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During the past six years there has been a volume of articles written about ownership to learning, personalized learning and personalization with some saying that it should be called "personal learning". Let's stop muddying the waters with educators and embrace this one idea:
Personalized learning starts with the learner—not the curriculum, not the standards, not the test and not the adaptive learning systems that claim they are personalizing learning.
Let's also clarify what personalized learning means for the learner!
After researching and co-authoring two books* on personalized learning, consulting with numerous school districts to launch, build and sustain personalized learning environments, it is evident that the stakeholders in a school community need to come together and agree on a vision and set of beliefs about teaching and learning first. Then they need to create an actionable plan where daily instructional and learning practices empowers every child to take "ownership to learning." But before we can turn over the remote to the learner so that they can have ownership, we need to ask ourselves:
What does "ownership to learning" really mean?
Ownership to learning means that a learner is motivated, engaged and self-directed. It means they can monitor their own progress and are able to reflect on their learning based on mastery of content. In addition, the learner has the skills, knowledge and dispositions to independently direct and design their own learning experiences and is skilled in selecting and using tools, resources, strategies and a Personal Learning Networks (PLN) to support their learning. But first…
For every learner to begin to understand how they learn, we need to turn to Universal Design for Learning (UDL). UDL is a research-based set of principles based in the neurosciences to guide the design of learning environments and instruction that is accessible and effective for all. In 2012, The UDL Lens of Access, Engage and Express™ was created to empower learners to tell their story of who they are and how they learn and to inform us of the variability in the way they learn: their strengths, challenges, interests, talents, aspirations and yes, their hopes and dreams! Above all, UDL is a lens that applies to ALL learners as a means for creating personalized, learner-centered environments where each learner can develop agency. The next question is:
How can teachers support learners in understanding how they learn and help them take "ownership of their learning"?
Let's dive a little deeper into the UDL Lens of Access, Engage and Express™!
Simply, it is designed so that we see the learner in every child.
It offers key information about the learner's strengths and challenges in how they access and process information, how they engage with content and concepts and how they express what they know and understand.
The terms Access, Engage and Express™ also serves as the common language between teacher and learner where daily conversations can take place about learning with a process to identify the tools and skills that could support a challenge or enhance a strength. A Personal Learning Backpack™ of tools, apps, resources is discussed with the learner so that learning goals to acquire the skills to support their own learning can be included in A Personal Learning Plan™ (PLP) where each learner articulates an action plan and how they will demonstrate they achieved the goal. In the end, they acquire the necessary skills to support their learning and become an independent and self-directed learner, a learner with agency that has "ownership to learning". Here is just one example of a Learner Profile and Personal Learning Backpack™ (PLB) that will lead to a few learning goals for a Personal Learning Plan™ (PLP).
Let's take a look at one way the UDL Lens of Access, Engage and Express™ and the Learner Profile is being used in practice and how this one school district has turned over the remote to empower their learners to take "ownership to learning".
Stories that Empower Learners to take "Ownership to Learning"
Jason Phelps is the principal at Clyde F. Brown Elementary School where he shared how Fourth Grade Genius Hour passion projects were created from the information the learners shared about themselves when responding to Part 1 of the Learner Profile, "Who I am as a Learner". The fourth grade teachers initiated deeper and emotionally connected learning through goal setting around passion projects. Based upon the famous Google concept of "20% time", each fourth grade learner selects a personal passion topic and then uses a weekly hour and a half "personal learning time" to work on a project that would improve the school community or society in some way. In the end, learners create passion projects that result in lessons being taught by the learners on anti-bullying, learner-led advocacy and support for local homeless shelters, "adopt-an-endangered-animal" drives, and creation of "care packages" for a local children's hospital. The "personal learning time" has empowered learners to identify a purpose for learning as they take ownership through voice and choice.
Maureen Knowlton is the principal of the Millis Middle School where they use Learner Profiles to understand a learner's strengths as well as their interests, passions and aspirations. On entering a classroom in Millis Middle School, a visitor may have to search for the teacher because the learners are front and center, leading the learning! Here is just a glimpse of what you would observe: Fifth graders writing skits and creating videos following research on the Roanoke Colony and sixth graders collaborating during a Civil Rights unit to write a thirty-three page choose-your-own-adventure book entitled, Living in Segregation, which classmates now read during independent reading time. In seventh grade, learners helping one another deepen understanding of literature themes by designing interactive lessons about topics like substance abuse, social justice and mental health challenges. Similarly, eighth graders enrich curriculum with their own presentations on topics of interest such as Social Media and Conformity. Can learners own their learning? Millis teachers think so. Using the UDL Lens of Access, Engage and Express™ with a strengths-based focus to create their own Learner Profile, teachers are able to offer choices that fosters ownership to learning. You see, when learners call the plays, they can exceed teacher expectations and they might even earn a standing ovation!
Millis Public Schools in Millis, MA is an wonderful example of what can happen when you empower learners with the what, why and how of learning including their passions and interests. The focus on creating learner-centered environments where "ownership to learning" can be realized by every learner was led by an innovative leader, Superintendent Nancy Gustafson, along with her administrative team. Nancy has been a long-time believer in creating learner-centered environments using the UDL Lens and the results are found in these stories. The teachers turned the remote over to the learners where they used their strengths and passions to take "ownership to learning".
Related Blog posts:
- Empowering Learners with The Learner Profile. Post with Infographic: http://bit.ly/Learner-Profile
- Personal Learning Backpack: Empowering Learners with the UDL Lens of Access, Engage and Express.™ Post with Infographic: http://bit.ly/PLBackpack
- Personal Learning Plan: Empowering Learners to be Future Ready. Post with infographic: http://bit.ly/PersonalLearningPlan
- Learning Profiles: Stop Using Learning Styles, Start Using Learning Sciences
* Learner Profile, Personal Learning Backpack and Personal Learning Plan located in Chapter 4 of How to Personalize Learning: A Practical Guide for Getting Started and Going Deeper by Barbara Bray and Kathleen McClaskey; also co-authors of bestseller Make Learning Personal: The What, Who, Wow, Where and Why.
Personal Learning Backpack, Personal Learning Plan, The UDL Lens of Access, Engage and Express are trademarks of Kathleen McClaskey.


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Let's start the party and as any good hostess would say, stay awhile and enjoy.
- Link up - something you created, made, did, a story or tip - anything that inspires creativity.
- Feel free to grab a "homework" button and include it somewhere on your blog.
- Make someone smile by visiting their link and leave them with a comment.
- By linking your project, you are granting me permission to feature your project here on homework or via social media.
Thank you again to everyone who linked a project and to everyone who came to visit. I loved looking at all the projects and visiting your sites.

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It is the day before New Years Eve and I'm sitting here watching these stocks grind into the close like they're working for tips.
The office is empty, the phone is silent and it's a great time to reflect on 2010 – one of the most important years of my life.
When 2010 began, I was in a bad work situation and in a professional rut that seemed impossible to climb out of. I was 40 pounds overweight, attending way too many happy hours on weeknights and just generally going through a dark phase, even if I didn't realize the extent of it at that time. Writing the blog became more about escapism than anything else at a certain point during those short, cold days.
And then the Spring came and with it, my personal and professional renaissance:
♣ My daughter turned 4 and began calling me "Josh" instead of "Dad" – which is hilarious and awesome. She's going to be unstoppable.
♣ I met one of my idols in the investing business (thanks to my friend Howard and StockTwits) and was offered a job at his shop, one of the hottest asset management firms in the country.
♣ I removed myself from a horrendous place of business and left all the baggage behind in one fell swoop. I took almost every single client with me and learned a great deal about loyalty and who I could count on when it really mattered.
