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FSFE Newsletter - September 2013
F-Droid: Privacy aware software repository for Android
F-Droid is a project that provides Free Software applications for Android via a repository system, much like most package systems of the GNU/Linux distributions. This differs from other mobile app markets, like Google Play or Apple's AppStore, since the client and server side software respect your freedoms and do not force you to register an account to use them. F-Droid's settings will value your privacy: although you can choose to enable it, by default it does not show programs which 1) show advertisement, 2) track and report your activity, promote 3) non-free add-ons or 4) non-free network services, or 5) depend on other non-free apps. That is why since the beginning of FSFE's "Free Your Android" campaign we point people to F-Droid.
For the last two months Daniel Martí, one of the F-Droid developers, was an intern in FSFE's Berlin office. Beside participating in FSFE's day to day business, improving our newsletter publishing process and some other nice tools for FSFE's work, he gave two F-Droid workshops in Berlin. In the workshops he toughed others how to include new programs into the F-Droid repository, and documented what he learnt from the first two workshops. As you can see in FSFE's event section, Daniel already announced general Free Your Android workshops in Spain, and will also continue giving F-Droid workshops.
To promote F-Droid Torsten Grote and others from our android list finalised a new F-Droid leaflet. So if you want to promote a Free Software repository for Android, you can print the new leaflets yourself, order them from FSFE, or make a donation so FSFE can continue to distribute our leaflets widely.
New Zealand bans software patents
As one of the organisations working to get rid of software patents for over a decade now, and the recent success in Germany, FSFE welcomes New Zealand's decision to ban software patents. It also contains the potentially troublesome "as such" wording, which some courts in the EU interpreted to permit software patents. But in New Zealand they made clear how to interpret this: you can only patent it if the inventive step is not merely in the software. Besides, the law seems to get around the TRIPS requirement that all inventions in all fields of technology have to be patentable by stating that computer programs are not inventions, and therefore not patentable.
Something completely different
- Due to the revealed surveillance Groklaw founder PJ announced that she does not see another way than to shut down the news site. Groklaw helped to defend Free Software against FUD in the SCO case, during the OOXML fight, and followed the Microsoft antitrust case that FSFE won together with Samba. As Fellow Paul Adams put it "The world of IT is just that little bit less safe without Groklaw". In future it will be harder to counter big IT companies spin-doctoring.
- As every month Guido Arnold gathered all education related news. He also wrote about a school in the southeast of England, which began switching its student-facing computers to GNU/Linux. Stuart Jarvis interviewed the school's Network Manager which is a good case study to refer to.
- FSFE was also active in giving talks: Karsten Gerloff's keynote at the Euskalencounter festival in Bilbao received huge press attention in the Spanish speaking media, for example in Tercera en Linea (Spanish). In his talk "All watched over by machines of loving grace" he talked about the question of who controls our machines.
- In a lightning talk at KDE's Akademy Matija explained FSFE's fiduciary programme. The Video recording is now available.
- German Deputy coordinator Torsten Grote again spent a lot of his volunteer time to give interviews for the German radio stations, including a one hour discussion round about "securing your digital home - privacy in the internet". You find all the interviews on FSFE's audio page.
- Joinup reports that the Valencia region government (Spain) completed a switch to LibreOffice on all of the 120,000 desktop PCs of the administration, including schools and courts. They also published a summary about France's detailed use and plans for free software.
- DRM: Loosing all your e-books by going to Singapur? Jim O'Donnell describes how that happened to him. To prevent that you can buy DRM-free books.
- Besides, David Wheeler suggests to adopt the Free Software principles to IT security. For the name he suggests Open security,
- and the Ada initiative published a history of anti-harassment policies in the Free Software community. As it is not mentioned in the article: For this year's libreplanet conference our sister organisation also had anti harassment policy.
- From the planet aggregation:
- Paul Boddie commented the article Licensing in a Post Copyright World to clarify some points, bringing some of the missing facts to the table.
- On privacy: Henri Bergius wrote about GeoClue2, which offers better privacy controls than its predecessor. The previous version of the library would provide the current location to any application; with GeoClue2, GNOME will require the user to confirm location requests from each application.
- Karl Beecher wrote about Free Software alternatives for the post-PRISM era, suggesting GNU/Linux as operating system, Kolab for e-mail, owncloud for storage. But he is looking for VoIP solutions.
- Valentin Rusu wrote a GnuPG backend for the KDE's password manager KDE Wallet, and
- in "Bruce Schneier and the Lords of the Cloud", Karl Beecher summarises a talk by the crypto expert.
- Lucile was at the OHM festival. In her summary of the event she came to the conclusion that advice to activists, whose safety depends on digital security, is very complicated.
