion, or $41.83 per diluted share, in 2020.
"A big thank you to employees across Amazon who overcame another quarter of COVID-related challenges and delivered for customers this holiday season. Given the extraordinary growth we saw in 2020 when customers predominantly stayed home, and the fact that we've continued to grow on top of that in 2021, our Retail teammates have effectively operated in peak mode for almost two years. It's been a tremendous effort, and I'm appreciative and proud of how hard our teams have worked to serve customers," said Andy Jassy, Amazon CEO. "As expected over the holidays, we saw higher costs driven by labor supply shortages and inflationary pressures, and these issues persisted into the first quarter due to Omicron. Despite these short-term challenges, we continue to feel optimistic and excited about the business as we emerge from the pandemic. When you combine how we're staffing and scaling our fulfillment network to bring even faster delivery to more customers, the extraordinary growth of AWS with 40% year-over-year growth (and now a $71 billion revenue run rate), the addition of marquee new entertainment like The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and Thursday Night Football, and a plethora of new capabilities that we're building in areas like Alexa, Ring, Grocery, Pharmacy, Amazon Care, Kuiper, and Zoox, there's a lot to look forward to in the months and years ahead."
Amazon also continues to invest heavily in Prime. In the last few years, Amazon has added more product selection available with fast, free, unlimited Prime shipping; more exclusive deals and discounts; and more high-quality digital entertainment, including TV, movies, music, and books. Since 2018, Prime Video has tripled the number of Amazon Originals, rolling out new series and movies like The Boys, The Wheel of Time, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, The Underground Railroad, Sound of Metal, Coming 2 America, The Tomorrow War, and Being the Ricardos. This September, Prime Video will release the highly anticipated The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power and become the exclusive home of Thursday Night Football as part of a historic 11-year agreement with the National Football League (NFL). Since 2018 in the U.S., availability of Free Same-Day Delivery has expanded from 48 metropolitan areas to more than 90, items available for Prime free shipping have increased over 50%, and members have saved billions of dollars shopping Prime Day. This is all on top of new program benefits like prescription savings and fast, free delivery from Amazon Pharmacy and the continually growing Amazon Music for Prime members, Prime Reading, and Prime Gaming. With the continued expansion of Prime member benefits as well as the rise in wages and transportation costs, Amazon will increase the price of a Prime membership in the U.S., with the monthly fee going from $12.99 to $14.99, and the annual membership from $119 to $139. This is the first time Amazon has raised the price of Prime since 2018. For new Prime members, the price change will go into effect on February 18, 2022, and for current Prime members, the new price will apply after March 25, 2022, on the date of their next renewal.
- Amazon had its biggest-ever Black Friday to Cyber Monday holiday shopping weekend, with apparel, beauty, home, and toys among the top-selling categories. During the holiday season, third-party sellers—most of which are small and medium-sized businesses—achieved record worldwide sales in Amazon's store. More than 130,000 third-party sellers worldwide surpassed $100,000 in sales on Amazon, and between Black Friday and Christmas, U.S.-based third-party sellers sold an average of 11,500 products per minute. In addition, Amazon India's month-long Great Indian Festival sales event was the biggest shopping celebration ever for sellers and brand partners on Amazon.in, with nearly 30,000 sellers surpassing $100,000 in sales.
- Prime members are taking advantage of program benefits in record numbers. In 2021, members in the U.S. received more than 6 billion free deliveries, and over 200 million Prime members worldwide streamed shows and movies.
- Amazon Style, Amazon's first-ever physical store for apparel, will open this year at The Americana at Brand, a top shopping destination in greater Los Angeles. Amazon Style is built around personalization and innovation. It uses machine learning algorithms to produce tailored recommendations in real time as customers shop, making it easier than ever to discover new looks. At Amazon Style, customers will be able to have items sent to a fitting room with the tap of a button in the Amazon app and continue shopping from their fitting room without having to leave.
- The first Starbucks Pickup with Amazon Go store opened in New York City. With this new store concept, customers can order a handcrafted Starbucks beverage or food item for pickup through the Starbucks app and grab food items from the Amazon Go market, all in one convenient location without having to wait in line to pay. Starbucks and Amazon Go plan to open two more stores in 2022, with the next location planned for The New York Times Building in New York City.
- UK grocer Sainsbury's opened SmartShop Pick & Go, a Just Walk Out technology-enabled convenience store in Holborn Circus, London. The store marked the first time Amazon's Just Walk Out technology launched in a third-party customer store internationally. It was also the first time Amazon retrofitted a third-party retail store with Just Walk Out technology, meaning the store uses Sainsbury's existing fixtures and fittings with Amazon's technology.
- For the second year in a row, the Retailer Preference Index—a report from research firm dunnhumby based on insights from 10,000 shoppers on 57 grocers in the U.S.—ranked Amazon as the best overall grocery retailer. Amazon was recognized for offering customers consistently low prices, convenience, and great selection on a wide variety of grocery items sold on Amazon.com.
- Amazon partnered with Affirm to offer customers even more ways to pay on Amazon. Customers in the U.S. now have the flexibility to split the total cost of eligible purchases of $50 or more into monthly payments at checkout with no late or hidden fees.
- Amazon announced that later this year, more than 80 million Venmo users in the U.S. will have the option to pay with PayPal-owned Venmo in Amazon's online stores using their linked bank account or Venmo balance.
