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An Off-Season Road-Map on A Lazy Sunday
The 2011 season is in the books and while the season recaps will continue to pour out, let's cast our gaze forward as the Indians prepare for the most important off-season in recent memory as they attempt to maintain the momentum that their 2011 season got rolling. Additionally, they now find themselves in a position where they're trying to start to line some of these building blocks up to form a foundation that will last through just the end of 2013, perhaps embarking on the extended run of playoff contention that eluded them in the mid-to-late-2000s.
The only thing that is certain at this point is that the Indians' coaching staff will have a decidedly different look at Tim Tolman will not be back as bench coach (as we all wish him the best) and Sandy Alomar moves from the 1st Base Coaching Box to the role of Bench Coach…for now. Certainly Sandy may be up for the White Sox job, but the announcement that Alomar will be promoted to bench coach certainly has the feel of the Indians attempting to let Sandy know how well-thought-of he is within the organization if the White Sox were to come calling with a job offer that wasn't that of the manager. As for who will replace Sandy at 1B, Mike Sarbaugh would figure to be the leading candidate to emerge from the Minor Leagues (where he has dominated…if a Minor League manager can dominate) to work with the group of players that he's won titles with for the last three years. Seriously, Sarbaugh won titles in Akron in 2009 and in Columbus in 2010 and 2011…essentially with a good number of the same players that figure to populate the Indians' roster in 2012 and beyond. So, keeping him in the fold (and adding him to the parent club coaching staff) would be the logical move to provide some continuity for what is still a very young team.
But the Tolman/Alomar/Sarbaugh move is not the big one of the week as Tim Belcher announced that he would not be returning as the Tribe pitching coach in 2012. To me, pitching coaches are always a difficult thing to truly judge as Masterson made HUGE leaps forward and Carrasco and Tomlin showed signs of promise, but Carmona remained an enigma and Huff seemed to regress after spending some time on the parent club. Certainly, the Masterson evolution trumps pretty much everything else and it's more than just a good thing that Belcher will remain in the organization, but the Indians now find themselves in need of a pitching coach.
One obvious move would be to promote current bullpen coach Scott Radinsky to the position of pitching coach and bringing Ruben Niebla up from his pitching coach post in Columbus to handle the duties of the bullpen coach for 2012. Just as it would be with keeping Sarbaugh around this young group of players, expanding the roles of Radinsky (who did a GREAT job with the relievers this year) and Niebla would give the players some level of familiarity with the coaches. If the Indians were able to convince the Diamondbacks to allow Charles Nagy (who is Arizona's pitching coach) to make a lateral move because of his ties to Cleveland, he would be another name to consider as he was the Clippers' pitching coach in 2010 and would, again, have a working knowledge of the young Tribe arms. Then again, they could go off the board and bring in somebody completely different and while that would represent a sharp departure from everything that they've ever done, it is not outlandish to think that they could go for someone whose name is not at the front (or back) of anyone's mind right now.
Ultimately, the coaching staff will sort itself out (and talented players have a way of making coaching staffs look good), but with the season behind us, let's take a look at the moves that one man would make in this off-season in an attempt to position the Tribe for contention in 2012 and beyond. Much of this is not new ground if you've been coming around these parts, but I thought I'd put it all in one place, seeing as how talk will now turn to "what the Indians need to do/should do" with the off-season upon us. Again, some of these are ideas that you've seen before, but hang in there as they've been fleshed out a little more and "The Plan" (dare I use that term) builds up from the first suggestion to the last.
Of course, it's easy to say "they need a RH bat at 1B and a veteran starter", but if you've been coming around here for any stretch of time you know that…well, I'm not one to simply deal in these vagaries. Let's get specific and attempt to deal in reality with some of these proposed moves. If you want to call this reality a set of "ground rules", I attempted to stay within that $70M payroll number that's been predicted for the team and have attempted not to go all "ESPN Trade Machine" with trade suggestions, giving up players of value to net something close to equal value because…well, Luis Valbuena, Mitch Talbot, Trevor Crowe, and Beau Mills aren't attractive to anyone.
Yes, even if you put them in a package.
Nevertheless, here is the off-season "road-map" (if you will) for the Indians heading into 2012:
Pick up Carmona's option, Re-Negotiate Sizemore's option
Apparently, the Indians will have 3 days after the final game of the World Series to make these decisions, but this is something I wrote about not too long ago, so excuse the liberal cut-and-paste, but here's where I come down on each:
Fausto Carmona
For some hard numbers, consider that in 2010, Javier Vazquez posted a 5.32 ERA, a 1.40 WHIP for the Yankees. After that season, he signed a 1-year, $7M deal with the Marlins for the 2011 season. Certainly, Vazquez's 2009 with the Braves (2.87 ERA) played a role in the Marlins' decision to ink Vazquez as the Marlins likely thought that Vazquez would benefit from a change in scenery (out of Gotham) and could find his former self, but if Carmona's 2011 option is for $7M, doesn't it stand to reason that similar demand could exist for Carmona this off-season?
With the embarrassing dearth of starting pitching (particularly starting pitching available on the FA market) league-wide, these players are going to get more money than they're worth. That may not be telling any secrets, but just to keep the examples flying from last off-season, Brad Penny got a $3M deal last off-season from the Tigers after pitching only 55 innings with the Cards in 2010 and Brandon Webb got $3M in guaranteed money from Texas last off-season having pitched FOUR MLB innings the previous two seasons.
Going further, given some of the concerns about Fausto's conditioning, it could probably be argued that picking up this option may not be the best idea, in terms of motivation for Carmona, but looking at the other options on the FA SP market (is Edwin Jackson or Bruce Chen or Jeff Francis much more appealing…and what kind of money/years does it take to get those guys?) this off-season and with the idea that the Indians probably shouldn't count on Gomez/Huff/McAllister to take up TWO spots in the rotation, the Indians are best served turning their head, pinching their nose, and picking up Carmona's option for 2012, given that it's basically a one-year deal and the final year that these options for Carmona aren't patently outrageous (it's $9M next year and $12M in 2014) in terms of guaranteed money.