- Guido Arnold found a nice quote which says that Free Software shares the values that underlie journalism and democracy, and
- reports that the Fellowship group in Rhein-Main area tries another tactic to spread out (German).
- Kevin wrote about the connection between his new bass strings and Free Software. Read about this connection and why this bass company moved away from Microsoft.
- If you want to help raise Martin Gollowitzer's motivation, support his health, and support Free Software all at once, please donate to FSFE using "Tracking for Freedom" as the payment reference.
- On technical topics: Sam Tuke explains how to achieve reverse reverb (echo) effect with GNU/Linux audio plugins,
- Isabel Drost recommends not to switch from RDBMS to Apache Hadoop, and
- "IRL" is dreaming of a secure browser.
Get active: Tell us which company benefits from Free Software!
As a non-profit organisation depending on donations, FSFE constantly has to ask people to actually donate. Although more and more of FSFE's budget comes from its supporting members -- the Fellows -- FSFE also receives donations from several companies. Most of them extensively use or write Free Software, use Free Software as a basis for their business models, or want to enable social change.
Do you know a company which benefits a lot from Free Software and which is not yet donating to us? If so please send us an e-mail with the company's name, if possible a contact name, e-mail, phone number, and a short note how they benefit from Free Software or FSFE's work. This way we are able to contact them and secure our funding.
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received this comment about a draft letter I prepared:Well, as long as people are being judg(e)mental about others' language here, I'll say that it's Rude English (RdE) to claim that someone else's dialect is 'bad English'. Let's see what Fowler's Modern English Usage (3rd edition) has to say about write:
"Can you please put in I AM WRITING TO YOU NOT I AM WRITING YOU..this is amercian and bad english."
Comment is from an England-born Australian.
I am willing to admit that this may be American English (and the letter is on behalf of an organization that is supposed to use "international" (i.e., British) English. But it's certainly not "bad English", is it? (And I do find it easier accepting criticism on my English that is spelled and capitalized properly... but that's another issue.)
If there is a difference between UK and US English on this, does it apply to other verbs, such as "send"?
The transitive AmE use = 'to communicate with (a person) in writing' is shown in the following examples from short stories in the New Yorker. I had written my mother about all this (1987); Liza, my dear, I have never written you yet to thank you for going out to our house (1993). This construction was formerly standard in BrE ('frequent from c 1790' says the OED), but it is now in restricted use unless accompanied by a second (direct) object, as in I shall write you a letter as soon as I land in Borneo. In old-fashioned commercial correspondence the types We wrote you yesterday; Please write us at your convenience were often used, but nowadays to would normally be inserted before you and us.Meanwhile, John Algeo's British or American English? says:
Ditransitive [i.e. with two objects--Lynneguist] use of write (I wrote them a letter) is common-core English. But some ditransitive verbs can also be used with either object alone: I told them a story. I told a story. I told them. In American English, write belongs to that category: I wrote a letter. I wrote them. In British English, however, if write has a single object, it is normally the ditransitive direct object, and when the ditransitive indirect object occurs instead, it is the object of a preposition: I wrote to them. Also in British, if the direct object function is filled by direct or indirect discourse, the same prohibition against the ditransitive indirect object exists: I wrote to them, "I'll come on Sunday," not ?I wrote them, "I'll come on Sunday." I wrote to them that I would come on Sunday, not ?I wrote them that I would come on Sunday.So, to sum up:
- I'm writing you a letter is standard AmE and standard BrE.
- I'm writing you to ask a question is fine in AmE and used to be fine in BrE.
send: I sent a package to him. I sent him a package. I sent a package. *I sent him.So, send is in the wrong class of verbs for comparison. Write in AmE is more like tell and the following verbs, in that it can both take two objects without any prepositions and it can have just the recipient of the communication as a single object (which may or may not occur with other non-object kinds of things, as indicated in the parentheses/brackets below).
tell: I told Di a secret. I told Di (about the fire).All of those ditransitive and transitive versions are fine in BrE--so it is only write, as far as I know, that creates a problem. Having a look in Beth Levin's wonderful* English verb classes and their alternations (1993), I'm a little disappointed to find that she's not treated this class of verbs ('Verbs of transfer of a message') fully--but she does admit to this. Since the class also includes things like preach and quote and those don't fall into the same patterns as ask and teach and tell, there's yet some work to be done here.**
ask: I asked Di a question. I asked Di (about the fire).
teach: I taught the students an equation. I taught the students (about fire safety).
So, this is all to say that there are some patterns to be found in verbs of this type, but that not every verb follows them, so it's not surprising that this is an area where dialectal differences might crop up. But don't blame the Americans. We're not the ones who (orig. AmE) ditched a perfectly good transitive verb!
* No, I'm not being sarcastic. Linguists adoooore books like this.