♣ My son turned 1 but he now eats like he's 17. Can't wait to watch him sack quarterbacks and crush fastballs.
♣ I dropped my retail brokerage business entirely and went completely fee-based. I decided I would never sell anyone anything ever again; instead, I'd be paid only for my ongoing help and advice with zero conflicts – nothing between myself and the success of my clients.
But making that leap this summer after years of dreaming about it almost killed me.
A week before Labor Day, the stress and the strain of coordination and the enormous work of tracking down and submitting forms and tracking assets landed me in the hospital. I had an NG tube up my nose and into my intestines as my digestive system had completely shut down. I spent a week not eating or drinking, being fed fluids through an IV. The thirst was way more painful than the hunger – at night I had morphine-tinged dreams of waterskiing across oceans of Gatorade and standing beneath waterfalls with my mouth open. Don't ask.
And then I was better – physically and mentally. Restored but also transformed somehow . Hungry, and not for food.
Upon my release, I decided that I was done fuckin' around. I was determined to get healthy, get my clients' accounts in perfect condition for the last half of the year and beyond and to take my blogging/commentating to the next level. And immediately, from the moment I made that decision, everything happened – my own Forbes blog, the Wall Street Journal gig, the video appearances, the TV appearances, the book offers and more. Work doesn't feel like work anymore, even when it's challenging. I feel taller, and lighter, than I have in years.
And don't even get me started on all the new friends I've made this year! One of them, James Altucher, was partly the inspiration for this post. If you guys aren't reading the stuff he's doing on his new site, you have no idea how much brilliance and intimacy you're missing – advice, market wisdom and anecdotes that will blow you away.
I have absolutely no idea what 2011 will bring, but I know that I'm headed into it in much better shape than I began 2010 on almost every level. Thanks to you all for taking the journey with me this year, tune in tomorrow for an incredible treat!


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We, the undersigned non-governmental organisations, are deeply concerned with the direction of the EU-Libya policy as outlined in the Commission Communication on the Central Mediterranean (25.01.17) and reaffirmed in the conclusions of the Malta Summit (03.02.17) and the Council Conclusions (06.02.17), aiming to stop migratory movements through Libya.
The decision to transfer the responsibility of managing migratory movements along the central Mediterranean route to Libya will neither reduce human rights abuses, nor end smuggling. Instead, it will significantly increase harm and suffering.
EU plans will exacerbate arrests and detention of migrants in Libya and increase exposure to severe human rights abuses
The UN-backed government in Tripoli has only a limited and precarious hold on power, competing with a variety of other actors. The EU itself describes Libya as 'unsafe' and systematic violence towards refugees and migrants has been widely documented. Multiple reports of human rights groups have described the grave, harrowing conditions in Libya: rape, torture, executions, and other sufferings. Our organizations have documented prolonged arbitrary detention, torture and other ill-treatment in the very centres where refugees and migrants are detained after being intercepted at sea by Libyan entities performing coastguard activities.
The Malta Declaration purports that the EU will "seek to ensure adequate reception capacities and conditions in Libya for migrants, together with UNHCR and IOM". However, in a joint statement issued ahead of the informal Summit in Malta, these organisations have stated that "security constraints continue to hinder our ability to deliver life-saving assistance, provide basic services to the most vulnerable and find solutions through resettlement, assisted voluntary return or self-reliance". This leaves any assurances in relation to monitoring of human rights and the improvement of detention conditions entirely empty.
Given these conditions, how can EU member states take the responsibility for containing people in Libya? European governments cannot themselves return people to Libya without breaching the international principle of non-refoulement – as people returned would be at risk of being exposed to serious human rights violations. Thus, we see that the new EU policies, which aim to enhance the Libyan authorities' ability to intercept refugees and migrants at sea and pull them back to Libya, represent a clear attempt to circumvent the EU's international obligations, in plain disregard of the harsh consequences thousands of men, women and children would be exposed to.
Funding the entities performing border control including coastguard activities in Libya will only encourage systematic arrests and detention of migrants and refugees, subjecting them to maltreatment and abuse in Libyan prisons. It will also potentially prevent those who are in fact fleeing persecution from seeking a safe haven. This approach will condemn people to further, and entirely unnecessary, suffering in direct violation of their human rights.
We would like to understand with whom the EU intends to work. How will Libyan border guards be vetted? Who will monitor these activities as many of these coastguard entities operate autonomously, with limited government control and without any judicial oversight? No accountability mechanism has been put in place for these actors.
Focusing on tackling smugglers will not prevent migration, nor provide solutions to human suffering
Sustainable investment in countries of origin, along with opening and strengthening safe and regular channels to Europe is the most efficient way to address smuggling. Development assistance should for the benefit of vulnerable populations – not be linked to migration control objectives.
The EU leaders' decision to focus almost solely on the activities of people smugglers will not reduce the need for migration. People in search of safety from war, or suffering other rights violations or lack of livelihood opportunities, will continue to try to reach Libya and leave for Europe, no matter how many smugglers are arrested. In Niger, for example, people have already started to take more dangerous routes, heading into the desert before reaching Agadez, with smuggling prices going up and more people likely to die.
The opening and strengthening of safe and regular channels to Europe is paramount to preventing smuggler activity, vastly reducing the number of deaths in the Mediterranean; this could also lead to a substantially lower spending of the EU for search and rescue operations.
The EU-Turkey deal cannot serve as a good practice example
The EU-Turkey deal is cited by the Malta Summit as a 'success', but the only criterion was the number of arrivals, while the immense human cost of such an agreement was at no stage taken into consideration. Thousands of refugees and migrants at risk of being sent to Turkey remain trapped on Greek islands in inhumane and life threatening conditions. Importantly, migrants and refugees have since been forced to alternative land routes – in several cases at the cost of human lives to hypothermia in Greece and Bulgaria. These routes are more diffused, less obvious and rarely covered in the media, leaving the illusion that the EU-Turkey deal has in fact stopped arrivals.
There is no evidence that the EU has undertaken any impact assessments on the potential implications of its policies on the people they are supposed to target. The EU must take full responsibility of the consequences of its policies in Libya and the potential human cost it entails.
This is why we urge to:
- Facilitate safe mobility by opening and strengthening safe and regular channels to Europe for refugees and migrants including through resettlement, humanitarian admission and humanitarian visas, family reunification, worker mobility across skill levels and student visas. Safeguard the right to seek asylum under all circumstances.
- Review the plans set out by the Malta Summit to ensure that safeguards for human rights and respect for international law are in place; ensure that the human rights of those on the move are respected, regardless of their status, as set out in the Valletta Action Plan.
- Guarantee that EU border management policies protect people and their rights, not aim to stop migratory movements. Fundamental freedoms must be upheld, and the security needs of different groups, including the most vulnerable, must be assessed.
- Take evidence of human rights abuses in Libya seriously and stop any actions that may lead people to be pulled back towards the Libyan coast. The current approach risks violating people's fundamental rights and the rule of law, including the principle of non-refoulement.
- Thoroughly assess the human rights situation of migrants and the risks they face in Libya, and undertake objective and genuine impact assessment of the actions funded and coordinated by the EU and support international agencies in ensuring that Libya fulfils its duty to uphold human rights.
- Demand specific measures to identify and protect vulnerable groups including children, migrants and refugees with disabilities, victims of torture or trafficking and those at risk of discrimination.