Grady Sizemore
Though I've been floating the idea of renegotiating Sizemore's deal for some time, Pluto says in his piece a couple of weekends ago that he would "offer Sizemore a contract with a $3 million base and lots of incentives. It can even be hooked into a lucrative long-term deal if he plays 120 games, or some other indication of durability." Let's use this as a starting point and get a little creative with a possible solution that allows the Indians to minimize some risk, keep Sizemore on the team with reachable incentives that become lucrative for Grady, and find some common ground here.
As a starting point, the Indians would guarantee Sizemore's $9M option, but make it payable over 3 years with those games-played-based incentives that Pluto suggested built in so Sizemore (if healthy) could earn a salary at a rate commensurate with what a healthy Sizemore would earn on the open market. Remember, they did this with Pavano a couple of years ago, with incentives tied to innings pitched building upon a base salary as Pavano's health was in question and the Indians' creativity is what brought Pavano onto The Reservation.
Regardless, follow me on this:
2012 - $3M guaranteed, potential for additional $6M for 140 games played
$3M guaranteed base
Additional $1.5M for 80 games played
Another additional $1.5M for 100 games played
Another additional $1.5M for 120 games played
A final additional $1.5M for 140 games played
In this scenario, he's guaranteed $3M in 2012 and could earn up to the $9M if he plays in 140 games, earning healthy bumps in pay as he plays in games throughout the season.
2013 - $3M guaranteed, potential for additional $8M for 140 games played
$3M guaranteed base
Additional $2M for 80 games played
Another additional $2M for 100 games played
Another additional $2M for 120 games played
A final additional $2M for 140 games played
Again, Sizemore has that $3M guaranteed with the ability to earn $11M if he hits that 140 game plateau.
2014 - $3M guaranteed, potential for additional $10M for 140 games played
$3M guaranteed base
Additional $2.5M for 80 games played
Another additional $2.5M for 100 games played
Another additional $2.5M for 120 games played
A final additional $2.5M for 140 games played
You're getting the point here, as Grady will still get the $3M guaranteed (the final 1/3 of that $9M club option) in 2014 with the possibility that he could earn $13M if he stayed healthy enough to play in 140 games.
Again, you can read the whole piece again as I'm truthfully just cutting-and-pasting here as I'll stand by these thoughts on both Carmona and Sizemore, whose club options in their extensions once seemed like such a deal.
Speaking of club options in extensions (that hopefully the team doesn't regret) for young players…
Extend Asdrubal Cabrera & Justin Masterson
Again, this is a topic that I hit on very recently (last week), but these are the offers I'm putting on the table to these two, with the rationale behind each extension offer contained in the linked piece and the deals looking a little something like this:
Asdrubal Carrera Contract Extension
2015 - $12M club option ($1M buyout)
2016 - $13M club option ($2M buyout)
Justin Masterson Contract Extension
2016 - $13M club option ($0.245M buyout)
2017 - $13.5M club option ($0.5M buyout)
All of the rationale for the years and the numbers above are in this piece…but really the first two "topics" on Carmona/Sizemore and Cabrera/Masterson are really just handling internal business and nothing new around these parts.
As for augmenting the roster externally, how about a solution for that 1B problem?
Trade Chris Perez to the Marlins for Gaby Sanchez
This is something that's been alluded to in the past, but with Prince Fielder and Albert Pujols hitting the FA market this off-season and with the Red Sox and the Yankees not really in the market for a 1B, the final destinations for Prince and Pujols could be fairly interesting. While neither will land at the corner of Carnegie and Ontario, the idea that the team that they sign with could have an "extra" 1B to use as trade bait is the rationale for Gaby Sanchez even being available. Again, the rationale for this trade idea can be found here, but Fielder and Pujols are essentially an upgrade over ANY team's current 1B situation and there is always one team in MLB that's ready to make that "splash" in FA that nobody sees coming. For whatever reason, the inclusion of the Marlins in rumors about Prince/Pujols reminds me of the Nationals' pursuit of Jayson Werth last year and with the Marlins moving to a new stadium, with a new manager, and a new name (yep, they're the Miami Marlins now), it is not outside the realm of possibility that one of them…um, takes his talent to South Beach.
If they did, the Indians should act quickly to go after Sanchez, a 28-year-old 1B with consistent, if not outstanding, numbers over the last two years. He's a RH bat that is under club control through the 2015 season and isn't even arbitration-eligible until after next season. He's an average defender who has lacked the power of a "traditional" 1B, but in light of the internal alternatives for the Tribe, Sanchez's steady bat in the lineup would be a major upgrade…and it would represent more than just a band-aid at 1B. Whether the Marlins would consider a one-for-one swap for C. Perez remains to be seen, but Perez is about to get more expensive via arbitration and if the Indians are looking to pare some money off of their payroll to make additions via FA, moving Perez for a league-minimum player like Sanchez makes sense.
Perhaps Ozzie Guillen wouldn't have any interest in adding Perez after seeing him up close over the last couple of years (and Perez was not good against the White Sox this year), but if we know Ozzie…he doesn't do well with unsettled bullpens. With Leo Nunez (or whatever his name really is) doesn't figure to come back to the Marlins in 2012 (or even if he does), the Marlins could be in the market for bullpen help and the Indians may be their trade partner, particularly if Florida…um, Miami is willing to add salary, even if that salary is just for a closer.
Maybe it takes more for the Indians to pry Sanchez away from the Marlins and maybe Prince/Pujols end up elsewhere, making this entire concept a moot point, but the Indians should follow the bouncing ball that is the "Prince & Pujols Show" this off-season to see if they can find the 1B that they so desperately need via trade, acquiring a player whose spot may be taken by either Fielder or Pujols.
As for moving C. Perez, this is not a new suggestion in these parts, and I'd take Pestano and insert him into the 9th inning role, with Sipp and Smith sliding back into the 7th and 8th inning roles with the idea that one of (some of) the young arms that stand at the precipice of Cleveland can fill in the bottom rungs of the bullpen ladder.