** Hey, final-year students--why not you?!


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Tom Cole's appreciation of Elliott Carter's life, which includes interviews with Carter and musicians Charles Rosen and Ursula Oppens, airs Tuesday on All Things Considered. To hear the segment, click the audio link.
The dean of American modernist composers, Elliott Carter, died in New York City Monday. He was just about a month shy of his 104th birthday.
Carter's music, while often thorny and complex, was championed by many of the world's great orchestras and conductors. He also wrote in a wide variety of genres including songs, opera and chamber music, which earned him Pulitzer Prizes for his string quartets in 1960 and 1973.
Carter's Cello Sonata, from 1948, was a bold breakthrough, written for cellist Bernard Greenhouse, who later co-founded the Beaux Arts Trio.
"The Cello Sonata was extremely modern at that time," Carter told NPR's Tom Cole in a 2008 interview, the year he celebrated his 100th birthday. "I could not get it published. And Bernard Greenhouse and his pianist played the first performance at Town Hall, and they were covered with sweat. It was so upsetting and so disturbing — we had hardly anybody in the audience. If they heard what I write now, they would run out of the hall screaming, I suppose."
The composer's longevity was remarkable, but what amazes more is Carter's continued productivity. Carter was still composing music nearly up until his death. By one account, he published more than a dozen works since turning 100, and 40 more works while in his nineties.
In fact, his Dialogues II was just premiered in Milan not even two weeks ago on Oct. 25, with Daniel Barenboim as pianist and Gustavo Dudamel conducting the Orchestra of La Scala; another performance with Barenboim is scheduled for Nov. 15, this time with the Berlin Staatskapelle and Zubin Mehta conducting.
In marking Carter's centennial, Cole observed the incredible span of history the New York City composer witnessed. In the year he was born, Henry Ford introduced the Model T. Carter remembered seeing English warships in the Hudson River when he moved to Riverside Drive as a child, near the end of World War I.
Born into a prosperous family of lace importers, Carter spent parts of his childhood in Europe, speaking French before he mastered English. His parents weren't musical, but they provided him piano lessons in his youth. He began cultivating an interest in modern music after enrolling in New York's Horace Mann School in 1922. Two years later, Carter was introduced to the maverick American composer Charles Ives, who took him to concerts and wrote a letter in support of Carter's admission to Harvard.
In the early 1930s, Carter, like many American composers, made the pilgrimage to Paris to study with legendary pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. Never pleased with the music he wrote during his three-year period with her, he instead insisted that his immersion into performing early vocal music and studying Bach were his chief influences.
After his return to the U.S., Carter stationed himself in New York City but traveled to accept teaching positions at St. John's College in Annapolis, Md., the Peabody Conservatory, and later Yale, MIT and Juilliard. Carter and his contemporary Milton Babbitt became the high priests of midcentury atonal academia, when traditional harmonies and melodies were shunned in conservatories nationwide.
Carter found inspiration in surprising places. In one of his last filmed interviews, he tells cellist Alisa Weilerstein how he came up with the percussive sounds that interrupt the more meditative passages in his Cello Concerto (a recording of which Weilerstein has just released). It all started, he explained, with a visit to the Kyoto Moss Gardens. Weilerstein's recording of this concerto has just been released.
"The moss gardens had many streams of water to keep the moss alive," he explained. "And it had little bamboo tubes ... and when they were filled they would turn over and there would be a loud snap. And I put that into the concerto." Carter's sudden rhythmic swerves and the often surprising sounds he demanded from musicians delighted his fans and further alienated his detractors.
Early in his career Carter declared, "I am a radical, having a nature that leads me to perpetual revolt." And if, especially in his later years, his avuncular personality seemed far removed from that avant-garde battle cry, Carter's music, always keenly constructed, never lost its bite.
In comments he made when Carter was awarded a gold medal by the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1971, Aaron Copland said of Carter: "He writes a music that is unlike that of any other composer on the contemporary scene. It reflects a rare combination of heart and brain: the man of feeling and the man of intellect. ... Other composers may create a polyphony of musical lines, but Carter creates a polyphony of musical thoughts."
Carter's assistant said he died peacefully of natural causes in his New York City apartment.
Copyright 2022 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.


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Pretty simple. I would say that when I started wearing more crazily printed clothes I would pair them with something dark in contrast, as it always worked out and it's hard to match different prints. Lately I've been clashing more and more quite happily, but what I did here was really just to keep it basic. Black, white, gray. Yep.old navy top. grandma's old blazer. thrifted dress worn as skirt.
This is definitely more clashing. All the prints that remind me of circuses-candy colored stripes and carnival pastels.old navy top. mom's old skirt. forever21 headband.