The undersigned organizations:
Act Alliance, Act alliance EU, Action for Equality, Support, Antiracism (KISA), Aditus, Agisra e.V, Aitima, Amici dei Bambini, Amnesty International, Amref Health Africa, ARCI, ARCS Culture Solidali, Asociación Por Ti Mujer, Association Afrique Culture Maroc, Association for Integration and Migration, Association for the Social Support of Youth (ARSIS), Associazione Italiana Donne per lo Sviluppo (AIDOS), Associazione per gli Studi Giuridici sull'Immigrazione (ASGI), Associazione Universitaria per la Cooperazione Internazionale (AUCI), Asti, Austrian Red Cross, BAG Asyl in der Kirche , Ban Ying, Caritas Europa, CEFA, Centro Informazione e Educazione Allo Sviluppo Onlus (CIES), CIRÉ asbl, Comunità Volontari per il Mondo (CVM), CONCORD Sweden, Consorzio ONG Piemontesi (COP), Cooperazione e Solidarietà Internazionale (AOI), Cooperazione Internazionale Sud Sud (CISS), Cooperazione per il mondo in via di sviluppo (COMI), Cooperazione per lo sviluppo dei paesi emergenti (Cospe Onlus), Coordinamento Italiano network Internazionali (CINI), Detention Action UK, European Federation of National Organisations Working with the Homeless (FEANTSA), European Network Against Racism (ENAR), European Network of Migrant Women, Fachstelle Fauenhandel und Frauenmigration (FIZ), Fédération internationale des droits de l'Homme (FIDH), Federazione Organismi Cristiani di Servizio Internazionale Volontario, Greek Forum of Refugees , het Wereldhuis, Immigrant Council of Ireland, International Catholic Migration Commission Europe (ICMC), Jesuit Refugee Service Europe (JRS), La Cimade, La Strada International , Médecins du Monde, Medibüro Kiel e.V. , Menedék – Hungarian Association for Migrants, Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (MRCI), Migrant Voice, Missing Children Europe, Naga Onlus, Open Society European Policy Institute, PAX, Platform for International Cooperation on Undocumented Migrants (PICUM), Prodocs, Progetto Mondo, Red Acoge, Réseau Education Sans Frontières (RESF), Segreteria Società Italiana di Medicina delle Migrazioni (S.I.M.M.), Serviço Jesuíta aos Refugiados (JRS Portugal), Sonia, Stichting Ros, Stowarzyszenie Interwencji Prawnej, Terre des Hommes, The Research, Centre on Asylum and Migration (IGAM), Un ponte per.


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40" Handbag Zipper - ByAnnie - Wild Plum
These nylon-coil zippers are perfect for bags and carriers.
Here's why we prefer them:
- The wide zipper tape makes insertion easy.
- Unlike zippers with chunky, moulded polyester teeth, these handbag zippers are soft and flexible, making them easy to sew through. (No more broken needles!)
- The nylon coil is strong and durable zip after zip.
- The double slide lets you open your bag from either end.
- The double slide also enables you to make two single-slide zippers.
- Able to cut into desired lengths.


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Office of the Press Secretary
Today in his first-ever Saturday webcast addressed to the Nation, President Clinton will unveil a series of new initiatives to give the American people the "Information Age" government they deserve. These steps will cut red tape, make government more responsive to the needs of citizens, and expand opportunities for participation in our democracy. These initiatives build on the Administration's efforts, led by Vice President Gore, that have already greatly expanded citizen access to online government information and services. By the end of the year:
CITIZENS WILL BE ABLE TO SEARCH ALL ONLINE RESOURCES OFFERED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FROM A SINGLE WEB SITE: A team lead by Internet entrepreneur Eric Brewer will create a single web site called "firstgov.gov" that will allow citizens to search all online government documents. This free site, which will be developed at no cost to the taxpayers, will have the ability to search half a billion documents in less than one-quarter of a second, and will be able to handle at least 100 million searches a day. This will make it much easier for citizens to find government information and services, which are currently located on at least 20,000 different web sites. The site will be available this fall, and will not collect any personal information from citizens.
CITIZENS, SMALL BUSINESSES AND COMMUNITY GROUPS WILL HAVE "ONE-STOP" ACCESS TO GRANTS AND PROCUREMENT OPPORTUNITIES: This year, the federal government will award roughly $300 billion in grants and buy $200 billion in goods and services. Currently, there is no place where vendors can access all of the information they need to bid on government contracts. Moreover, there are 30,000 different organizations across the United States that receive at least $300,000 in federal grants, and must deal with systems for grant applications that vary from agency to agency. By the end of the year, the Administration will make it possible for people to go online to bid on, or apply for, the vast majority of these procurements and grant opportunities. Moving this business online will save time and money, and will bring more Americans into the process by them the opportunity to compete for these funds.
CITIZENS WILL BE ENCOURAGED TO SUGGEST NEW IDEAS FOR ADVANCING E-GOVERNMENT: The Administration will work with the Council for Excellence in Government, a non-profit, nonpartisan organization, to launch a new "e-government" competition. The Council will seek applications from students, businesspeople, researchers, and government employees for new applications, new technology, and new ways that government can serve and connect with citizens electronically. A top prize of $50,000 will be awarded for the most innovative proposal to advance e-government that is user-friendly, accessible, cost-effective, secure, and protects the privacy of citizens' personal information. The Council has assembled a team of corporate sponsors for the competition from its Technology Leadership Consortium. For more information about the competition please contact Council for Excellence in Government President and CEO Patricia McGinnis at 202-728-0418, or visit their website at www.excelgov.org.


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Get started on mosquito control! The generous amount of rain brings mosquitos and with the threat of Zika virus and other diseases, we understand the need to remove these pests quickly. Fertilome offers great information below on how to control and repel mosquitoes.
Mosquitoes are probably one of the more common, problematic and identifiable flying insects.
Adults feed on sugars from plants or from honeydew from other insects. This is all males feed on, females also feed on blood in order to produce eggs. Most females feed during a certain time of the day, usually during low-light times of the day, although some may feed throughout the day.
Eggs hatch and become larvae, also known as "wiggler" or "wriggler" due to the lashing movements of the abdomen. The larvae feed on particles in the water, during this time the larvae will go through 4 molts, towards the end of the 4th molt it will become a pupae. Then they emerge as adults.
Adults prefer to hide in protected areas during the day, such as; yards, trees, shrubs, weeds and areas of dense vegetation. The first line of defense would be to reduce weeds and thin vegetation. When applying a control "spray", apply to lower limbs of trees, shrubs and areas of heavy vegetation, under decks and around the foundation. Make the application in the very early morning or early evening.
38 Plus may be used around the foundation, yard or land-scape this product will go the farthest and last the longest.
FL IndoorOutdoor may be used in the house.
HY Indoor/Outdoor or Lawn, Garden, Pet Spray are both very effective on mosquitos, LGP may be sprayed on vegetables. These also offer a repelling action.
Use Spreader Sticker to increase the coverage on plants and the length of the residue.
On a person, Universities recommend a product with DEET, Fertilome does not have such a product.
For other outdoor areas, we have Natural Guard Lawn Shield.
This is a granule covered with cedar oil. It has a very pleasant odor and is organic so is very safe for kids and pets, no delay in re-entry is required.
It starts to repel within minutes of application. It is an irritant to all flying insects and they will leave or stay away as long as the cedar odor is present.
Light watering's or rain can re- invigorate the barrier increasing the longevity, this varies due to the amount of product used or moisture.


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Last night, we linked to a bunch of Moreno headlines. For lunch, we've got Stafford headlines from around the country. Most of the articles are form this weekend.
- -- Historic Battleground - ABH
-- At the top of his game - Dallas Morning News
-- Stafford steps up as leader for UGA - Sporting News
-- How does Stafford Measure Up - Dallas Morning News
-- Schedule Reason for Anxiety. Not QB - Knoxville News
-- Striving for Perfection - DawgPost


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As some of you who monitor the KDE news sphere may have noticed, there has been a recent addition to the kdebase module. The Dolphin File Manager has been added to complement Konqueror's browsing capabilities. Read on for more information about this new File Manager and its relationship to Konqueror and the rest of KDE.