- Amazon continues to invest in offering Prime members around the world same-day delivery options, including Free Same-Day Delivery, where Prime members can receive their order the same day they ordered it, and Faster Same-Day Delivery, where Prime members can receive their order in as fast as five hours. Free Same-Day Delivery is now available in more than 90 metro areas in the U.S. with the addition of Fort Collins, Colorado, and Provo, Utah; in 58 metro areas in Europe; and in Tokyo, Japan. Faster Same-Day Delivery is now available in 24 metro areas in the U.S., with new launches in the past quarter in Austin, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Indianapolis, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, San Antonio, and San Diego.
- Amazon published its largest ever Holiday Fashion print lookbook, which was sent to millions of Prime members offering more than 1,000 items to choose from for their holiday shopping. Prime members in the U.S. who received the lookbook were able to browse a curated selection of fashion gifts and use their phone to shop items by scanning a QR code.
- The Wheel of Time, starring Rosamund Pike, ranked No. 1 in Nielsen's rankings of streaming series the week of its premiere, with customers viewing more than 1 billion minutes of the series across its first three episodes. Additional Prime Video series releases included the new comedy Harlem, the adult animated comedy Fairfax, and the final season of the sci-fi fan favorite The Expanse. Prime Video also announced that the first season of Reacher, a new series based on the international best-selling book Killing Floor by Lee Child, will be released on February 4, and that Diabolical, an animated spinoff of the global hit series The Boys, is set to premiere in 2022.
- The critically acclaimed and highly anticipated Prime Video original film Being the Ricardos, starring Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem and directed by Aaron Sorkin, premiered in theaters and on Prime Video; The Tender Bar, starring Ben Affleck and directed by George Clooney, premiered in theaters and on Prime Video; and the fourth and final installment of the family-favorite franchise Hotel Transylvania: Transformania, featuring the vocal talents of Selena Gomez and Andy Samberg, premiered on Prime Video.
- Prime Video continues to garner significant awards recognition for its original series and movies. Being the Ricardos was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Awards (female actor in a leading role Nicole Kidman and male actor in a leading role Javier Bardem) and three Critics Choice Awards (lead actress Nicole Kidman, supporting actor J.K. Simmons, and original screenplay Aaron Sorkin). The Tender Bar was nominated for a SAG Award (male actor in a supporting role Ben Affleck). A Hero, the foreign language feature from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi, was nominated for a Critics Choice Award (foreign language film) and shortlisted for the Academy Awards (international feature). The Underground Railroad, which earned seven Emmy nominations in 2021, was nominated for three Critics Choice Awards (limited series, lead actress Thuso Mbedu, and supporting actor William Jackson Harper) and two Independent Spirit Awards (new scripted series and female performer Thuso Mbedu).
- The fourth quarter marked Prime Video's strongest viewership for live sports globally. The 2021-2022 Thursday Night Football season streaming on Prime Video and Twitch delivered the highest average minute audience, a measurement of the average number of devices streaming Thursday Night Football at any given minute during the live game, since Amazon acquired shared rights in 2017. In the UK, the Manchester United vs. Arsenal soccer game on December 2, 2021, became the most-watched Premier League match ever on the service, with an estimated viewership of more than 4 million. Plus, millions of rugby fans tuned in to the Autumn Nations Series, the first full competitive international rugby union series featuring the top Northern and Southern Hemisphere teams since 2019. In India, Prime Video made its first foray into live sports, streaming cricket matches between New Zealand and Bangladesh.
- Prime Video debuted 28 local originals internationally, including Maradona: Blessed Dream (Argentina), Burning (Australia), Inside Edge Season 3 (India), and The Ferragnez – The Series (Italy). New locally produced series and movies launched in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, and the UK.
- IMDb TV launched Judy Justice, starring the Honorable Judy Sheindlin, a retired judge of the Manhattan Family Court and a TV judge for over 25 years. The series marked Amazon Studios' largest-ever episode order for an original series with 120 episodes, and it is the first series to offer audiences a daily release cadence.
- Amazon Music presented music icon Ye's first headlining concert in five years, with special guest Drake, exclusively on the Amazon Music Twitch Channel, Prime Video, and the Amazon Music app. During the show, customers in the U.S. could preorder a range of limited-edition merchandise created by Ye and fashion designer Demna exclusively in the Amazon Fashion store and in the Amazon Music app.
- The Blippi's Treehouse series debuted exclusively on Amazon Kids+ in Canada, the UK, and the U.S., bringing one of the world's most popular kid's characters to Amazon's kids and family subscription service.
Devices and Services
- Amazon and Stellantis announced a series of global, multi-year agreements that will introduce new connected experiences across a portfolio of 14 iconic brands, including Chrysler, Dodge, Fiat, Jeep, and Peugeot. As part of the collaboration, Amazon will deliver software for Stellantis' new digital cabin platform, STLA SmartCockpit, in millions of vehicles over the next decade.
- Amazon announced it has now sold more than 150 million Fire TV devices worldwide since launching the device in 2014. Amazon introduced a new in-vehicle experience for passengers to use Alexa or on-screen touch controls to access more than 1 million TV episodes and movies on Fire TV in the U.S. Fire TV will also be built into BMW's new 31-inch Theatre Screen for rear-seat passengers.