Trade Rafael Perez, Jeanmar Gomez, and Cord Phelps, to the Mets for Jon Niese
Since most of the talk of adding to the starting rotation for 2011 has focused on adding a "veteran" starting pitcher, the usual suspects in the scrap heap start to make their way onto the Indians' radar…at least according to most reports that come out. However, after White and Pomz were traded, there's little question that the Indians' rotational depth was affected and the effect of moving both White and Pomz is not something that's going away anytime soon…unless Zach McAllister and/or Scott Barnes really assert themselves into the parent club's plans to be more than the back-end-of-the-rotation fodder. Additionally, with the uncertainty that Carmona will be back after his 2012 season and with the outside chance that Tomlin turns back into a pumpkin, the Indians should be aggressive in targeting some younger pitchers that may be undervalued by their current teams, but who are under club control for a couple of years, even if it means acquiring arms that may be approaching arbitration.
As you can see above, I'm not talking trading for the Wandy Rodriguezes and Ricky Nolascos of the world, as I'd prefer to see the Indians target a starting pitcher (preferably LH) that actually is a "veteran" starter – in that they've logged significant innings in MLB – but who may be available because of their recent performance that has underwhelmed their current team and make an aggressive push for them. Pitchers like Toronto's Brett Cecil and the Mets' Jon Niese fit this profile as neither will be confused for front-end-of-the-rotation arms and each has thrown nearly 400 MLB IP. That may not be a "veteran" starter in the truest sense of the word, but the Indians need to add a piece that doesn't simply represent an option to throw into the 5th starter mix in Goodyear. Rather, if they're serious about making a move in 2012 (and, more importantly, PAST 2012), adding an arm to the middle-of-the-rotation would improve the team dramatically.
Since a friend of mine (who has an awfully good handle on the Blue Jays) passed along word to me that Brett Cecil would represent a slight upgrade or maybe comparative value to Dave Huff, asserting that Cecil's 2010 season was the outlier, not his 2011 season, I'll put the focus on acquiring Niese here. The focus falls to Niese mainly because he – like Cecil – is LH, under club control for a while, and may be seen as an ancillary part to their current team. By that I mean that Niese's 2011 line of a 4.40 ERA, 1.41 WHIP, and a 89 ERA+ is underwhelming and since it mirrors his 2010 season (4.20 ERA, 1.46 WHIP, 94 ERA+), perhaps the Mets feel that this is what Niese is and may make him available for the right package.
The reason that a player like Niese would be intriguing would be his age (he turns 25 next month), his ability to generate K (286 K in his last 331 IP over the last two seasons), and the fact that he's LH…a "quality" that is currently lacking in the Indians' pitching depth, outside of Scotty Barnes and, to a lesser degree, Dave Huff. If you look deeper at Niese's numbers, he posted the 17th best FIP (3.36) in the NL among pitchers with more than 150 IP and actually finished higher than that among the same group with a 3.28 xFIP, 10th best among NL pitchers with more than 150 IP. His 3.14 K/BB rate ranked 14th among NL starters (just ahead of Matt Garza) and his 7.89 K/9 rate ranked 16th among NL starters...this time just behind Ian Kennedy.
So…why would the Mets be willing to trade a 24-year-old LHP with those numbers?
Well, in some regards, Niese's last two years are merely fair – in terms of the mid-4.00 ERA and the WHIP over 1.40 – meaning that Niese may be undervalued in some circles. Additionally, with the Mets needing to make some very difficult decisions about their future, they may be looking to add multiple pieces and parts that factor into their future. The Mets' bullpen needs a complete overhaul and 2B has been an absolute disaster for them, so perhaps the Indians (with bullpen depth and a glut of 2B) could provide them with some pieces in Rafael Perez and Cord Phelps. If you look back at the initial trade proposal, I included Gomez in there in give the Mets a young arm for their rotation that they would control for longer than Niese and who may see his numbers improve in the NL.
Though this may seem like quite a bit to give up (to some) for a pitcher that had a 4.40 ERA in the NL last year, realize (again) that the only way to get value on the Trade Market is to give up value. Rafael Perez is still an unquestionably valuable reliever and Phelps' performance in AAA this year suggests that he simply needs an extended opportunity to thrive in MLB at 2B (something that isn't happening in Cleveland) with Gomez's youth (still 23) offsetting some of the concerns that exist about his inability to strike hitters out.
Maybe the Mets have their eye on guys like Brantley (they need a long-term solution in the OF) or Marson (they need a long-term solution at C) or perhaps the Mets would prefer Donald over Phelps…and I don't think the inclusion of any of those players is outrageous. Adding an arm like Niese – under club control through the 2015 season – is the kind of long-term move (that improves their short-term outlook) that the Indians should be looking at. Maybe the name isn't Jonathan Niese and maybe the Mets aren't the match, but the Indians' rotation has question marks past Justin Masterson and a team that is looking to contend in 2012 and beyond needs to have more rotational answers than question marks.
Sign Mike Cuddyer to a 3-year, $30M deal
Wait…you've already kept Sizemore and added Sanchez, what is this about?
Frankly, I'm not counting on Sizemore to be completely healthy to start the season, nor am I counting on Hafner to be healthy throughout the season. So while signing Cuddyer when all of the positions seem to be spoken for looks like overkill, the idea to sign him would essentially provide insurance for Sizemore and/or Hafner being hurt in 2012.
Is that a big insurance policy that you're willing to pay a premium for?
Absolutely, and the Indians need to approach this off-season to almost plan for either Sizemore and/or Hafner NOT being available, despite the money that's going to be owed to them. As for where this Cuddyer money would come from (remember, I'm trying to stay within the $70M payroll number), the Indians would take the money saved by re-negotiating Sizemore's contract (savings of $6M in 2012 if they re-negotiate as outlined above) trading Chris Perez and Rafael Perez and their assumed arbitration numbers (let's say a savings of $6M combined) to spread out in a couple of ways. First, there would be the additional money for 2012 added to the Cabrera and Masterson extensions to buy out those FA years and plus what they'll pay Gaby Sanchez and Jon Niese in their pre-arbitration years to come up with enough money for this contract for Cuddyer. Essentially, it hinges on re-negotiating the Sizemore deal and moving Perez's assumed 2012 salary, but if you figure that Hafner's money will come off of the books after 2012, this year is the only one in which the Indians would have to get creative to afford a deal like this for Cuddyer.