A brief history lesson so you can get an overview of how file management has evolved with KDE: In KDE 1.x, KFM (the KDE File Manager) was born. It was a very rudimentary, very basic file manager with limited web browsing capabilities. Below is a shot of KFM browsing files (from the kde.org screenshot archive) so you get an idea of how it operated.
While it's obvious that KDE has come a long way since KDE 1.x, it is still easy to see which parts of KFM have inspired Konqueror's contemporary design, which was introduced as part of KDE 2.0. KParts technology revolutionized the way we used our File Manager application, turning Konqueror into a full fledged web-browser, and more. Here's a shot of Konqueror from KDE 3.5.6, and you can see that while the user interface is much improved, the same basic concepts remain visible from the KFM days.
Konqueror really shines as a beacon of KDE technologies in the KDE 2.x and 3.x series, showcasing the best parts of KDE technologies. Konqueror showcased the power of KDE's IO slaves, allowing true network transparency when managing your files over FTP, fish (SSH), HTTP, and much more. Konqueror is so advanced that you can enter an FTP URL into a HTML upload form and it just works as you would logically expect it to (as far as I know, it is the only browser which allows this). It also featured KParts, which allowed it to embed just about any sort of viewer required, directly into the interface, embedding things like KPDF, KWord, image viewers, and most importantly, the ever-improving KHTML page renderer. This is important, since even Konqueror's icon views were implemented as pluggable parts, making just about any kind of icon view possible.
So, Konqueror is a really powerful tool that can do just about everything you and your system can possibly want, and with this power comes unlimited configurability and extensibility through control modules and plugins. However, what often happens in Konqueror when you are browsing the internet is that Konqueror still wants to behave as a file manager and not a web browser. This split behavior is easily noticed through elements such as toolbar buttons. For example: the "Up" arrow is still available on the toolbar even when browsing Google Maps, but it is totally irrelevant in this context; another is having a web bookmarks toolbar visible while sorting icons in your /home folder.
Introducing Dolphin: Dolphin is a new File Manager for KDE 4 which is dedicated 100% to file management, and is not intended to be a one-size-fits-all tool as Konqueror currently attempts. It is intended to optimize your file management related tasks, and present an easy to use file manager for casual KDE use. That doesn't mean it won't be powerful or configurable, only that Dolphin is being built for a single purpose.
Dolphin isn't a total rewrite however, and is not intended to compete with Konqueror, rather the two applications will be complimentary. Dolphin uses the already existing IO slave facilities of the KDE platform to perform remote or local file management, meaning that it will be capable of doing all of the 'remote management' type activities that Konqueror has already matured. Dolphin just won't show web pages or PDF files embedded as Konqueror does.
And Konqueror will benefit from Dolphin as well. Konqueror is not going to disappear for KDE 4, although its user interface may yet see some adjustments as its primary utility will not as the default file manager. Of course, Konqueror will still be available for file management tasks as it has been in the past - there will be no changes in this regard. Changes made to KDE's icon view parts through the development of Dolphin will also help to improve Konqueror's icon views, as they both share these libraries. As stated before, Konqueror loads all of these icon views as pluggable libraries called KParts - improvements to the underlying KParts automatically benefit all users.
So lets take a look at Dolphin and Konqueror as they currently exist in KDE's Subversion repository. Please keep in mind that these snapshots represent developer work-in-progress builds and, while publicly available, are not representative of the final appearance or intended functionality of either applications, nor are they recommended for everyday use.
Konqueror currently looks something like this, and the icon views only half work. The problem is that these file views are simply direct ports of the KDE 3 codebase. Konqueror will eventually receive the same fileviews that Dolphin is currently using.
You can tell from Konqueror's default configuration of using tabs, and various other related interface choices that Konqueror is now mostly a web browser that also happens to do file management. While Konqueror's roots are truly derive from file management, it is more frequently operated as a browser these days by many KDE users. Konqueror does a great job as a web browser, underpinned by the fact it now implements CSS 3, including the highly-anticipated 'opacity' tags.
So while Konqueror continues to improve as a browser, it will continue to maintain KDE 3.x file management standards, providing a baseline functionality, and will be improved as code is shared between itself and Dolphin.
Dolphin is a whole different animal. It is a 'real' file manager - it's interface has a lot of elements which are specific to a file manager and cannot really be justified in a browser. This is best demonstrated with a screenshot.
Notice the implemention of a 'breadcrumb'-style directory selector, which works well for file management in a lot of cases, but is totally useless if you need to enter a URL when using a browser, and so becomes the sort of widget which is only useful when dealing with file hierarchies. Breadcrumb widgets may be familiar to anyone who has used OS X's Finder or GNOME's Nautilus. Another comment about the above screenshot: clicking and holding a breadcrumb item displays a list of directories that are at the same level as the one clicked, allowing for more efficient navigation.
However, using the breadcrumb widget is not essential, and if you are more comfortable with a Konqueror-style location bar, this mode of operation is easily configurable, as seen above. In fact, much of Dolphin is configurable, illustrated below.
This screenshot evidences the amount of effort KDE is spending trying to make configuration layouts sane while still providing as many options as reason allows. Also note the improved appearance of the configuration dialogs in KDE 4. Of course, this is going to be revisited somewhat as the dialog is too tall for some screens at the moment. After the Oxygen visual components go live, this dialog will be even easier on the eyes.
So, Dolphin's functionality is not entirely new, other than it presents itself in a new way. It can be seen as a hybrid between the power of Konqueror and the structure of Nautilus. Dolphin still builds on a strong KDE base, reusing existing technologies like KIO slaves and so forth. Right-click actions that were available in Konqueror will still be mostly present (except that Dolphin will necessarily load files externally instead of using embedding viewers). And Konqueror can now improve its web browsing experience even more, doing so without losing the file browsing support that has been there since KDE 2.0.
When KDE 4 is released, Dolphin will be configured as the default application for the local file:/ protocol, as well as the default file manager listed in the applications menu. Konqueror will ship as the default web browser, and will still be usable as a file manager to those that prefer the historical lifestyle. Users of KDE will have the ability to set the default file browser, much like how KDE 3.x can use third-party applications such as Krusader as the default file manager. Stay tuned for more information as Dolphin and KDE evolve towards 4.0.
Point 1) So you admit that breadcrumb is unable to address some situations that were adressed by the previous solution.
Point 2) It's maybe because I'm a real life user? For once, I recieve an answer different from "dot dirs shouldn't be accessed by browser as they are often system directories".
Point 3) /home is chmod 711. This means you can cd in that directory, but you can't readdir you must know the file/directory name you want to use. thus as a user, you don't need to browse /home, but you may be interrested in browsing /home/username.
I should have stated directory you can't browse but can navidate thru.
Anyway: question still there: How do you navigate using breadcrumb method to a path were some upper directory has 711 permission and you're not the owner?
Dolphin <> Konqueror
I have now set-up Dolphin as default file manager, and have following observations: -
+ Is fast
+ A bit lighter than Konqueror
+ 'breadcrumb'-style directory selector
+ Very simple
- Missing embedded views > I disliked them one they were made a part of Konqueror. I still have disabled embedded views for all uses except viewing tar/zip files.
- Tree view > Actually i did not noticed it after usage of 2-3 days, only came to know about it on this page itself!