- Amazon announced a collaboration with Lockheed Martin and Cisco that will send Alexa into space as a part of Artemis I, the first of several NASA missions that will land the first woman and the first person of color on the Moon. Alexa will join the upcoming mission as a part of Callisto, a technology-demonstration payload embedded into NASA's Orion spacecraft.
- Amazon launched new features to make Alexa more proactive, conversational, and personal. Customers can now teach Alexa their preferences, such as for food and sports, that Alexa will remember when recommending recipes, local restaurants, and sports scores. Alexa can also start a Routine after detecting activities. For example, if Alexa detects a beeping washing machine or the sound of running water, Alexa can alert customers that the laundry is done or to turn off the faucet. Customers using the Echo Show 10 can also enable Conversation Mode for a more natural, back-and-forth interaction with Alexa without needing to repeat the Alexa wake word.
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|Disable custom icons by default
|[Applications] amarok
|Christian Nitschkowski <christian.nitschkowski>
|Amarok Developers <amarok-bugs-dist>
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Description Christian Nitschkowski 2006-04-10 17:17:08 UTC
Version: 1.4.0 Beta 3 (using KDE KDE 3.5.2) Installed from: SuSE RPMs OS: Linux After I upgraded to amaroK 1.4b3 I found that you now use custom icons for the player controls. I think those icons look nice when used with KDE's default color scheme. As I don't use the default color scheme, they look out of place there. I think they should be removed in favor of the usual player-control icons provided by the current users' icon theme. Interface consistency is a very important reason to use KDE for me, and I think others as well. With using custom icons for standard tasks in applications you work against this concept. This makes other OSes and desktop environments cluttered and hard to use. I'd like to thank you for developing this otherwise great piece of software.
Comment 1 Christian Nitschkowski 2006-04-10 17:19:41 UTC
I found that you can switch back to the system icon theme. Very good decision, but nonetheless I'd suggest you make the system icon theme the default setting and your custom icon theme the optional one. In addition, I'd suggest to move this option to the Appearance-Tab.
Comment 2 Mark Kretschmann 2006-04-10 17:36:04 UTC
As you wrote, there is an option for disabling the theme. So we can close this report. As for changing the default setting, there are no plans to do this, sorry.
Comment 3 Jakob Petsovits 2006-04-10 19:56:46 UTC
I would certainly like you to reconsider this decision, and I urge you to get advice from the KDE Usability Team in order to find out if custom icons as default are a good idea. In usability, there are (amongst others) two rules: 1. The user is always right 2. The user is not always right So, I understand that you may dislike my opposition and apply point 2., because you may also be right with custom icons by default. You may also be wrong and lose your good decision-making ability for artwork that is crafted especially for you. So, let's find out and ask the usability experts.
Comment 4 jos poortvliet 2006-04-10 20:48:21 UTC
i'd like to add my votes here. tough i like the new icons, i don't think they should be on by default.
Comment 5 Gilles Grégoire 2006-04-10 21:06:43 UTC
I agree with Jos. I think it's a good thing to be able to change the icons, but I really like amarok becaus of the consistency. I think system icons should be default. Anyway, thank you very much for this wonderfull software.
Comment 6 Teemu Rytilahti 2006-04-10 21:17:41 UTC
Wouldn't it be possible to get those custom icons to kdelibs and thus make whole KDE better or is there something why this shouldn't be done? IMHO amaroK shouldn't differ per default a lot from the user's own appearance preferences, but sure it'd be nice to include those anyway...
Comment 7 Christian Nitschkowski 2006-04-10 21:31:58 UTC
As there are different opinions on this and already 70 votes in a few hours, I don't think this bug should be closed. Maybe the problem has changed from "I'm missing something" to "My setting isn't the default", but the problem is still there. I ask you to reconsider your decision to close this bug and get into discussion with KDE's usability people. The problem I see with your decision to use custom icons is that it might happen that other applications/projects will follow your decision so we would loose our consistent desktop that seperates us from the others.
Comment 8 Ian Monroe 2006-04-10 22:19:53 UTC
No one put in the reasoning for the change in this report yet, so I guess I will. Previously, if someone is using an incomplete icon theme that clashes with amaroK's custom icons (eg. the podcast or collection icons) then there is an inconsistency in style within the app itself. So it was a cost-benefit analysis of having amaroK possibly clash with other KDE apps versus amaroK clashing with itself. Really KDE icon themes in general are probably just bad idea, since very few themes provide 100% of the icons needed. But KDE has them, distros use them, so amaroK supplying all its own icons _by default_ will work around the issue.
Comment 9 Jakob Petsovits 2006-04-10 22:28:22 UTC
Ah well, but following your reasons here, I see one main drawback: - Before you changed it, the defaults were consistent, both system- and application-wide - After you changed it, the defaults are only consistent within the app - If you really care for iconsets different than the default, you may do them a favour by letting them theme your icons by default Ok, that are three points, but they're all different views of one issue. So, will you contact the usability people or do you want to leave them out?
Comment 10 Ian Monroe 2006-04-10 23:45:06 UTC
responding to your three points... *Not all distros use crystal as default *Correct *We can neither forbid nor require KDE icon themes to have complete coverage of all our icons (I think you just misunderstand how icon themes work on this point.) The icons have had publicity on the dot, planetkde etc. I don't know if we've talked to "usability people" but discussion has already occured with the wider KDE community.