Why add Cuddyer?
Well, Cuddyer had the 23rd best wOBA (.354) in the AL in 2011 and posted the 30th best OPS (.806) in the AL in 2011 and played 1B, RF, 2B, and DH. For a team in need of a flexible bat and a RH bat to sit in the middle of their lineup, Cuddyer looks like a perfect fit. Over the last 3 years, Cuddyer has posted a .276 BA / .341 OBP / .465 SLG / .806 OPS / 117 OPS+ while averaging 22 HR, 33 2B, and 5 2B while averaging 150 games played per year. Of course it is worth noting that he is 32 years old and two full seasons from his tremendous (32 HR, .867 OPS) 2009 campaign, but his numbers since 2009 actually compare pretty favorably with the rest of MLB. Sure, he's not in the upper echelon of players (much less hitters) in MLB, but he's a steady player who has performed well and is likely to continue that consistent performance for the next couple of years.
Will he cost more than he's probably worth on the FA market?
Yep, but do you want to know why the abysmal season from Matt LaPorta is so disappointing?
Because this is what a 20-HR RH bat costs on the FA market and with Hafner's contract expiring after 2012 (I know he has that option) and with so many question marks regarding Sizemore's health and with Choo under club control through only 2013, adding a versatile player like Cuddyer fits what the Indians need – a RH bat that can sit near the middle-of-the-lineup and move around the diamond as needed. Additionally, once Hafner moves on after the 2012 season, Cuddyer could slot into a quasi-DH role with his versatility giving different players breaks from the field by allowing them to get days off or switch spots with Cuddyer at DH. Essentially, having Cuddyer as the "DH" wouldn't kill the roster flexibility in the way that Hafner has as Cuddyer's ability to play all around the diamond would give the Tribe some much-needed breathing room at the DH spot…in 2013.
Would some of the "top-shelf" FA look better than Cuddyer?
Of course, but in this Brave New World of MLB, the Indians aren't going to sit at the table with the Fielder and Pujols to crunch numbers if they're going to venture out on the FA market and that "second-tier" of players is the top-end of where they realistically get to choose. It is true that Cuddyer probably projects to be a Type A FA (refresher on this and draft compensation here), meaning that the Indians would sacrifice a draft pick to sign him. However, the Indians are going to pick 15th in next year's draft, which means that their 1st Round Pick would be protected if they signed a Type A FA (which Cuddyer is) and would sacrifice a 2nd Round Pick instead.
So, I suppose that final lost weekend in Detroit was good for something…
Of course, the question is bound to come up in all of this player movement that if the Tribe renegotiates Grady's deal AND adds Sanchez AND adds Cuddyer where that leaves Mike Brantley in all of this. To that I would say that despite the fact that the Indians aren't thrilled with Brantley's play in CF, he would slot over there if Sizemore didn't start the season in MLB or if he got injured and, if Sizemore was healthy, Brantley would move into the 4th OF role. It's probably wouldn't be a strict 4th OF role as (again) Cuddyer would be signed to be moving around quite a bit around the diamond and, frankly, Brantley's 2011 season was less than inspiring.
There you have it and I'm not going to include the notion of adding a veteran reliever at some point because it would be a minor move. That said, if the Indians do in fact move TWO relievers out via trade in the Perezes and if you assume that Durbin isn't coming back, the Indians are going to need some sort of a veteran middle reliever to sit there and eat up innings, unless that's what Frank Herrmann is going to do…or maybe even Mitch Talbot in a long-man role.
When it's all said and done, the roster would have much more balance in terms of handedness and the bench would provide some exceptional depth in case of (or is it when) injury or injuries occur:
C – Santana
1B – Sanchez
2B – Kipnis
SS – Cabrera
3B – Chisenhall
RF – Choo
CF – Sizemore
LF – Cuddyer
DH – Hafner
Bench – Marson
Bench – Donald
Bench – Duncan
Bench – Brantley
You'll notice that Jack Hannahan is missing from this group but with Donald on hand and with Cuddyer's versatility, there simply isn't room for Hannahan, as fantastic as he has been this season and as much as he provides that insurance for The Chiz going forward. However, if the Indians are really looking to upgrade their roster, there will be some casualties and, in working this up, Hannahan was felled.
As for the pitching staff, the rotation would also be more balanced in terms of handedness with the addition of Niese and, though it would seem that the strength of the team (the bullpen) has been compromised by moving the Perezes out via trade, the remaining arms have more than enough talent to remain successful. Of course, those are famous last words (expecting success out of any mix of bullpen arms), but if Vinnie Pestano and Tony Sipp can arrive in the manner they did this year, it provides some optimism that players like Hagadone or Putnam or CC Lee could follow on this path. Regardless,
SP – Masterson
SP – Jimenez
SP – Niese
SP – Carmona
SP – Tomlin
Closer – Pestano
RP – Sipp
RP – Smith
RP – Reliever
RP – Hagadone
RP – Putnam
RP – Herrmann
There you have it, that's one man's plan for the off-season…and in less than 5,000 words!
Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to step away from this place for a while.
After years of putting my thoughts to paper (so to speak), I'm going to take some time off from thinking about and writing about the Indians. I've been dropping 10,000 words a week on you for long enough…and thanks to you for working your way through the thousands of words every couple of days for the last few years searching for some sort of analysis and meaning.
It's entirely possible that I poke my head out every so often with thoughts on the comings and goings of the Tribe (so subscribe to the RSS feed or the Twitter feed if you want to be alerted as such) and while I don't figure to disappear completely, the time has arrived for me to take a big step back from this endeavor and fully move into the true joys of my life, my wonderful wife (you may know her as The DiaBride), who amazingly put up with this "hobby" as long as she did, and my burgeoning family on The Reservation.