About Konqueror: -
+ You all know ;)
- 'breadcrumb'-style directory selector
- Profile Management
I'll use Dolphin if it replaces its -s with +s, otherwise continue with Konqueror.
dolphin is easy and fast beacuse it lacks all advanced features :>
rubbish. I could go on to point out all the advanced features, like kioslave support, split views, intelligent file sorting, an,d so on that it has. but seeing as you probably wouldn't listen anyways it would be a waste of my time.
Well, in my opinion Dolphin is a bad idea. Why do we need another file manager. If I want to use a "real" file management tool, I will take Krusader. Dolphin is useless and looks just like a copy of Nautilus. The universality of Konqueror was the only reason why I have taken KDE as my desktop environment on Debian.
Good thing Konqueror isn't being removed, only not the default for file management (still the default for web browsing).
Yes! Improve Konqueror! Don't split our resources on two projects when all the Dolphin features could be implemented also in Konqueror but not vice-versa!
Point is, you can't implement one important feature from dolphin in konqueror: it's simplicity. Now I won't be using dolpin a lot, I love konqi. But I think it can be helpfull for many users out there, so why not? All other OSses and DE's have a sperate filemanager and a seperate browser (yes, MS since IE 7) and I guess there are reasons for that ;-)
>For example: the "Up" arrow is still available on the toolbar even when browsing
>Google Maps, but it is totally irrelevant in this context; another is having a web
>bookmarks toolbar visible while sorting icons in your /home folder.
This is because your konqueror is badly configured ;)
gnumdk@flanders:~/.kde/share/apps/konqueror/profiles$ grep XML *
And here my file manager:
here my web browser:
Huh, I use the up button almost exclusevely for webbrowsing, where it makes perfect sense for me - it's one the really cool things in Konqueror that I miss immidiately in any other web browser.
Did you accomplish this with just the profile functionality? I have tried to do similar things with no success. It seems that any change made to the toolbar or menu is inherited by all profiles. So what am I doing wrong?
Try e.g. to have different icons sizes for different profiles.
Toolbar saving is broken (design flaw obviously) and has to be fixed.
...that the baby may be thrown out with the bathwater.
The integration found in Konqueror was the most important factor when I choosed KDE (and that I kept on using it).
There is a real risk that newcomers will use Dolphin and Firefox instead of Konqueror, just because "usability experts" say that Konqueror is too complicated.
There sure are things that can be improved - like profiles, menus just to name a few - but I just can't see the point of dividing the best part of KDE. Make it better instead.
After reading all comments (180+ comments, WOW!!!) and watching some KDE-GNOME wars, in my opinion why people keep calling Konqueror "bloated" is because there is no clear separation between webbrowser + filebrowser, e.g: why do you need "configure spellchecking" and "print" in a filemanager? (some of them are "greyed", but still there). But besides that, many people like Konqueror for universal viewing application / swiss army tool. Anyway, I have two ideas in my brain:
1. Improve profiles handling in Konqueror (like many others have suggested).
2. Set Dolphin as file manager, and make sure that it will have all killer features of Konqueror and set Konqueror as full featured Webbrowser.
Personally, I prefer Konqueror like in 3.x series (but I wish they had better profiles handling), however, given that there are people who wish to actively maintain Dolphin, I 100% agree with this decision. I also really love the KParts embedded things, as I really like to "torture" my Konqueror ;), for example if I'm given few links to pdf files, I just use my middle click mouse for every links and few seconds later I have all pdf documents ready :D
From a KDE freak
"1. Improve profiles handling in Konqueror"
Which is an extremely hard task, which no one seems to be willing to to.
"2. Set Dolphin as file manager, and make sure that it will have all killer features of Konqueror and set Konqueror as full featured Webbrowser."
Which is rather the way it's going to be (it seems). The only feature dolphin will miss compared to konqueror will be to embed other views/kparts/applications.
"Which is an extremely hard task, which no one seems to be willing to to."
Did you forget the ":)"?
"Improve profiles handling in Konqueror (like many others have suggested)."
I agree. And session management would also be neccessary for powerful use.
> 1. Improve profiles handling in Konqueror (like many others have suggested).
just because lots of people who are completely unfamiliar with the code and probably lack the expertise to write complex software in the first place say something doesn't make it true. it just makes them loud.
the suggestion sounds easy to the innocent ear, but it's anything but. in fact, it would, imho, actually make konqueror worse once all was said and done.
> I just use my middle click mouse for every links and few seconds
> later I have all pdf documents ready
yeah, i do this too. love it =) konqueror will maintain this feature, of course.
I don't use lonqueror as my default browser, there are better more secure and often more convenient options, but it is at least a decent browser and if it can be trusted not to 'give away the farm' I don't see a real advantage to an app that simply removes a convenient functionality that is almost trivial to it's
I like the up button on websites - should be (an option) in all browsers.
Granted, up one level may often get you a forbidden message, but up again may take you to somewhere interesting. Naturally you could select the branch of an address by hand, backspacing to the slash, but the up button is very convenient here.
I love the x button of konqueror's location bar. Another option that all navigators (file/web) should have, but don't (save for a firefox plugin) - especially with a linux-like clipboard system (middle click to paste selected would fail if the location bar couldn't be cleared without selecting, right?).
I hate bread crumbs. Too slow compared to konq's predictive entry or cut and paste. I'd rather navigate in a bash shell than use bread crumb buttons.
I am thankful that many apps that use "breadcrumb" navigation offer a location bar alternative by pressing "Ctrl-L" (a nearly universal key-combo the Gimp! an most media players.)
As most people like to keep Konqueror and some hve said that DOlphin will be the Filesmanager of Kde, i suggest du opposite :
Keep Konqueror and the Power and let the User switch to Doplhin if he wants..
you can profile the konqueror default to look like doplhin though
That's definitely not my opinion. The power user, if he or she is a real power user, will be capable of switching to konqueror if he wants to do so. The "normal" user often isn't.
Instead I'd like to suggest Dolphin as default, with Dolphin having a menu command
Open in Konqueror,
and Konqueror having a menu command
Open in Dolphin,
which both just close the current app, opens the other, asking if one would like to make it the new default.
A big problem for me are dolphin's icon sizes. I either can use 64 (too small for my display/my eyes) or 128 (too big, takes up too much space). There are a lot icon themes out there with icon sizes 96x96 and 72x72. Konqueror can show those sizes. Why not dolphin? I hope this will be corrected in the next/KDE4 version.
I hope they have all icons as SVG, and you can zoom pixel by pixel... :D
I think the development of Dolphin as a dedicated file manager is a good idea. However, with Konqueror as it is now, one can easily configure different interface appearances for different uses and save them as separate view profiles. One then just opens the view profile suitable for the purpose to which one is going to put Konqueror.
I'm continueing to play with dolphin and since I can't find any official bug tracker I'm going to post a some suggestions.
1) Bookmarks, there are a few things that could be better with dolphins implimentation of bookmarks:
Firstly you can only access bookmarks from bredcrumb mode, you should have the ability to use bookmarks from the editable url bar. In this mode useing a bookmark should copy the full url of the bookmark to the address bar.
Secondly in bredcrumb mode bookmarks hide the file tree below them, if you browse into /home/me the bredcrumbs will say "home" and nothing but "home" this is annoying if you want to go back up to another part of the filesystem, and IMHO it will slow down a new user from fully learning his way around the Linux filesystem. I think it would be better if you show the full path from / instead
thridly the folder / is called root. That dosn't feel right to me, and again it may slow a user down in learning his way around the filesystem
Finally there is no way, that I found, of makeing a new bookmark without going into configure dolphin. A simple "bookmark this folder" should be found under tools, as well as hotkey and optional toolbar button for the same.