I have been wanting to try out the blazer I got Belle for forevz and the rich purple was just SCREAMING for the harlequin. Chillax Blazer, no need to fret, I had my eye on you anyways. Though I love the intense shoulder pads (we all know how much I love intense shoulder pads...) the blazer is definitely not a good size for me and Belle will like it tons because I said so.I really need to clean out my closet. The other night I walked in and found my dog resting on top of my heaps of fabric, if that tells you anything. Some stuff will be sent to fellow blog people while I'm contemplating putting others on eBay.
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With summer almost here there has been a near constant supply of berries in the stores and this week blueberries were on sale so I picked up a bunch of them. After polishing off a significant amount of them just by snacking on them plain I decided that it was time to do something with them and I knew exactly what that was, a breakfast quinoa parfait. I am a big fan of quinoa and I am always looking for new and interesting ways to use it and the idea for the breakfast quinoa parfait has been on the back of my mind all winter just waiting for the fresh summer berries to show up. The basic idea for the quinoa parfait was to layer quinoa with yogurt and berries and after that you could add pretty much anything else that you like. Since I was using blueberries this time I decided to pair them with some toasted pecans and to use vanilla yogurt though I was also contemplating on going with plain yogurt and then topping the whole thing off with maple syrup.
The soft and tender quinoa worked surprisingly well in the breakfast parfait with the creamy yogurt and the juicy blueberries! One of the good things about making this for breakfast is that you can cook a big batch of the quinoa on the first day and then just pull it out of the fridge and whip up the parfait in a few minutes for the next few days. I am definitely looking forward to making more of these this summer!
Blueberry Quinoa Parfait
Quinoa used in a breakfast parfait layered with vanilla yogurt, fresh blueberries and toasted pecans.
- 1 cup quinoa, well rinsed
- 2 cups water
- 2 cups vanilla yogurt
- 2 cups blueberries
- 1/4 cup pecans, toasted and coarsly chopped
- Bring the quinoa and water to a boil in a medium sized sauce pan, reduce the heat and simmer covered until the water has been absorbed and the quinoa is tender, about 15-20 minutes.
- Chill the quinoa in the fridge.
- Assemble the parfait by layering the quinoa, yogut, blueberries and pecans.


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Developers from Nokia and Mozilla have been working hard to port the Mozilla Platform and Firefox to Qt and there are now some solid results available. An experimental build of Firefox Qt is available, and you can download the sources from Mozilla's mercurial repository. The plan is to merge the Qt branch into the central Mozilla branch to make the port official. KDE Dot News spoke to developer Oleg Romaxa from Nokia who came to Akademy 2008 from Finland.
Why did you do this port?
Because we were going to make Maemo use Qt in the future and we were making a browser based on Mozilla for the N810, so now we are making this new browser version based on Qt. Before, there was no Qt port available for Mozilla. It only took us 5 days to port it. We asked for help from Mozilla and they sent a team to Finland for a week.
What's the current state of the port?
The Qt port is mostly ready now for our browser. For full Firefox support, we need to implement XUL widgets, theming, and make some implementation for Flash player (NPAPI) support: it works but doesn't currently draw anything.
Will this be supported in future?
Yes, we will support it. We will cooperate with Trolltech to ensure it continues to be supported.
What is Mozilla's interest in this?
Mozilla are interested in mobile devices. Nokia make mobile devices, and will be using Qt. If you look at the mobile Firefox requirements, Qt support is in that.
Why are Nokia now developing two browsers? This one and QtWebKit?
Nokia will use the best browser for the job. Currently, we cannot make a full-featured and integrated browser with WebKit in mobile. But with Mozilla, we do not need to do anything, we can take existing models and API's which are available. Also, NPAPI support is already in the Gecko web rendering engine. They are also concerned that WebKit is to some extent controlled by Apple, who are in competition to Nokia with their iPhone.
What are you hoping to get out of Akademy?
I'm hoping to find people and ask them what they think about the Qt port and having Mozilla integrated into KDE. So far people are just talking about WebKit.
Will distributions package it?
That would be interesting to know. Maybe Kubuntu would like to have it...
Also, i've heard of Russian companies making KDE-based distributions and they might be interested in having Firefox without having GTK installed.
Do you think Mozilla will get rid of GTK?
No, Mozilla will support officially only the ports they have a particular interest in. If it helps to expand their market they will be more interested.
Where can people find more information?
There is a branch available on Mozilla's Mercurial repository. http://hg.mozilla.org/users/romaxa_gmail.com/index.cgi/mozilla-qt/ is the latest branch, it should soon be merged when I fix a final outstanding bug.
What needed doing for the port?