See you when I see you and…Go Tribe!

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WABC in New York reports that "detectives believe they know the driver's name, and are showing his photo to possible witnesses. Meanwhile, the woman who had co-signed the BMW's lease is charged with insurance fraud."
The Glaubers, both Orthodox Jews, were mourned at funerals later in the day on Sunday. The AP notes that "Jewish law calls for burial of the dead as soon as possible."
Update at 11 a.m. ET. "God Is Punishing Me":
At the funeral Sunday for Raizy Glauber, her father said that "God is punishing me for my sins by taking away my daughter," New York's Daily News reports. With the baby's death, the Daily News adds, "the horror of a young Brooklyn couple killed in a hit-and-run accident became a triple tragedy."
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One of the many new technologies for KDE 4 is the often mentioned, but seldom explained Solid hardware API. Hardware has always been a bit of an annoying element of using Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems, but Solid hopes to fix that for KDE 4. In many ways, Solid is like Phonon, in that it's a Qt/KDE style API around already existing components at the lower level, such as freedesktop.org's HAL. It is already quite functional in the backend, and it's already affecting visible KDE components. Read on for more...
Solid is an API for accessing device information such as available disks or networks. It does not deal with device drivers, leaving that to the OS. It does not deal with low level device information, leaving that to already existing, and very good tools such as HAL or other underlying subsystems.
Solid was introduced to the KDE world at large at aKademy, and the first signs of work were the appearance of its website. Since then it has mostly flown under the radar, with the odd mention here and there thanks to Danny Allen's Commit-Digests, or the occasional blog posting on the planet. If you visit the #solid channel at irc.kde.org (freenode), you'll find that it's sparsely populated, and mostly quiet. But appearances can be deceiving...
Solid's code base has been growing steadily for the last year and a half, with many parts of it becoming stable and usable already. In fact, things like Dolphin and the File Dialog are already using it in places to do removable storage management.
Internally, Solid is broken up into a variety of hardware domains, with each domain operating somewhat independently. For example:
One of the long term problems with UNIX ease of use has been access to removable devices. Many solutions have come up in the past, including kernel-based automounters (Mandrake of several years ago). HAL is the most recent project to tackle removable devices, and it does so quite well, but some distros still ship without, preventing across the board progress. KDE is building a generic API for removable devices so that applications don't have to know what's happening in the background. And by removable devices, I mean any removable devices, not just storage. Solid already does removable audio devices, laptop batteries and more...
Currently, the only backend supported is HAL, so removable devices will require HAL for KDE 4. Other backends for other OS's may be developed down the road, as HAL does not exist for every platform, but it should cover many of the more common UNIX platforms. One could even, if they really wanted to, write a backend that interfaced directly to the kernel.
It's not all just about removable hardware, but also about what is built into your system. Phonon uses Solid to detect available sound devices on your system, and can seamlessly switch between output devices, including hotpluggable sound devices. You may remember this from the demonstration in the Phonon article from several weeks back of switching audio devices on-the-fly. This is not just Phonon you're seeing, but also Solid providing the available device list.
There are other domains underway, including incorporating existing functionality from the NetworkManager Program into Solid so that more KDE applications can become aware of it. Most of the work will be done by a backend daemon that already handles ethernet and wireless ethernet (WiFi) connections, assuming the underlying drivers are available, and includes most forms of wireless encryption that exist. By the end of this week, VPN and dialup support should be available. We'll have to see what happens to KPPP as a result of this progress, but programs like this still have a role to play. The goal of this network work is to allow KDE applications to have a real implementation of an "offline mode", so you can read your mail, etc. without programs complaining about a lack of net connections. Will Stephenson suggests that cellular connections could automatically disconnect when no program is using the network, and so forth, and many other valuable applications will emerge as KDE 4 develops.
A third domain is Power Management, which is one of those areas on the Desktop where each distribution has done their own thing. Hopefully distributions featuring KDE 4 will present a more unified Power Manager interface. This domain presents an API that lets you configure and tune power and resource consumption of various elements within your system. This one is once again powered by HAL.
And very recently, Bluetooth support has been added. While it's still very young, it already allows device detection and connection. This is one I couldn't test, as I do not own a bluetooth device. :)
There is a very nice command line utility to interface with the various elements of Solid's API from scripts, or if you just want some manual control over your hardware. This program is called 'solidshell' and ships alongside the Solid libraries as part of kdelibs. An example command would be solidshell network set wireless disabled or solidshell hardware list details which will query HAL and return a list of all sorts of devices alongside some information about their capabilities. For those of you that have KDE 4 installed and want to test this feature, solidshell --commands is your friend.
Down the road, support for more devices within the Solid framework is definitely possible. I can imagine support for using additional input devices on-the-fly, or using Solid to detect changes in display (new monitor plugged in) so that it becomes easier to deal with X display settings on the fly. These domains are not yet a part of Solid, but with this architecture, they should be possible down the road.
How to help:
Kevin Ottens (aka "ervin"), the Solid lead developer, has a few suggestions for those willing to help Solid progress. The first thing he suggests is to use the API - the more applications that take advantage of Solid's features, the more complete the API will become. Also for developers, if you wish to extend Solid to other domains, or add backends for systems that are not supported by HAL, help is welcome.
Other ways to help include testing hardware, and reporting problems. Especially useful are reports of hardware that for some reason works in KDE 3.x, but doesn't work with Solid/HAL in KDE 4. If you find one of these, I'm sure the Solid developers would like to hear about it.