2) file/folder names sometimes cut to a new line in the middle of a word, this is horrid (sorry to be so blunt but it really is), perhaps you could copy konquorers code for this, konquoror dose get it right
3) I think the breadcrumbs could be implimented a little better,
firstly you have folder > folder, wouldn't it make more sense, and fit in better with Liunx to have folder / folder?
and the current system of clicking on a folder then seeing everything in that folder in a drop down menu is nice, but I think if you click a folder it should cut to that folder, and if you click the arrow (or the slash) then you get the drop down menu.
4) Just a small suggestion, there is two seprate hotkeys for switching to bredcrumbs/editable url. There should be one hotkey that switches to whatever one you're not useing.
Note: If you replace the arrows with slashes, and rename root to /, then you'll end up with two slashes in a row, a solution could be to have no name at all for root and then let the following / stand in for the name.
First thanks for your constructive input!
> 1) Bookmarks, there are a few things that could be better
> with dolphins implimentation of bookmarks:
The bookmarks handling in Dolphin will be completely reworked for KDE 4.
> Secondly in bredcrumb mode bookmarks hide the file tree below them
We plan to make this configurable, as there are a lot of pro and cons on both sides, whether a hiding of the physical file hierarchy should be done or not.
> thridly the folder / is called root. That dosn't feel right
> to me, and again it may slow a user down in learning his way
> around the filesystem
We'll discuss this.
> Finally there is no way, that I found, of makeing a new
> bookmark without going into configure dolphin.
Currently it's possible by using the context menu, but I think we'll introduce a "Bookmark" menu to stay consistent with other applications using bookmarks.
> 2) file/folder names sometimes cut to a new line in the middle of a word,
> this is horrid (sorry to be so blunt but it really is)
You're right, it is horrid :-) Will be solved for sure in KDE4, the code for this is shared by Dolphin and Konqi.
> 3) I think the breadcrumbs could be implimented a little better,
> firstly you have folder > folder, wouldn't it make more sense,
> and fit in better with Liunx to have folder / folder?
The look of the breadcrumb will be improved anyway. I'm not sure whether it's better to use "/" instead of ">", but let's see :-)
> and the current system of clicking on a folder then seeing
> everything in that folder in a drop down menu is nice, but
> I think if you click a folder it should cut to that folder,
> and if you click the arrow (or the slash) then you get the
> drop down menu.
There had been some usability tests concerning this point and the outcome was that arrows as drop down have not been perceived very well by the users (it was not clear for the people which directory was shown: the directory before the arrow or after the arrow; also accidentally clicking on the arrows happened).
We are not sure whether the current approach is the best, but we're working on it :-)
> 4) Just a small suggestion, there is two seprate hotkeys
> for switching to bredcrumbs/editable url. There should be
> one hotkey that switches to whatever one you're not useing.
We'll discuss this. I personally also would like a toggle key for this.
Best regards,
Thanks for replying :) again you're post is filled with good news and I look forward to seeing the results of you're discussions in KDE4-alpha.
Two points I'd like to respond to directly
>> 2) file/folder names sometimes cut to a new line in the middle of a word,
>> this is horrid (sorry to be so blunt but it really is)
>You're right, it is horrid :-) Will be solved for sure in KDE4, the code for >this is shared by Dolphin and Konqi.
Thank goodness :) I'm delighted to hear it.
>There had been some usability tests concerning this point and the outcome was
>that arrows as drop down have not been perceived very well by the users (it was
>not clear for the people which directory was shown: the directory before the
>arrow or after the arrow; also accidentally clicking on the arrows happened).
How long were users exposed to dolphin before the results were recorded? I ask because the confusion of what directory was shown should clear up with a little practice, suggesting that they didn't use dolphin for long. And IMO the real usibiltiy test is not first impressions, but how useable is it after you've had it for a while and learnt you're way around.
> How long were users exposed to dolphin before the results were recorded?
> I ask because the confusion of what directory was shown should clear up
> with a little practice, suggesting that they didn't use dolphin for long.
> And IMO the real usibiltiy test is not first impressions, but how useable
> is it after you've had it for a while and learnt you're way around.
In this test Dolphin was not involved at all. The test has been done at Akademy last year and the result has been posted to kfm-devel: http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=116377940524940&w=2
Best regards,
Thanks, I'll read up on that
> should clear up with a little practice
it's a matter of human visual cognition and limitations on fine motor skills. in other words, for most people it would take upgrades to the software in our heads.
Did you mean the accidental cliks? Because I can't see how how being confused as to weather the directory shown was before the arrow or after the arrow is related to fine motor skills.
We're in the 3rd millenium and it's time to think about future of computing and what is the purpose of computers.
Many people seems to make confusion between "computing science is an end itself" and "computer science is a mean to reach its ends".
Most people, hopefully use their computer as a way to achieve a result no matter the technology behind.
I mean, no matter how data is stored (files, database, remotely, localy, ...), no matter what application will manage data (one multi-profile, several dedicated)...
But one thing is sure, data is converging toward multimedia in a seamless access way. trying to spearate datatype access is just adding difficulties...
Example are digital camera: they host videos, photos and audio comment. How do you keep track (and link to the photo) of audio comments with a photo-only mangement software?
How do you see photos related to an audio comment in a audio only software?
The way to go is to render seamless the access and the management of the data just like multiview did in the past on Amiga but with new technology.
A file manager like dolphin is useless when entering a maildir directory (you see useless files, you can't know what to drop, you can't move directories, ...) while a data browser like konqueror could manage the content, move sub-parts and such provided the correct profile and kio is there. (yes kio will exist in dolphin, but it is not designed for such philosophy).
What would be great benefit and great step forward in KDE would be to have a more intuitive seamless data management like the following:
You could have .directory (at the root of specific directories) containing specific profile skinning the browser for optimised browsing according to the content of the directory it resides in. By default, when a new homedir is created, the ~/Video directory would be setup for video browsing, the ~/Mail directory would be setup for Mail browsing, the ~/Photo directory would be setup for photo viewing and so on...
The the data browser would have ONE UNIQUE database used for linking related content (which is impossible with separated apps).
Example, you recieve a mail with a attached photo, the attachment is moved to the Photo library and linked to the original mail (right now, you save the attachment and keep the mail having 2 copies of the attachment in 2 locations and 2 different formats (yes some non kde apps can drop attachment, but the link is lost; fowarding suc a mail will miss the original attachment)).
- Pluging a digital camera would allow to download content in apropriate directories keeping link of audio comments to associated photos.
Later, starting amarok (a profile of the data browser) and seeing updates in the audio directory (subsection comments), would allow to see associated photo for the comment (just like the album photo is associated with a music file).
Later, starting digikam (another profile of the data browser) would allow to hear comment in the photo.
Then how about sending an e-mail with some photos. and the magic includes (at your wish) the related audio comments).
- What about representing maildirs as a file system. A mail (the leafs) would be represented as directories. Entering the directory would display the mail, but staying above could alow to drop files in the virtual folder which is the mail; adding an attachment.
You need to make room on you filesystem...
With the above representation and filelight view, no need to start multiple applications to make space. just remove data whatever it is (a mail subfolder that is obsolete, a file, ...)
You want to remove all records (whatever they are) that are older than a year (problem many companies have regarding the Sarbanes-Oxley law).
No need to start many apps anymore (like file browser, mail browser, exif browser, archive browsers ...)
Just look at the iPhone GUI. did you heard of any file browser? no, there is a media browser.
Speaking of file sohuld raise no more often than speaking of kernel modules. Reserved to Computer Science, not Computer users.
Failing to see this evolution will lead to fall behin future Mac OS-X and Vista. (yes winfs and related app will raise one day)
PS: Having a database based filesystem would help but is not a showstopper.
Think that Microsoft (and far before, Be Inc.) thought about such data representation and the winfs project is not dropped....