Comment 11 Jakob Petsovits 2006-04-10 23:57:12 UTC
> I don't know if we've talked to "usability people" but discussion > has already occured with the wider KDE community. In fact, I didn't mean usability wannabies like those anonymous cowards on the dot or me, but rather the official KDE usability team (on http://usability.kde.org/) who are actually researching and evaluating such issues by professional means. As opposed to most users and developers, those people have the necessary background, expertise and methods to give an objective review about planned or already implemented features. kdepim and others have already had successful collaborations with them, maybe amaroK should try the same (and not necessarily restricted to this icon issue).
Comment 12 Jakob Petsovits 2006-04-11 00:18:05 UTC
oh right, i forgot to comment on the other answers: > *Not all distros use crystal as default Most distros do, and the ones changing the defaults shouldn't have problems to change amaroK defaults too. In my opinion, you shouldn't punish the majority for deviations of a minority, and by making a few configurations better, you make many worse than they are now. > *We can neither forbid nor require KDE icon themes to have complete coverage of all our icons (I think you just misunderstand how icon themes work on this point.) As an icon theme maintainer, I think I do understand how icon themes work on this point. It's just when I get a custom icon theme from kde-look.org, do I want a) to get that icon theme applied (though it might be a bit incomplete), or b) to have that icon theme ignored by one app (by default) for sake of application-wide, but not system-wide consistency? And I really think that users that undertake the effort to get and install a custom icon theme want to have that theme applied. If every app ignored it by default, what sense would icon themes make anyways? It is my personal impression that this decision was very much based on short-sighted visual appeals rather than consistency and usability issues, and that the amaroK devs try to justify it with hindsight. I might be wrong though. In any case I want to note that I don't oppose this decision because I'm a HIG zealot or blind aseigo follower, but because I love amaroK and don't want to see it tearing apart from the rest of the desktop, and stimulating other apps to follow this (in my opinion fatal) route.
Comment 13 Martin Ellis 2006-04-11 00:53:39 UTC
On Monday 10 April 2006 23:18, Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> It is my personal impression that this decision was very much based
> on short-sighted visual appeals rather than consistency and
> usability issues, and that the amaroK devs try to justify it with
> hindsight.
Can anyone explain how to use the proper icon set? The new version
just looks weird, especially on the menu on the left of the window.
I can't see it under Settings->Configure Amarok->Appearance. Do I
have a broken installation? I'm using the Kubuntu packages.
Comment 14 Christian Nitschkowski 2006-04-11 01:09:33 UTC
@Martin: It's kinda off-topic, but anyway, here we go. It's last option in Configure Amarok->General. I don't have a proper version of Amarok available at the moment, but I guess the checkbox is labeled with "Use Custom Icon Theme".
Comment 15 Jakob Petsovits 2006-04-11 01:12:27 UTC
(Renamed the bug in order to better reflect its contents, and added version info for it.)
Comment 16 James Richard Tyrer 2006-04-11 05:33:12 UTC
Re: Comment #7 I agree that this should not be closed. It is your bug so you should be able to reopen it, but I will do it for you. The way that this is done is seriously strange. The special Amarok icons which appear to be Crystal style are installed as HiColor and what appear to be HiColor icons are installed as CrystalSVG. I don't get it! Look in "$KDEDIR/share/apps/icons/" at: "player_playlist_2.png" & "amarok_playlist.png". Which is HiColor and which is Crystal? This in addition to the question of whether an app should install its own icons if they duplicate the functions of global themed icons. If so, these should be installed according to their style. Generic as HiColor and blue and fuzzy (:-) well they really are blue and fuzzy! :-D) as Crystal. IAC, I leave this to the HIC and/or TWG to figure out -- I will leave the bug open till they do.
Comment 17 A T Somers 2006-04-11 07:56:18 UTC
I strongly agree with the call to follow the KDE standard by default. I like Amarok, but I mostly liked it because it looked like a real application, not like some kind of hard to use toy. Now, it gets more and more a non-standard app, providing it's own icons, a flashing highlight in the playlist (Where do I turn that monsterous thing off?!), superfluous highlighting tabs... I'm sorry. I like my applications to work and look predictable. If they can look nice and shiny at the same time, nice, but not at the sacrifice of consistency within the desktop please. Certainly not by default.
Comment 18 Jakob Petsovits 2006-04-11 10:25:20 UTC
> IAC, I leave this to the HIC and/or TWG to figure out --
> I will leave the bug open till they do.
To be fair: as amaroK is in extragear and not one of the core modules, I don't know if this decision is up to the TWG to decide, I still regard it as responsibility of the amaroK devs. Being able to take advice is another thing, let's see if the devs will be able to do that (after all, after one day the bug is already the 12th of open bugs, and regarding the number of votes and the controversy I agree that this bug should not be closed at this time).
Comment 19 Paul Giannaros 2006-04-11 23:41:39 UTC
I'd like to concur with many of the above statements. I like the icons and fully intend to use them as they will look good with my current colour and icon theme, but being having volatile taste in icon/colour themes will mean that i'll have to make the change in the amaroK settings in the future. It's not that I can't be bothered to change the settings to enable default icons, it's that if every application took this path I would have to change them for _each_ _application_ - diminishing one of KDE's finer points (easy themeing). I think you're being fairly pompous in converging from the standard - doubly so after so much controversy has been generated by so many knowledgeable KDE hackers. Please reconsider your decision to make these icons switched on by default. Thanks.