Editorial Aside:
While there has been some adoption of HAL (a freedesktop.org project for hardware detection and more) by distributions, each distribution has (generally) in the past had their own implementation of hardware configuration and control interfaces. KDE of old had a policy of leaving hardware to the distributions, so this situation is partially one of our own making. However with the advent of HAL and now Solid, it is hoped that a more uniform system of hardware config and control will arise. Therefore, the KDE developers request that as distributions take a look at KDE 4 for adoption, they consider migrating their in-house hardware control solutions upstream into Solid, thereby benefitting all KDE users and making user support easier to provide by the community. The ongoing work of the distributions to make hardware better for their users is always appreciated - hopefully these new KDE technologies will facilitate collaboration.
Until next time...
Another great article!
Solid sounds very promising. One area where I would like to see Linux improve is power management. Linux (Kubuntu Feisty here) drains the battery faster than Windows. If I understand it correctly though the dynamic tick patch that's included in upcomming 2.6.21 kernel should help with that: http://lwn.net/Articles/138969/
What about the windows port of KDE4, if Solid can only manage unix-like systems?
What makes you think Solid can only support unix systems? It may be the case, that currently only support for unix systems is implemented.
But that's exactly why Solid is so useful. There only needs to be a Solid-backend for Windows (and OS X, and ...) implemented to make hardware-interaction reality for all KDE-appliations on that new platform. And that without changeing a single line of code in the applications.
I go along with you, there's no Solid-backend for Windows, therefore Solid can't manage Windows, therefore a lot of things from KDE4 won't work with windows, but It was said KDE4 will run with windows...
> but It was said KDE4 will run with windows...
Like the rest of KDE, it will only happen if contributors make it so. The major difference with respect to Windows between KDE 3 and KDE 4 is the licensing change for Qt which makes it possible to legally develop and distribute KDE software on the platform.
That's quite a leap there... Has it not occurred to you that the people porting KDE to Windows might, as part of the port, write a Solid backend? KDE's not due out for another six months or so, a lot can happen in that time..
No, it was said that individual KDE4 apps will be able to run on windows. Not the complete environment. This main focus will still be on unix.
There will surely be a Solid backend for windows sometime, but it might not be included in KDE 4.0.
and there will be lots of things that do work on windows even without solid functioning properly. same with phonon.
what you're missing here, and which has been touched on by others, is that this isn't a hand out. it isn't a hand-out on linux, bsd, solaris or the other unixes, and it won't be on windows or mac os either.
people working on the windows platform can write a backend for solid, a backend for phonon, etc. what we've done is made this _possible_. now it is up to the people who have this itch to start scratching it.
it'll happen, because it can happen.
Actually KDE 4.0.0 will probably only have a Windows beta released at most (thats what the word is).
KDE 4 is going to be with us for a while, all its features won't come at once!
If someone wishes to write a Phonon backend
for OpenAL, Windows or PortAudio, irrKlang
here's some documentation:
Windows Sound API:
#pragma lib "winmm.lib"
BOOL PlaySound( LPCSTR pszSound, HMODULE hmod, DWORD fdwSound );
BOOL successful = PlaySound("explosion.wav", NULL, SND_FILENAME | SND_ASYNC | SND_LOOP);
MCI PlayBack:
"open myfile.wav type waveaudio alias myfile",
lpszReturnString, lstrlen(lpszReturnString), NULL);
mciSendString("play myfile", lpszReturnString,
lstrlen(lpszReturnString), NULL);
mciSendString("close myfile", lpszReturnString,
lstrlen(lpszReturnString), NULL);
Other examples:
- http://www.codeproject.com/audio/midiwrapper.asp
- http://www.portaudio.com/ for Windows, Macintosh (8,9,X), Unix (OSS), SGI, and BeOS
- http://portaudio.com/docs/v19-doxydocs/
- http://www.openal.org/
- ftp://126.96.36.199/OpenAL_Programmers_Guide.pdf
- http://www.ambiera.com/irrklang/
- http://www.onasticksoftware.co.uk/oas-audio.html
- http://www.voiceage.com/codeclib.php
- DirectSound: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb219818.aspx
- http://www.codeproject.com/audio/dxsnd.asp
- http://www.programmersheaven.com/2/FAQ-DIRECTX-Difference-Between-Direct...
- http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/g-m/multimedia/article.php/c1575/
- http://www.codeguru.com/cpp/g-m/multimedia/audio/article.php/c1561/
- http://www.codeproject.com/info/search.asp?target=master+volume&Submit1=...
- http://www.hal9k.com/cug/links/subject169.htm
- http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/
- http://www.codeproject.com/audio/
- http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa816369.aspx
Other API
- http://www2.hawaii.edu/~hermany/api.htm
- http://libusb-win32.sourceforge.net/
- http://osdir.com/ml/security.forensics/2005-02/msg00002.html
- USB devices are created dynamically in: HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Enum\USBStor\*
Network API:
- http://www.sockets.com/sample.htm
- http://www.auditmypc.com/process/msnet32.asp
The solid webpage mentions a hardware browser. Has this program
materialized yet? I would like to try it out, but I have yet to
find such a program after building KDE4. Is solidshell right now
the only way to see what hardware is detected?
The hardware browser is still in Solid work branch where Solid work began.
I started the hardware browser but I left it because I have higher priority in KDE.
It is 'solidshell --commands', not 'solidshell --comands'.
Copy-paste doesn't work that way. )
Heh - I was playing with solidshell in one X session (KDE 4) and writing the article in the other X session (KDE 3), so I wasn't copy'n'pasting. Which means it's just a typo on my part :) Maybe one of the dot editors can fix it :)
Cheers :)
Hey, this article got pushed through to the dot just as I was in discussion with Ervin and Will about a few changes that took place during the Solid-Phonon sprint last week. So, while this article was accurate when I wrote it, some small changes have already taken place...
First: the term 'domains' has disappeared. Solid has been split into a hardware detection frame (mostly a KDE style API for HAL and friends) and a configuration framework that has just moved into kdebase. This was done to lighten kdelibs, and clean up the API.