Think also about google web based applications that hide the data storage model too.
Programmers are not end users, but they create software they do not use to achieve a task, but to achieve a goal. Gimp vs Krita is perfect example. Gimp was desing by Skilled Graphic computer science programmers: you need to be computer science skilled in order to find how to draw a strait line. Krita was designed by Graphists that have computer science skills: that makes a big difference!
Is KDE4 leading toward skilled computer science programmers leaving out computer end users?
Just my 2 cents.
There is no need for a "data browser" and a conversion of all applications into profiles/kparts.
Seems realy cool project, but while it will (seems to) address the problem of keeping audio comment of photos downloaded from a digital camera I don't see how it could address a common database for media management.
I mean:
- digikam will manage photos
- amarok will manage musics
- kaffeine will manage videos and other multimedia contents
Then, If I use an authoring software to create a DVD, this software will have two choices for media library:
- Have its own library (just like all windows authoring software I know): very likely to happen, and thus some code to write and maintain, plus inconcistencies to manage.
- Have to link with all the above software API (if possible) and manage the different concept of thoses APIs for a similare representation: unikely to happen.
Maybe I didn't read enough though
I've been using GNOME for a long time and recently formated and reinstall a just-KDE Debian Etch to tryout KDE. I'm one who uses both Windows and Linux depending on what I'm doing.
Now, since I switch between two desktop, I won't be interest in spending any extra time to look at diff applications on different platforms. The result is, I uses Azureus for BT, Firefox for browsing, Thunderbird for mail client, etc.
The best thing that KDE users think about KDE is its tight integration (I think, at least). But you should also realise that there're a big group of people who prefer a more "object oriented" approach.
I don't mind to have the library that Konqueror bases on to sit on my computer if it's meant to share code with some other programs (e.g. file manager). But I just do not need Konqueror itself since I uses Firefox and I really don't want Konqueror to be on my computer.
May be KDE should consider not having Konqueror a dependency, but a default option? That way, we who uses *other stuff* can have *one application for each task*. I know KDE4 is aiming for *one app for each task*. And I like the same thing. Doesn't hurt to give us another option huh.
You will be able to use Konqueror in KDE 4 on Windows, I think. :)
Will Dolphin in KDE4 include a directory tree side panel?
I tried the last KDE3 version and the panel only has info and bookmark views, and no tree view, that I need often...
I can't help but wonder why so many filemanagers completely ditch proper tree views...
> I can't help but wonder why so many filemanagers completely ditch proper tree views...
Because programmers are using shell completion as a daily basis and only use their development for testing...
I'm 100% with you on the necesity of a Tree View. I personally don't care for any other sidebar...
> Will Dolphin in KDE4 include a directory tree side panel?
Yes, a directory tree side panel will be supported. I committed an initial version just some hours ago...
Best regards,
Awesome! I hope it works better than konqueror's!
Konqueror is an awesome file manager. It's got the best thumbnail support, the largest number of views (file size view, tree view, etc), and support for an infinite number of panes, for instance. I would like to see a uber-breadcrumb widget address bar, though.
Konqueror is a mediocre web browser. It's competing with Opera (my 1st choice) and Firefox (a close second). I'd like to see it catch up to Opera's level, however, because I'd like my browser of choice to be open source.
I honestly think Konqueror should be split into a separate File Browser and Web Browser, because they are two completely separate functions. For emphasis, let me emphasize:
|* FILE MANAGING and WEB BROWSING are two
Splitting Konqueror into two apps would help developers refine these two functions. Having a "web" profile and a "file" profile is a hack. Rather than have two faces for the same app, let there be two apps!
On a separate note, isn't it wonderful how we have as many different proposed solutions as we have people? We can dump Dolphin, use Dolphin, use Krusader, use Konqueror, and so on. That's the great thing about open source: we have so many choices!
> FILE MANAGING and WEB BROWSING are two
I always used to believe this too, but it isn't really true. A web-browser is just a file-viewer which works over http. (Or you could say that a file-viewer is a web browser for local documents!).
In both cases, we have a window, some navigation buttons, a URL-bar, and (usually) multiple tabs. No need for multiple applications, mainly duplicate code, and wasted RAM.
However, when konqui changes context (web/file etc), this ought to change the widget layout automatically.
For example, the [home] button should change context (and probably the icon too) to distinguish /home/me from http://myhomepage.com.
In my view, the "Profiles" thing should be split up into 2 functions:
a)Automatic context switching between GUI and File manager.
b)Something for advanced users, who might actually want multiple home-pages, or file-management profiles.
Currently, it mainly works as (b), but is most commonly used as (a).
>> FILE MANAGING and WEB BROWSING are two
>I always used to believe this too, but it isn't really true. A web-browser is >just a file-viewer which works over http. (Or you could say that a file-viewer >is a web browser for local documents!).
Exactly my point. I've always thought that this was the point of Konq.
And I love it - if I wanted it different, I would use Firefox and Krusader (you always have to have Firefox around anyway, since there are webpages that Konq can't handle, and Krusader is a great file manager).
"A web-browser is just a file-viewer which works over http."
For example GMail is something like file viewing?!?
Can you explaim me the similarities of the _use_cases_ of "file management/browsing" and "browsing/commenting dot.kde.org"?
Face it. The days were web browsing was (mostly) just viewing static HTML are over. Welcome to the world of Web 2.0!
Yes, GMail is just slightly fancier than a series of static HTML pages. Konqueror is a universal viewer that doesn't care about protocols. If Konqueror didn't embed other kparts then you'd have a point that embeded khtml didn't make much sense, but you can view PDFs, videos, text documents, html files (regardless of how much java script they have) over ANY kio slave, whether thats file, HTTP, sftp, nfs, smb, etc!
Konqueror isn't JUST a file browser like Nautilus, Explorer, and Finder are. It's much closer to an object viewer, regardless where the object is located (in a database, on the local system, or on an http server), or what type of object it is (text, picture, video, audio, html, etc).
So again, being able to view view all of those other formats regardless of format and protocol but NOT html over http wouldn't make any more sense than being able to only 'browse' files and view html over http.
Being able to to view documents regardless to the protocol is a feature of KIO-slaves. So it's not only konqueror, but any application (and kpart) that can do this. Simply try it with any open/save filedialog.
It may be nice for you, that konqueror can display most objects. For me it's more convenient when konqueror delegates the viewing to other applications. Having konqueror always morphing parts of it's interface is simply disturbing me...
and file viewing since when is file-viewing file-managing? dolphin can't view files. thats the point. most websites are like documents, not like a filesystem. a tabbar, navigation buttons and a url input are nothing major that needs to be duplicated. in fact because of different meanings of these elements many need different implementations for any mode anyway.
you end up with many functions only usefull in one mode. you don't rename websites. you don't move them. you can't view websites like a tree. you don't create new websites in a browser. you don't open thins in a webbrowser and you don't have multiple actions for a website.
web browsing and filemanagment are not related at all. in the end webbrowsing isn't related to anything anymore. because of the direction the web is heading, it isn't simple document-viewing-with-hyperlinks like it used to be. many websites today are web-applications.
"you end up with many functions only usefull in one mode. you don't rename websites. you don't move them. you can't view websites like a tree. you don't create new websites in a browser. you don't open thins in a webbrowser and you don't have multiple actions for a website."
Thats mostly just a limitation of the HTTP protocol. If the websites were over any other protocol, you could without any problems. Web Browsing and File Viewing+Management ARE related, web browsing is simply a limited sub set of the functionality.
"Web Browsing and File Viewing+Management ARE related, web browsing is simply a limited sub set of the functionality"
Which subset?
Sorry, but I don't see the similarity. For me those are completely different use cases.