Comment 20 Christian Loose 2006-04-18 11:45:33 UTC
-20 votes from me. I like the new custom icons and as long as one can revert to the default icon set it's okay.
Comment 21 James Richard Tyrer 2006-04-19 00:39:36 UTC
Re: Comment #18 What needs to be decided is what the requirement for being a KDE application are. The KDE libraries are GPL so there can be no additional requirements for using them. But, there should be requirements for being certified as a KDE application and these should be compliance with the KDE UI Guidelines. This should incluse use of styles, menu configuration, shortcut keys, as well as icon themes. To me, this is obvious, but one developer told me that he read the KDE Guidelines once and never looked at them again.
Comment 22 jos poortvliet 2006-04-19 10:02:44 UTC
i think Tyrer is right. amaroK 2.x might very well be part of KDE 4.x, given it is likely KDE 4.x will allow official KDE apps an independent release schedule.
Comment 23 Alexandre Oliveira 2006-04-20 05:29:40 UTC
Well, it's not a bug, since it was intended to work that way.
Comment 24 Jakob Petsovits 2006-04-21 17:43:19 UTC
> Well, it's not a bug, since it was intended to work that way.
It is a bug, since something they have implemented is behaving wrongly. (At least, according to currently 647 votes.) I think the wishlist status is for things that are not yet included in the application.
Comment 25 Alexandre Oliveira 2006-04-21 18:49:29 UTC
> It is a bug, since something they have implemented is behaving wrongly
It is behaving exactly as they intended, so it's a wish. Number of votes is irrelevant to decide if something is a bug or a wish.
For amaroK, a bug is when something doesn't work as intended. Wishlists are requests to change the behaviour or implement new stuff.
Comment 26 Christian Nitschkowski 2006-04-22 11:26:16 UTC
If there is a misbehaviour I think it is a bug, wether it was intended or not. But it won't make any difference to this discussion if it's a bug or a wishlist item. I'd like to see someone from KDE's usability people take a look at this before amarok 1.4 gets released. I'll grep through the mailing-list of kde-usability to see if it was discussed there already and contact the list if they don't know yet about this bugreport.
Comment 27 jos poortvliet 2006-04-22 23:48:40 UTC
by the way, i'd like to stress this is NOT a fight from the amaroK users to get rid of the new icon theme. i think the icons used to 'fill the blanks' in the standard KDE themes are great. also, personally i like the new icons. and fourth, this is not such an extremely important thing - its just the icons. on the other hand, we (if i may speak for the others here) do think it would be nice if those users, which changed their global icon theme, would see it reflected in amaroK. the current icons don't look very strange with crystal-like icons, but weird if you use for example the slick icon set. so - let me propose a middle way. if an user changes his global icon theme, let amaroK show the icons THE USER choose (of course, complete the icons he doesn't have in his theme with the amaroK ones). if the user did NOT set a custom icon theme, show the brand new amaroK icons. after all, its not like users won't understand them or get confused ;-) how about that?
Comment 28 James Richard Tyrer 2006-04-23 00:39:20 UTC
Re: Comment #27: I don't see any problem with any app having custom icons as long as they are not enabled by default. However, an app needs to, at the minimum, provide all of the icons it needs in the HiColor style and optionally in whatever other style(s) that the developer wants. Currently, it is expected that in addition to HiColor, that CrystalSVG icons (the current default theme) be provided. This will probably change with KDE4 as the default icons theme is changing to Oxygen. In both HiColor and CrystalSVG, if the icons are new work, then SVGZ files should be provided in addition to 16x16 and 22x22 PNGs (larger PNGs can be provided at the option of the artist but the two small sizes are required). The PNGs must be hand optimized not just rendered with The GIMP or InkScape. So, AmaroK should not use its custom icons to "fill in"; the original purpose of HiColor was to fill in ("fallback" theme), but now that GNOME uses it as a theme, it is also used as a theme. I also note that that flashing liquid style status indicator should also not be enabled by default. Flashing should be configurable (PLEASE! :-) it drives me nuts) and the default style should be the user's chosen widget style. The three things needed in a desktop are: consistency, consistency, and consistency. :-D So, at least for the default settings, things should be consistent if possible.
Comment 29 Aaron J. Seigo 2006-04-23 16:14:20 UTC
i've discussed this before on irc and the amaroK blog, but i may as well add my input here as well so it's recorded here as well ... having this turned on by default diminishes consistency for -most- people. the default should be to use the system icons and certainly makes amaroK less integrated with the rest of the desktop which is a huge part of the reason people use KDE to begin with. yes, i understand the issue with icon themes and mismatched icons. i also understand that that is not the default KDE set up and therefore this setting is optimized for the -minority- of users who use KDE in a non-default setup. if they can figure out how to change their icon theme, they can change this. amaroK could turn these icons on by default if the icon theme is not the default theme though even that has problems as the icon theme may only replace, for instance, the file management related icons and use crystal for the rest (making the icon change in amaroK superfluous). as it is ... from a usability perspective, the default setting is currently wrong. having the feature there as an option is fine and justfiable, but the default needs to be rethought.