And yes, this stuff is part of KDE 4 in trunk already, so you'll be able to snag it as part of Alpha 1 on May 1 (assuming no delays).
as now KDE is adopting more freedesktop standard ( DBUS, XDG ..) can you please write an article about how the next version of KDE will bring as enhassement to make other non qt application( gtk mainely) better integrated to KDE
because honestly it is a nosense situation to see that for example FIREFOX is better integrated to windows xp then to KDE
friendly mimoune
> because honestly it is a nosense situation to see that for example FIREFOX is
> better integrated to windows xp then to KDE
It is also a nonsense complaining with us. Please report to Firefox, thanks.
You are right here. However, it hits you with a certain surprise that key applications as firefox do not integrate well enough.
Not a KDE dev myself, but I'll repeat what was already said: Firefox isn't a KDE app, therefore not the responsibility of KDE.
Want a slap in the face? Run Firefox on OS X. That's a major surprise. :-> I've yet to get the Firefox Quicksilver plugin to work properly.
But back to KDE: I agree, I wish there were more work done to integrate GTK+ apps into KDE. But short of people patching GTK+ apps to work more closely with KDE, what should be done, eh? GTK+ apps also tend to be GNOME apps, which is a similar-yet-completely-different desktop designed to replace KDE, with some work going into integrating Firefox into GNOME (though it doesn't integrate well with GNOME either.) I don't think you'll see a KDE-friendly GNOME anytime soon, but that's my own opinion from the perspective of an outsider ;-D
The point of Freedesktop.org is to allow Gnome and KDE to work together where we can. HAL was created with the aim of making something useful for both desktops. Dbus is based on dcop, but the goal wasn't just to improve dbus, but to make something more useful for Gnome. There are many other little things going on there.
KDE and GNOME disagree on things like keyboard shortcuts. Both sides of excellent reasons behind their defaults, so it is unlikely we will ever come together.
Toolkit issues (gtk vs qt) are trivial to work around. A lot of effort is going in in this. Have you noticed that copy and paste works a lot better between applications now? That is because freedesktop.org defined how it should work, and the toolkits all do the same thing now. Expect to see more in the future - but only where there is an agreed upon best way. When there are two equally good ways of doing something we are better off if the two desktops go their own way (yet attempt to work together in everything else)
There is the GTK-QT theme, and there are ways to easilly use the KDE filedialogs in those applications (note, from gnome, there are no ways I know off to do the reverse). Aside from that, tell me what specific things you expect from the KDE developers? Most work for integration will have to come from the firefox (or other app) ppl...
"Aside from that, tell me what specific things you expect from the KDE developers? Most work for integration will have to come from the firefox (or other app) ppl..."
integrating with KDE4 GTK-QT for example.
Ubuntu uses Gnome, gnome apps are popular. Also users from windows now Thunderbird, Firefox etc and will use them. So it is important to show gtk in KDE as much consistient as it is possible.
integrating with KDE4 GTK-QT for example.
Yes, this theme is written by a KDE engineer to let Gnome apps fit in the KDE environment. You can find it (if installed) in Kcontrol: style and look of Gnome apps -> let Gnome apps use my KDE style. It's lovely, that's why I mentioned it... and it would be indeed great if it where ported to KDE 4.
Anyway, I wouldn't say this is something that is lacking - it's already there, not ported yet but there is no reason to not expect it to be ported, I guess. And such a theme doesn't exist on the gnome side, you can't let your KDE apps look like gnome apps. That's why Trolltech created the clearlooks-for-Qt4 style, to make KDE apps look like gnome apps. Qt 4 even automatically reverses ok/cancel button order when run in Gnome (again, gnome apps don't do such a thing). Trolltech also made it possible to plug GTK code in KDE/Qt apps, maybe in the future KDE apps will use gnome filedialogs (poor users...) when running in Gnome.
In other words, most integrative work comes from KDE/Trolltech already.
Now, as I already mentioned gtk-qt, anything I did NOT mention, and which is NOT being done, and which CAN be done by KDE in a reasonable time, which you would like to see?
> there are ways to easilly use the KDE filedialogs in those applications (note, from gnome, there are no ways I know off to do the reverse).
Ages ago KDE published some proof-of-concept work to allow GTK+ apps to access the Qt main event loop, allowing them to use KDE/Qt dialogs: http://dot.kde.org/1073668213/
Looks like nobody was interested.
And now, Qt4 uses the glib main loop.
no it doesn't. qt4 still has its own event loop. but you can now integrate a glib eventloop into a qt4 application.
*no it doesn't.*
Yes it does. Copy and pasted from qt 4.2 configure script:
-no-glib............ Do not compile Glib support.
+ -glib............... Compile Glib support.
Glib support means, using the Glib event loop
i had got a lot of expectation from the next KDE, i thought it will be independant from any particular OS,any particular language, independant from engines( xine, gstreamer etc)and even of course it use QT as the main toolkit, other toolkits as GTK, java or whatever will get the same love. i.e; integration using some open standard
we users, we just want applicationn we don't even care/know what is the toolkit used, we are just fed up with all those stupid Kde vs Gnome, GPL QT vs LGPL GTK
ok perhaps i am just a stupid dreamer.
@superstoned hi man, opensuse rock
well, thats just you.
what you want is totaly impossible. where did you ever read kde4 would do this!?
users should learn that allready care. they want features. features don't come out of nowhere....
I would be very happy to have GTK apps to support the KDe toplevel menu mode.
Anyway, on kubuntu feisty you don't really see a difference anymore. It is like people see a crystal theme and think its a KDE app etc.
The about window is different for GTK apps but that's all. And the rest is integration.
Sorry, but do you have any idea what a toolkit is? it's like bricks, you use to build an application. If you want to change the type of bricks a house is build upon, you must rebuild the house. So is Qt in KDE - you can't remove it, that's just totally impossible.
KDE 4 is independant of a OS, sound engines, language, hardware, but not of it's toolkit - that's just not possible.