We ported Cairo to gain a QPainter backend. It's not full-featured, but it's enough for a web browser. Qt's implementation of the Cairo backend is much simpler than with GTK, because Qt is better able to integrate graphics and widgets.
Can the Cairo backend be used for other Cairo applications, like swfdec?
I'm sure it's already possible to do most of what's needed, images and compositing are there. It's not fully implemented but it's mostly complete. We are talking to Cairo developers to push the Qt backend into the Cairo source tree.
It is interesting to read that this time around, there is cooperation from Mozilla for a porting effort. If I remember correctly, this is where previous efforts have failed in the past. I hope this will develop into a viable alternative rendering engine. It would be good to be back in the old days where you could switch your rendering engine in Konqueror between the Mozilla engine and KHTML. Maybe this time around, we will have three options?
Yes, I really hope this gets developed and refined to the point where we have a Mozilla Firefox KPart. It would be just lovely to be able to switch back and forth between the KHTML KPart and the Firefox KPart for displaying pages in Konqueror.
Even lovelier if the Firefox KPart would interact properly with its container to switch to a different KPart depending on the content type of a clicked link. I love having text files come up in Konqueror using the Embedded Advanced Text Editor KPart. And having URLs passed to the appropriate KIO-aware applications like KPDF based on content type. KDE really got it right with KIO and KParts, and that is the main reason why I use Konqueror as my primary browser. Every other browser, Firefox included, seems awfully primitive with its treatment of content types and helper applications.
all news around is about Webkit...but i really want to know whats happenning on khtml side.how is the SVG stuff going? was that bytecode interpreter got merged into trunk/? what happened to WYSIWYG editors support, etc...
Yes, what is going on the KHTML?
KHTML is going to have a hard time trying to keep up if they want to continue a completely separate development. A more practical and viable approach would be trying to port whatever improvements are unique in KHTML to the current QtWebKit. I imagine several obstacles will need to be overcome if this is to happen, not the smallest of them being the NIH syndrome. OTOH consider the fact that the more WebKit code does not belong to Apple or TT/Nokia the freer the resulting library will be.
Another option: port whatever improvements are unique in WebKit to KHTML. The resulting library will be even freer.
1) how is the SVG stuff going?
Very well.
2) was that bytecode interpreter got merged into trunk/?
The initial version is in KDE 4.1, and is a nice improvement
over KJS4.0.x
3) what happened to WYSIWYG editors support
The basic version is in KDE 4.1 --- the fundamentals work,
but the command set support is somewhat limited.
Are you not surprised that you get this kind of questions?
Normally every project tries to tell the users at least a little bit what the current state is, but KHTML does nothing like it - not at all.
Heck, there are enough bloggers out there who would love to bring news about KHTML to the masses, but no, the KHTML project doesn't publish any information, it could... well, do something. I honestly don't understand the reason behind that. It's just sad :(
Is the developer's blog for the current SVG SoC project.
Frostbyte was actually announced in SadEagle's blog.
Where else would you like? I'm curious.
That are amazing news! Will it be possible to use existing Firefox addons with the Qt version? That would be a real killer feature for a Qt based Firefox Browser in KDE.
No reason why not - extensions are just interpreted, XUL-ly code :)
Yes, extensions work flawlessly.
Plugins like Flash on the other hand crach Firefox-Qt in it's current state, but that's pre-alpha software for ya. ;-)
By pre-alpha software, do you mean Flash? :-)
Nope, Firefox.
Flash 10 is actually release candidate now.
Flash 9, well, eww.
This is great! I think that Firefox is the only GTK+ application on my system, so this will be VERY welcomed :D
You should install Gimp and Inkscape. They are still much better then Krita and Karbon14.
The interface of Gimp drives me up the wall. I can't draw so I don't use Inkscape, but I find Krita and Digikam take care of all my image manipulation/editing needs just fine.
Gimp and Krita really aren't any more comparable than Kate and KWord. Sure, Kate and KWord are both text editors, but beyond that the target audiances are pretty much unrelated.
Gimp, like Photoshop, is much more so meant to be photo-manipulation software first and foremost (hence the name for both), although it is frequently abused to create images. Krita, like Corel Painter, is intended much more so far artists wanting to paint pictures (not to manipulate photos).
Of course, you're also assuming that he actually wants to use *any* of those programs.
Great to hear. Firefox has always seemed out of place, and this was possibly top of my wishlist for... all software really.
Nice to see it's coming along well, hope it's all finished soon - default in Intrepid maybe?
Perfect way to polish up KDE 4.1.
What I would really like to see is something as the awesome bar integrated with nepomuk. Either an awesome bar in konqueror with nepomuk integration or integrating the awesome bar of firefox with KDE and make it use nepomuk would be great.