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Why are we here? What do we owe our communities and future generations? Is it worth it to contemplate our existence?
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Make time for meaningful gatherings with others. Join a faith community or philosophical organization. Online or in-person, there are communities you could join to share your wisdom, ponder life's purpose, or share your theories about history's mysteries.
Attend a support group. No matter what you may be challenged with, it is likely that you aren't the only one. Support groups are a great place to share what you've learned with your challenge and receive important empathy and emotional connection.
Express yourself creatively. Sing, dance, paint, or draw! Artistic expression helps us share who we are while enriching the lives of others.
And lastly, volunteer! Many studies have shown that volunteering reduces depression and leads to a longer, healthier life. Some doctors even "prescribe" volunteering to older patients. With a volunteer opportunity for almost anyone, you are sure to find an opportunity that fits your skills and interests.
The information in this article is not intended to replace the advice of your doctor.
Source: IlluminAge


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NEW YORK — Anthony Bennett was stunned at the start. David Stern had a big surprise at the finish.
In between, Nerlens Noel and a number of others experienced wild rides to start their careers in an unsettled first round of the NBA draft.
Bennett became the first Canadian No. 1 overall pick, and Noel tumbled out of the top five and right into a trade, the first of many moves that took a back seat to one in the works for the team that calls Barclays Center home.
The Brooklyn Nets will acquire Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett from Boston in a blockbuster deal that was still developing as the draft neared its conclusion, according to a person with knowledge of the details.
"There was a lot of activity," said Nets general manager Billy King, who wouldn't comment on the trade. "As you guys will find out, there will be a lot of trades that are announced."
His can't be until July 10, after next season's salary cap is set.
As for the draft, it was as unpredictable as expected, capped by Hakeem Olajuwon coming on stage at the end of the first round to greet Stern, dressed in the same tuxedo style he wore when Stern called his to start the soon-to-be retired commissioner's first draft in 1984.
One of the favorites to be taken first Thursday night, Noel fell to No. 6, where the New Orleans Pelicans took him and then dealt his rights to the Philadelphia 76ers for a package headlined by All-Star guard Jrue Holiday, according to a person familiar with the details. That trade can't become official until July 10 because of salary cap concerns, according to another official with knowledge of the deal.
The Cleveland Cavaliers started things by passing on centers Noel and Alex Len, who went to Phoenix at No. 5, in favor Bennett, the UNLV freshman forward who starred for Canada's junior national teams and was the Mountain West Conference freshman of the year. Bennett led a record 12 international players who were taken in the first round.
"I'm just as surprised as anyone else," Bennett said.
There was suspense right until the end, either because the Cavs were unsure who they wanted or were trying to trade the pick. Most predictions had them taking one of the big men, with Noel largely considered the favorite for the No. 1 choice even after a torn ACL that ended his lone season at Kentucky in February.
"I thought everything was in the air, so I wasn't thinking I was the No. 1 pick," Noel said.
Stern, booed heavily in his final draft, added to the surprise of the moment by pausing slightly before announcing the Cavs' pick, their first at No. 1 since taking All-Star Kyrie Irving in 2011.
Orlando passed on both of the big men, too, going with Indiana swingman Victor Oladipo with the No. 2 pick. Washington took Otto Porter Jr. with the third pick, keeping the Georgetown star in town.
Ten years after the Cavaliers selected LeBron James to start a draft that included future NBA championship teammates Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in the top five, this one lacked star power and perhaps even the promise of stardom.
Bennett, Noel and Len are all coming off injuries and couldn't even work out for teams, but the Cavs decided Bennett's shoulder surgery wasn't enough cause for concern.
Len walked up to meet Stern and collect his orange Suns hat, then sat down near the stage to put on the walking boot he needs for the stress fracture of his left ankle that was discovered after Maryland's season.
Noel finally went to New Orleans with the next pick. He didn't seem upset at his fall down the draft board, hugging his mother and shaking hands with Kentucky coach John Calipari.
It was a good start to the night for the Hoosiers, with Cody Zeller going to the Charlotte Bobcats two places after Oladipo.
Kansas guard Ben McLemore, another player who was considered a potential top-three pick, also dropped, going seventh to Sacramento.
Headed by a lackluster class, the draft promised confusion and second-guessing, with no consensus No. 1 pick and little agreement among the order of the top five.
And with lesser-known names in the draft, veterans soaked up the spotlight in the hours leading up to it.
Yahoo Sports first reported that the Nets and Celtics were working on a trade that would complete the breakup of the Celtics' veteran core.
ESPN reported earlier Thursday that Dwight Howard was unlikely to return to the Los Angeles Lakers when he becomes a free agent next month.
The guys coming into the league were glad for the attention they did finally get once their names were called.
"It's like a weight vest you took off after running five miles," Oladipo said. "It's relaxing, man. But at the same time, you know it's just getting started."
National player of the year Trey Burke of Michigan also was traded, the Minnesota Timberwolves sending his rights to Utah for the rights to Shabazz Muhammad and Gorgui Dieng, the Nos. 14 and 21 picks.
Lehigh's C.J. McCollum rounded out the top 10 by going to Portland.
Stern, retiring in February, seemed to play up the boos, which turned to cheers after every pick, fans perhaps as puzzled as some of the players at the names they were hearing.
"I was just kidding my agent because he didn't bail me out," Zeller said. "He didn't tell me. I didn't know until David Stern announced it. It's a crazy process not knowing, but I'm definitely excited that I ended up with the Bobcats."
Other players couldn't get too excited about their new addresses, because they changed quickly.
Stern was announcing deals by the middle of the first round and they promised to keep coming after he called it a night and turned things over to Deputy Commissioner Adam Silver for the final 30 picks.
The flurry of trades wasn't surprising with so much uncertainty surrounding this class and so much hope in other areas. Teams such as Houston, Dallas and Atlanta already have an eye on Howard's future, needing to have necessary salary cap space to offer a maximum contract that could lure him away from Los Angeles.
The 2014 class — which could be topped by a second straight Canadian in incoming Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins — will be higher regarded than this one, with James perhaps heading the available free agents to follow.
Local fans seemed pleased with their picks, cheering loudly when the Nets took Duke forward Mason Plumlee at No. 22 and the New York Knicks grabbed Michigan's Tim Hardaway Jr. two picks later.
Stern made his final pick to close the first round to cheers of "David! David!" before handing things off to Silver.


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Phytohormones Influence on the In-Vitro Regeneration of Saccharum Officinarum L. from Apical Meristem Culture
Growth regulators especially auxins and cytokinins are critical for plant in-vitro regeneration. The effect of these plant growth regulators on in-vitro propagation of Saccharum officinarum L (Sugarcane) was investigated. In vitro response of two different varieties of sugarcane (NCS 005 and NCS 008) to Plant Growth Regulators was obtained in this study. Formation of buds was obtained on shoot apical meristem when cultured on MS (Murashige and Skoog) medium supplemented with 0.1mg/l BAP (6-Benzylaminopurine). After two weeks of initiation, regenerated meristem was inoculated into MS (Murashige and Skoog) fortified with different concentrations and combination of cytokinins. Shoot multiplication was optimal on 0.5mg/l BAP + 0.25 mg/l Kin(Kinetin) for NCS 005 variety while for NCS 008 variety, no significant (P≥0.05) difference was observed between 1.5mg/l BAP and 1.5mg/l BAP +0.5mg/l Kin. The best root induction for in vitro derived shoots was obtained on 1.0 mg/l NAA (Naphthalene acetic acid) and 2.0 mg/l IBA( Indole butyric acid) for both varieties of sugarcane within ten days of culture transfer. Successfully established plantlets showed excellent growth response when weaned under regulated green house conditions.
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