Comment 30 Johannes Schaub 2006-04-23 16:32:16 UTC
i like the flashing liquid style alot. i would even vote for a liquid style of the normal selection of the playlist, which wouldn't flash and have a bit different color pitch then to indicate that it isn't currently playing but only selected. however, liquid selection style should be enabled by default and configurable so it can be disabled. as for the icons, the crystal icon maker have had an idea to include amaroks custom icons into his theme and let amarok use the system icons. if the user then choose crystal icons, then amarok would use its shiney custom icons which would match the crystal icon set. otherwise, if the user selected another icon style for KDE, however, amarok would have to use those icons. :)
Comment 31 Jakob Petsovits 2006-04-23 17:49:31 UTC
Please keep the flashing liquid style status indicator out of this bug. It may be an issue, but if so there should be an own bug for it, this one is about the custom icons.
Comment 32 James Richard Tyrer 2006-04-23 21:57:38 UTC
Re: Comments 30 & 31: Actually this is the same issue. amaroK does not use the KDE style defaults. AJS is correct that this should not be the default behavior, but can be a user configurable option. We have to consider how the supposedly integrated KDE DeskTop would look if every KDE application had its own icon and widget styles.
Comment 33 Martin Aumueller 2006-04-23 22:15:58 UTC
Re: Comments 30 & 31 & 32 The system listview selection style is used for marking selected songs in amaroK's playlist. But the song currently being played is different from a selected song (e.g. you could remove a selected song from the playlist by pressing Delete). As it is now, you can even distinguish if the current song is selected or not. Thus, the liquid style indicator for the current song does make a lot sense from a usability perspective: use different indicators for different things. (If it has to be animated, is a different matter, though.) But I clearly have to agree with #31: this should be discussed as a different bug.
Comment 34 Seb Ruiz 2006-05-28 13:25:51 UTC
Icons are disabled by default. you don't need to use them. Hence, this report is invalid. Closing. DO NOT REOPEN.
Comment 35 Jakob Petsovits 2006-05-28 13:30:37 UTC
Oh, wow. That's awesome. I think that makes for a good incentive for me to finish the amaroK icons in Lila, and we're all good friends again, right? :)
Comment 36 James Richard Tyrer 2006-05-28 18:10:32 UTC
Re: Comment #34 If this has been fixed, shouldn't the report be tagred as: RESOLVED FIXED?
Comment 37 jos poortvliet 2006-05-29 10:49:28 UTC
love, seb ;-)
Comment 38 Paul Giannaros 2006-05-31 17:31:48 UTC
RESOLVED INVALID? C'mon, it was fixed! This is getting silly.
Comment 39 Jakob Petsovits 2006-05-31 18:22:25 UTC
> RESOLVED INVALID? C'mon, it was fixed! This is getting silly.
Really, it doesn't matter as long as it's fixed.
Let's think about the correct resolution after we have to reopen it for 1.4.1 when they have the complete custom icon set together and re-enable it again ;-)
Till then, I'd like to have no more comments here, as everything's ok now.
Comment 40 Andre Orwell 2006-06-02 05:00:15 UTC
Perhaps this whole discussion should have been moved to the KDE wish list. Providing a way for applications to have complete and consistent icon sets when the current default icon set doesn't provide all of the icons it requires is more of a KDE issue than an amaroK one. It surely effects many applications. Sorry - no intention to reopen this particular flame but I don't think the issue will go away. Where should this wish *really* be posted?
Comment 41 Malte Doersam 2006-06-19 00:33:00 UTC
Regression activity: http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/extragear/multimedia/amarok/src/amarokcore/amarok.kcfg?r1=550786&r2=550787 Please reopen this bug.
Comment 42 Jakob Petsovits 2006-06-19 00:43:48 UTC
Well, it was clear they would re-enable them. Btw, I'm still waiting for someone of the kde-usability team to comment in favour of this decision. (As opposed to Thomas Zander and Aaron Seigo, who already expressed their views in opposition of it.)
Comment 43 Thomas Zander 2006-06-19 22:51:18 UTC
The proper way to fix this consists of two steps; 1) make a kde-wide naming scheme for media-icons. This includes action/media_forward for example. To make it a default iconname means amarok can use the kde-wide default icons since a theme like Oxygen will ship them and other themes can provide them as well. Using 'media' instead of 'amarok' in the names will mean other applications can benefit from these icon as well. This step is set in motion already. The artists have told me they will include these icons in Oxygen. 2) the second step is to enhance the icon-loading a little bit for KDE4 to make sure that if actions/media_forward is not found KIconLoader will try to search for actions/forward next. _inside the same theme_! This part allows applications like amarok to use the default without using problematic tings like their own icon name-space and config settings.
Comment 44 Janet 2006-07-09 20:23:47 UTC
IMHO all KDE apps should use one iconset (default or user defined) so that all applications look consistent. If the icons the application needs are not in the icon theme the user uses I expect the application (in this case amaroK) to partly use own replacement icons. Thus the main part of the application (amaroK) looks consistent to the rest of the KDE applications. For me that is more important than a default consistent look inside the program itself. BTW: The option "user definded icon theme" really does mean "amaroK maintainers definded icon theme", doesn't it? "User defined" icon theme IMHO is the one the user chose as KDE icon theme. Oh - and regarding consistency in amaroK itself: your icon theme isn't complete: help and quit use the icons of the KDE theme, also do listview and treeview in the collection tab and the files, folders and navigation buttons in the files tab, the icon on the search field button and the amarok icon on the menu button.