Imagine, for example, opening krunner and start typing the tag of one of your bookmarked sites, then krunner does its magic, you click enter and you have your web browser opening the page that you want.
That would be.. umm.. awesome :-) What bothers me about most web browsers is that they do not use the system stores for bookmarks, certificates, history, et cetera, so you end up with lots of silos of data. Hopefully nepomuk integration can go some way to remedying it.
This is WONDERFUL! Imagine Firefox integrating perfectly with the KDE4 Oxygen style! Most importantly: ARE THEY GOING TO FIX THE FILE > SAVE DIALOG??? The darn GTK file open/save dialog has bugged me for ages. I've always been mad that Firefox doesn't detect the DE and show the KDE file dialog on KDE desktops. (I guess I could say the same for the GIMP, but the GTK+ *is* "The GIMP Toolkit" so I figure they have a right to promote it. ;-)
I could imagine some other useful things coming from a more KDE-centric Firefox, such as using kuiserver for downloads (http://pindablog.wordpress.com/2008/07/24/more-on-kuiserver-and-extenders/), and using Nepomuk to store bookmarks. That would be so nice. Thank you Nokia, for starting this!
Actually it still doesn't use the KDE file dialog. It uses the Qt one.
...but at least it isn't the Gnome one. :P
...and starting with KDE 4.1, Qt apps will use the KDE dialog (unless they use some special functions).
Currently, Firefox-Qt displays the Qt file dialog, as does several other Qt apps I tried. In fact, it only seemed to use the KDE file dialog with Qt Designer.
I'd love that!
That only works if the app links kdelibs and is a KApplication, as it's KDE overriding QFileDialog's static functions, not Qt loading KDE's KFileDialog by itself.
i hate the gtk and qt file dialogs too. For a long time I used this to get kde file dialogs from gtk apps such as firefox:
My open/save dialogues look ok, but are missing the "Places" section down the side - so say I'm trying to attach a file from a USB stick, I have to copy it into my home directory first, very irritating. I would love to see full native Dolphin-style dialogues.
There's a neat trick available in Firefox:
Enter about:config in the location bar, then search for 'ui.allow_platform_file_picker' and set it to false.
Restart Firefox and voila. It's not the KDE dialog, but it's better than the GTK crap.
Works and makes ff much more usuable.
Wow, thanks. It's basic, but at least has some usefullness rather than the default.
Yeah, the "built-in" file picker (which results from setting that pref to "false") was written by a mozilla bigshot (asa) who agrees with us that GtkFileChooser looks like ass, and lacks important capabilities (e.g., precise modified TIMES instead of just dates, and a column). But you can get exactly what you want (the KDE 3.5.x filepicker, WITH BOOKMARKS AND ALL CONTROLS) if you're still back on 3.5.x:
Just Use the kgtk2-wrapper to intercept and "fix" the file chooser calls. Anywhere Firefox would normally use GtkFileChooser, you get the KDE panel! With a usable filesize column, all of your bookmarks (and the ability to create more of them), the works! Just run it like this:
/usr/bin/kgtk2-wrapper firefox
Most distros have prebuilt kgtk2-wrapper for you, in some "kde addons" type of package. Just install it. If you liked You're gonna LOVE IT!
And of course, if you use Thunderbird too, just do this:
/usr/bin/kgtk2-wrapper thunderbird
I haven't tried wrapping GIMP, but I suspect that it would work too.
KDE does have a Gimp-like drawing program: Krita.
It has a cleaner layout. What has always bothered me about Gimp is the lack of a "Line" tool. *shrugs*
Keep up your hard work, mozilla team.
*click* shift *second clock* voila
KDE does have a Gimp-like drawing program: Krita
Actually, neither The GIMP or Krita is a drawing program. They are paint programs. A drawing program normally supports some sort of vector file format. So, Karbon14 is a drawing program. It would be nice if the same program could do both painting and drawing AND support both vector and raster output files.
Of course Krita can do that. We're talking about a part of KOffice here. It can even do music notation, wordprocessing or work with an (interactive!) worldmap... There is nothing Karbon14 can do and Krita can't, just like there is nothing Krita can do and KWord can't. It's just the interfaces are optimized for their respective tasks. Below, it's one system.
All aboard the pedantic train!
No seriously, you can't just say "drawing means this, painting means that"... you don't own the English language, so stop telling me what to say.
I'm sorry about this post, but pedantic stuff like this really gets me going.
If you try to use Krita you will see that there is a lot of space for improvements. Until Krita is ready I'll use Gimp, because it's the best free Image-Manipulating-Program.
I'll let you in on a little secret: software is never ready. There's always a lot of space for improvements.
You are right, but at some point the software is "ready" to use. And Krita isn't at that point, jet.
Photoshop must be the one exception.