KDE has gone out of it's way to integrate gnome apps in KDE - Qt can indeed use the glib event loop so you can use gtk code in KDE apps, Qt 4 automatically reverses the button order (cancel/OK) depending on it's environment, non-kde apps can easilly use the KDE file dialog (so when they detect they're running in KDE, they could use that) and there is the GTK-QT theme which hopefully will be ported to KDE 4, which lets Gnome apps use the KDE style, colors and icons. Qt even has a style similair to the Gnome Clearlooks style, because the gnome ppl haven't offered something like the GTK-QT style to integrate KDE apps in Gnome.
So KDE has done it's part, imho. It won't solve the flamewars, ppl just love to hate things, but I don't think end-users ever really cared about the difference between KDE and Gnome apps. On windows, you have far more styles and weird looking applications (eg compare IE7 with MS Word 2007 with MS Outlook 2007 with Media player 2007 with the latest messenger with notepad and you've got such a mess it's hard to believe - still windows users never complain. Same with mac, which has had a pletora of different styles in mac OS X, nobody cared).
eh ok i am not a developer, but i know what is a toolkit, i even used java swing when i was at university.
suppose i am new ISV to linux desktop, i want to develop a closed source software under linux and i don't want to pay trolltech for using the commercial licence for whatever reason ( anyway he already don't pay microsoft for developping software under windows) so what's the answear ?
i see KDE, as THE DESKTOP for linux, not one of many DE, so any enhassement to make GTK even better integrated it is welcome, after all it is a free software.
windows development isn't free. you have to buy a windows license at least. if you seriously want to make windows apps you also will buy visual studio, and if you have more than a hand full of developers you will pay for msdn.
For any non-trivial project the effort of doing what qt does automatically will cost more (as in $$$ you pay your developers to create the same thing) than then buying qt licenses.
Developers know this and keep telling non-developers this, but it never seems to sink in. No I don't work for trolltech. I am a developer though, and trolltech has done large parts of UI work that I find boring. (OTOH I get excited about individual bits on a wire, where I'm sure the trolltech guys would be bored out of their mind)
Well, I'll put up a vote for scanners as a hardware 'domain' to be added to Solid, but I'm not seeing it happening until 4.1 :-)
I am no friend of HAL. KDE is adopting a lot of material that has it seeds in the GNOME area. HAL is no solution at all - making it hard getting KDE or GNOME stuff ported to other operating systems.
And the reverse is happening as well. DBus is definitely inspired by dcop, and in most projects the 2(+) groups create the stardard together. HAL is meant to be portable to non-Linux OSes (even though afaik most ports don't exist yet). Fortunately Solid doesn't DEPEND on HAL, HAL is simply a backend for it, so that way if something better comes along, KDE can dump HAL in a heart beat and not break the API/ABI as well as not having to rewrite any applications.
I really don't care which camp comes up with or seeds the ideas, just getting cooperation between the camps on the stuff that has pretty much only been different for the sake of being different (the icon naming scheme is one example).
Also to address your last sentence, Solid using HAL as a backend on platforms with HAL available won't make it any harder to port KDE apps to different platforms. All it'll take is 1 person making a Solid backend for the platform and then the porting is done, instead of having to port all the hardware related stuff in EVERY single KDE app one at a time (not to mention all the developers having to reinvent the wheel for each platform).
Exactly. Solid and Phonon make it possible for KDE apps to not depend directly on HAL etc to get the job done on other platforms, whereas GNOME made the pragmatic decision to tightly couple to HAL, gstreamer, NetworkManager etc.
HAL itself is an abstraction layer portable to other platforms.
yeah, and how many does it support? Windows, Mac OS X, BSD and Linux, I suppose?
Linux, freebsd and solaris. More if you send patches.
That wasn't his point. The problem is, that you can not port HAL on every architecture and you can not simply sent in patches. As if things were that simple. Not every architecture shares the same metaphor or philosophy in doing things. And a lot of systems simply have their own HAL, there is no need to duplicate efforts.
Not sure what your point was. Are you saying Linux doesn't need a HAL because other systems have a HAL? That makes no sense.
As I understand it, Solid is a layer between HAL and KDE, so it could work with other HALs, I'm sure. iirc Phonon works on OS X now, so it wouldn't surprise me to see KDE apps on OS X dealing with plug-and-play events.
I wholeheartedly support taking KDE back to simple days of Sinclair ZX. I already cannot run KDE on my TexasInstruments 83 calculator... Now, it seems I will need to upgrade the video card in my e Nintendo Famicom just to be able to see shadows in KWin. Progress sux!
Note Kwin-with-composite can use OpenGL acceleration, but it'll run almost equally well with just XRENDER (eg simple 2d acceleration). Unlike compiz and beryl, I must note.
How dose that work? dose it automatically detect if you can support OpenGL acceleration or dose the user turn of the 3d effects?
Last I checked, it was just a matter of having a good sequence of fallback mechanisms... so if openGL was there, it did things in openGL -- if it isn't there, it tries using XRender for those effects that can be supported that way, and disables those that absolutely require openGL... and if XRender isn't available, it drops down into plain old kwin that everyone already knows and loves... :)
So, because HAL wasn't invented by KDE, KDE shouldn't use it as a back end? You're kidding right? KDE should just use the best technology for the job, whether that means making it "inhouse" or using existing technologies from elsewhere. Furthermore, KDE seems to have taken an approach of adding an additional layer of indirection to on the one hand provide KDE applications with a consistent and easy to use API, and on the other hand not become too dependent on any single outside system at any time. I think that is a good approach, even if the "just writing a new back end" may end up being harder than it sounds or never takes place.
HAL is one possible backend, and the only one currently available. There is nothing preventing one from writing a Windows (or other) backend for Solid. Its also possible to port HAL to other OSes. Solid should greatly ease cross platform compatibility, not hinder it.


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HILSUM: There is a strong Islamist current in Libya, which might seek to restrict further what women can do. But so many women took part in the revolution, whether by sending money to the rebels, by sending weapons, by spying.
But we've seen it in other revolutions, haven't we, where the women participate, everybody praises the women and say how fantastic they are, and then after the revolution is over then the men say, OK. Now you go back to the home. You've played your part. It's up to the Libyan women to resist that. The Libyan women I know say they're determined to carry on.
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