Comment 45 Jakob Petsovits 2006-07-09 21:56:46 UTC
(Updating version info from 1.4-beta3 to 1.4.1. Current vote count: 959.)
Comment 46 Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen 2006-07-19 12:05:16 UTC
The option should really read: Implement hack to map themable icons in Amarok to unthemed system icons. The thing is, the icons in Amarok are themable just fine. The reason we chose to do this is really quite simple: After six (yes, six) months of attempting to get icon artists to help us get icons made for the actions we require, we gave up finding someone who could make Crystal icons, and decided in stead to be consistent within Amarok itself, in stead of having something half-done. The option to map the icons to icons already present on the system shows you why we chose to do this: It maps to icons that exist in Crystal already, but you will notice that these icons do not represent the functionalities very well. We have tried to find the ones that make most sense, but quite frankly, there simply does not exist enough icons for this. So: This is not a custom icon theme in the classical sense - these are perfectly themable freedesktop.org-icon-theme icons. A list of the icons used in Amarok can be found on the Amarok wiki right here: http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Artist_team:Icon_List What Thomas Zander proposes above would be ideal - a system-integrated fallback mechanism so we wouldn't need the hack that Amarok currently implements, and simply do it automatically. Basically: Look for actions/amarok_next, if not there look for actions/media_next, if not there look for actions/next. It could even be made so far as to make this automatic, as in make this possible to do simply by making the icon loader accept a category. It might then look for icons in the following order: application_iconname -> category_iconname -> iconname. Sorry, that was a bit rambling, but i wanted to get it down before i forgot again ;)
Comment 47 Stefan Monov 2006-08-03 18:05:36 UTC
Re: Comment #46 A kdelibs bug has to be filed then, right? As a side note, did you (during the six months you mentioned) ask Everaldo to make you Crystal SVG-style icons?
Comment 48 Jakob Petsovits 2006-08-03 21:28:16 UTC
> As a side note, did you (during the six months you mentioned) ask Everaldo to
> make you Crystal SVG-style icons?
Not that Everaldo has much to do with upstream KDE icons, nowadays.
But the current KDE Artists team does an amazing job too :)
Comment 49 Jakob Petsovits 2008-01-07 04:04:21 UTC
Ok, here's what's new in KDE 4: * We now have media-* icons in the Oxygen icon theme, as defined by the icon naming specification (e.g. media-playback-start, media-skip-forward or media-eject) which should provide a reasonable base set for media players. Yeah, we even have a few more icons which I would like to have killed but could not do that in time, which means that other nice icons are also in the base theme and will stay there for the lifetime of KDE 4. * Plus, we also have a fallback mechanism, also as defined by the icon naming specification. For example, you could include a "media-playback-start-amarok" icon that's not so nice than the Oxygen one but more branded, and install it in the Oxygen namespace. If another theme doesn't have this icon then it will fall back to "media-playback-start", or "media-playback", or "media". (Just for demonstration purposes, reasonable themes won't have the two last ones.) Not sure if that gets you anywhere - I didn't quite get the feature request for fallbacks anyways because your custom theme was specifically designed not to change even if other themes are selected. Anyways, that's what KDE 4 provides. Personally, I hope you won't use that functionality at all and stay on pure Oxygen style by default.
Comment 50 Mark Kretschmann 2008-01-07 14:13:04 UTC
Why was this reopened? Here's the deal, and consider it the final words on this topic (no more reopening): 1) Amarok 1.x is frozen except for bugfixes. 2) In 2.x the Oxygen icons will be enabled by default.
Comment 51 Jakob Petsovits 2008-01-07 15:07:18 UTC
The reopening actually occurred more than a year ago, back when this was still a hot topic.


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Saturday, January 2, 2010 by machinehd | Discussion: OS Customization
Has anyone else noticed that as of Jan 1st, the METAR data doesn't work for most sites to retrieve weather info? Almost every site responds with a Parse error. I've R&R'd Sysmetrix thinking it may be a corrupt data file but the problem persists. I read some forums saying it's possibly the Weather Channel but Sysmetrix retrieves it's data from NOAA. Does anyone have a line of why this is happening? NOAA's weather site still uses the same 4-character METAR codes and they don't mention any changes.
Reply #1 Saturday, January 2, 2010 11:11 AM
I don't know, but I have the exact same problem, mine quit working too. Been playing with everything on my system since yesterday. Glad it's not just me. This means it must be NOAA that is goofing up something, or a windows update. Are you using winxp.
Reply #2 Saturday, January 2, 2010 11:17 AM
Since SysMetrix hasn't received an update is a couple of years this may well be the end of it. It was a nice program.
Reply #3 Saturday, January 2, 2010 11:20 AM
Hey, Yes, still using Win XP, and Windows 7 and makes no difference... there are some sites that work. Alice TX, works, but almost everywhere else gives back this parsing error.
Thnx for the quick response..