I've never really heard someone say that Photoshop is missing crucial features they need. In fact, Photoshop is too powerful to the extent that Adobe has been talking about seriously trimming down Photoshop and making future versions simpler for the average user, while continuing to support CS3 for professionals.
Given the fact that Nokia in the last period has done a lot of "shopping" I will not be surprised to read of such an acquisition.
We will see. Maybe it depends from the result of this porting.
Uhh, no. The Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, isn't for sale, and a completely different different mission and goals than Nokia.
The Mozilla Foundation is non-profit, but the Mozilla Corporation *is* for-profit (they created it for that entire reason). The Mozilla Corporation was created in 2005 as a subsidiary of the Foundation, IIRC.
Though I gotta agree that it doesn't seem very likely, theres a sight overlap but not close to as much as Nokia and TT.
Yes sure, an eventual Mozilla acquisition is another matter than the TT ones.
But still there are some good reasons to do it:
Nokia's new strategy is heavily based on internet services (http://www.ovi.com) and the convergence between the desktop and the mobile devices.
The browser is a fundamental piece of software to access those services.
On Mozilla labs are developing technologies to better integrate web services on the browser (http://labs.mozilla.com/projects/weave/) and hence on the device that runs it.
Otherwise if Nokia isn't interested in Firefox why it's working hard to port FF to Qt? While at the same time if it is interested in FF while not acquire Mozilla given the fact that has acquired everything else (Symbian, TT, a number of social site)?
I'm not an expert on acquisitions, but Nokia has recently bought the whole Symbian (something) and made the Symbian Foundation (fully owned by Nokia). So I'm really curious to know if there is some legal reason why can't Nokia do the same with Mozilla corp and/or foundation in a way or in another to suite their desire to control everything related to its business.
Nokia is clearly interested in Mozilla otherwise they wouldn't have created the Qt port. I don't think we'll ever see Nokia buy Mozilla - they don't need to buy them to influence Mozilla as can be seen from this Qt port. If they need something to be supported, they simply need to code it.
Why did you do this port?
Because we were going to make Maemo use Qt in the future and we were making a browser based on Mozilla for the N810, so now we are making this new browser version based on Qt.
Sounds like they are going to base Maemo on Qt in the future. If that is true, I would consider getting one.


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After having recently made the chicken marsala , it reminded me of another Italian chicken and pan sauce dish, chicken piccata and I could not resist updating the photos for the recipe. Piccata is an Italian method of preparing meat where the meat is cut thinly, breaded and then fried in oil or butter before a pan sauce is made with the drippings, white wine, lemon juice, capers and butter. Next to the amazing flavour of the pan sauce, my favourite thing about this dish is how quick and easy it is to make; all you need to do is cook the meat, add the ingredients for the pan sauce and reduce it. Not only is this dish easy enough to make on a weeknight but it will also not fail to impress any dinner guest!
Note: Normally the chicken is coated in flour before frying but I prefer to omit this step.
Chicken picatta is lemon butter chicken at it's best!
Cook some rice or pasta while making the sauce and have a tasty meal in less than 20 minutes.
Chicken Piccata
A super quick and easy chicken dish in a tasty lemon, butter and caper sauce that is sure to impress your dinner guests.
- 2 (6 ounce) chicken breasts, butterflied and pounded thin
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon butter
- 1 clove garlic, chopped
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- 1/2 cup chicken broth
- 1 lemon, juice
- 1 teaspoon honey
- 2 tablespoons capers
- 1 tablespoon butter
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 tablespoon parsley, chopped
- Heat the oil and butter in a pan over medium heat.
- Season the chicken with salt and pepper and fry until golden brown, about 2-3 minutes per side and set aside.
- Add the garlic to the pan and saute until fragrant, about a minute.
- Add the wine to the pan and deglaze it.
- Add the broth, lemon juice, honey and capers in the pan and simmer until the liquids have reduce by half, about 2-3 minutes.
- Stir in the butter, season with salt and pepper, mix in the parsley, return chicken to pan and toss to coat.
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SQL is the language PostgreSQL and most other relational databases use as query language. It's portable and easy to learn. But every SQL statement must be executed individually by the database server.
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Kids birthdays are a great reason to have a party. Kids love parties, games, presents, cake, and most adults are pretty fond of them, too. Your perfect party starts with a great theme and that theme can start with the perfect kids birthday invitation.
If your little girl is having a birthday and need kids birthday invitations with girly themes we have plenty to choose from. Whether you think your birthday girl will be interested in pink birthday invitations, cup cake birthday invitations, animal birthday invitations, sports invitations, classic princess invitations, mermaid invitations or something with a fun design element, we have a great kids birthday invitations to make your little girls birthday party special.