Reply #4 Saturday, January 2, 2010 11:31 AM
lol...I tried Alice, TX and mine works too...man that ain't right...I'd rather none of them work, that just pisses me off...weird problem, why would that site work and non of the others. This has become an obsession now...I am hooked, gotta find out whats going on here..lol
Reply #5 Saturday, January 2, 2010 11:40 AM
The problem seems to be with NOAA, they changed their format. If you look the report from Alice, TX is old, from Dec 24, 2009. The others with Parse errors are current. Seems the only way this is gonna get fixed is if the programmer of sysmetrix makes us a fix. Not likely since he hasn't done anything with it since 2004..lol
Reply #6 Saturday, January 2, 2010 11:49 AM
I emailed NOAA and sent the metardata.txt file as well as attached a text file with the parse error. You're like me, I won't quit until it's fixed!
Reply #7 Saturday, January 2, 2010 1:23 PM
Cool. I realize metars are the official current weather for most locations, but hadn't thought of them in 'desktop gadget' terms. I wonder if there's any that'll provide near-complete aviation forecasts? Like with TAFs, Airmets, prog charts, and the like.
Reply #9 Saturday, January 2, 2010 6:15 PM
i checked www.xymantix.com for an update to the problem to see if the programmer was aware of this. I emailed him via the link from his website. The SysMetrix site says the last update was '05 with the possibility of SysMetrix 4.0 coming out in '06. I know he hasn't worked on it in a while and most likely has other committments. Windows 7 widgets, and Yahoo widgets still work, but get their data from other sources. With any luck Decker might update the software (possible patch?). Whaddaya say? Please? I really do use SysMetrix and weather is important to me. I run my own greenhouse and am an avid gardener.
thanks in advance!
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Reply #10 Saturday, January 2, 2010 6:20 PM
Ya I thought of that, but it's not likely to happen, but worth a try. I am hanging my hat on the URL option he programmed in, gonna research maybe an alternate site for the weather info. He said for advanced users see if I can get it to work that way. Will keep you'll posted.
Reply #11 Saturday, January 2, 2010 6:23 PM
SirBedwyr: If you right click on the SysMetrix skin you are currently using, and scroll down to "Weather" and pop that menu out to "Show more information", you will (or would have) see lots more data. Not quite aviation level, but a lot more detailed info.
os1smith: I see that about the old data. Oak Harbor, WA works too but the data is from 2007! lol
Reply #12 Saturday, January 2, 2010 7:02 PM
LMAO...I put in Oak Harbor and my weather display for weather age says 834 days old....lol...maybe someone needs to look out a window or some thing and update that thing...lol
Reply #13 Saturday, January 2, 2010 7:21 PM
I have the same problem, but I think its with NOAA. I went to NOAA.gov and entered several locations near me and didn't get a weather report for any of them. Maybe they will get the problem repaired shortly.
Reply #14 Saturday, January 2, 2010 9:16 PM
Well guys it is diffinately a format change on the part of NOAA. I dig up my old METAR reports here is the last four days, I went back about 20 reports. now my sysmetrix weather worked a few days ago and you can clearly see a difference in the reports with the inclusion a few days ago of the CIG tag in the report and the inclusion of the runway info, which I think is what is giving the sysmetrix grief, because it doesn't know what to do with that new info.
You can goto the NOAA site and check out the FAQ, there is alo going to be a new HTTP site to get this info, the HTTP that sysmetrix uses as a default is going away soon. Which would not be a big deal since we can change the URL but we can't change how sysmetrix reads the data...which SUCKS.
Reply #15 Sunday, January 3, 2010 5:17 AM
That's new? Runway and extended pressure comments have been part of AWOS for years now.
Reply #16 Sunday, January 3, 2010 9:11 AM
The reports we use are the observation reports, not the full reports, as you can see they were never part of the reports we got at the old http site, I went back a good ways looking at old reports, didn't see any rwy stuff, which is probably why sysmetrix doesn't work now. The new report system is called ADDS from what I can see.
Reply #17 Sunday, January 3, 2010 12:09 PM
I love SysMetrix and all weather reporting gadgets. Weather is very important to me also, my SysMetrix quit showing the weather also. That is why I came over here to see if anyone else had the same problem. I hope it gets fixed.
Reply #18 Sunday, January 3, 2010 2:39 PM
ADDS isn't a report format, it's a digital web service for pilots: http://adds.aviationweather.gov/metars/. The METAR teletype (yes teletype) format has remained the same since the FAA switched to mostly international standards (see section 3 for code explanations): Aviation Weather Services. I'm not aware of any txt file issuance that was ever without the RMK block (and it would be irresponsible to disseminate it to pilots without the remarks block since it carries local thunderstorm activity and runway visibility amongst others). There may have been an aggregator distribution that stripped the RMK section, but as I said I'm not aware.
Reply #20 Sunday, January 3, 2010 3:26 PM
Still no reply from N. Decker through the email link on the SysMetrix home page. I seriously doubt we will hear anything. As with all good things, they were good while they lasted. I enjoyed the ability to skin the widget instead of a single weather module taking up valuable real estate on the desktop.
Actually when the METAR text file is opened there is clearly a permissions clause from Winstep. But the pointer to the METAR data comes from within the SysMetrix executable pointing to the PERL script on NOAA's web site, Unfortunately not from within the metar data text file. The line can be changed but I'm not sure if it can be saved.
os1smith: Ok keep us posted.
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