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Many times your birthday kid may choose a theme that is not necessarily for boys or for girls. We have many, many fun kids birthday invitation styles and themes that are not gender specific. How about a birthday cake invitation? Or opt for a fun roller coaster birthday invitation to go with your amusement park party.
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This privacy statement describes how Vancouver Massage Center collects and uses the personal information you provide on our Web site: VancouverMassageCenter.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information. It also includes information about all of our apps which currently are, or will be published to the iTunes App Store and Apple Newsstand.
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By John W. Loftus.
Since others are getting into the act here, here, and here, let me throw my hat in the ring as well. Let me tell you how to be an apologist for the Christian Faith, as well as how to be one for skepticism. Like theirs, this too is sarcasm.
Since others are getting into the act here, here, and here, let me throw my hat in the ring as well. Let me tell you how to be an apologist for the Christian Faith, as well as how to be one for skepticism. Like theirs, this too is sarcasm.
How to be a Christian Apologist:
1) Hide your head in the sand. Believe that people in the ancient world weighed the evidence for their beliefs with the same rigorous standards that we do today. But the Bible itself tells us otherwise.
2) Demonize the skeptic. Believe he or she is willfully ignorant of the obvious truths that you believe. Believe that the skeptic is just not interested in knowing the truth. Believe that the whole reason he is a skeptic is because he hates God and is in rebellion against him. Believe that he just wants to live an immoral life apart from God.
3) Claim that skeptical objections have been refuted long ago. Claim that Hume's arguments have already been refuted, as William Lane Craig said to me at a conference. If they've been refuted, then why are they still very potent? In fact, Hume's arguments against miracles cannot be refuted, strictly speaking, since he's talking inductively. He argued that a wise person proportions his belief to the evidence. How can that be refuted?
4) Use rhetoric not substance. Do what William Lane Craig did in his debate with Bart Erhman. Claim that Erhman's argument is "mathematically fallacious."
5) Mischaracterize what skeptics are actually claiming. We do not claim to know that there is no God. We just think there isn't enough evidence to believe in one. We do not claim miracles are not possible. We just don't see enough evidence for them. We do not claim to have more knowledge than God purportedly does with regard to how he could've created a better world than this one. We just think that a Being with omniscience would know how to create a better world, especially since we have some knowledge about how a better world could've been created (like getting rid of all raced based conflict and slavery by creating all human beings as one race, and with no law of predation in the natural world).
6) Claim that the skeptic is ignorant of recent scholarship. While some skeptics are ignorant of recent scholarship, it isn't more knowledge that is needed. As Dr. James D. Strauss would repeatedly tell his students in Seminary, "It's not more knowledge we need. What we need is better interpretative schema." Control beliefs, after all, control, and each side has them. The rise of modern science in the Occident, and the knowledge of religious diversity on the planet, and the presence of intense suffering around the globe aired nightly on the news have developed the skeptical control beliefs. Furthermore, Christian scholarship itself leads many Christians away from the faith. Me included.
7) Earn your living off what you claim to believe. So long as you are a preacher or a teacher in a seminary, you have a need to squash your doubts. I know of a few Christian professors and preachers who have openly expressed their doubts to me. But they refuse to entertain them for fear of losing their jobs and their livelihood.
8) Don't ever take the skeptical arguments seriously. Just read them to refute them. You are sure of what you believe, so only read skeptical arguments with a view to refuting them. Never actually think about why that skeptic takes that view. Never try to step inside his mind. Never truly consider his viewpoint. Never think about whether or not his arguments could be true. After all, consider the source. According to #2 above, he doesn't really believe them sincerely either.
9) Deride the skeptical position and the skeptic himself. Talk about Stalin, Lenin and Marx. Talk about Soviet communism, Hitler, or other atrocious dictators as often as you can. Refer to gulags, concentration camps and even the Holocaust itself (although, about these things there is more to the story, especially inside Germany). Talk about Gay radical activists, mass murderers, and gang rapists who do not have "a moral compass." At the same time explain away the Crusades, Slavery in the American South, Inquisitions and witch hunts. No one has a corner on moral truth…no one. But go ahead and continue to claim that Christians do, despite the evidence to the contrary, and despite the evidence that Christians do not get their morals from the Bible alone. Then simply deride the skeptic as a person as often as you can, in whatever way you can. Find some flaws in his character that will prove his arguments are wrong, then bring them up as often as you can. Doing so will refute all of his arguments.
10) State your arguments over and over until you believe them, and state them as if they are obvious to any intelligent educated person. Any falsehood can be believed if it is stated honestly and sincerely enough by many people over and over. Stay securely inside the Christian community from which you gain your beliefs. They will be reinforced every time you get together. However, if the Christian set of beliefs are truly obvious then anyone who encounters them should believe them. But it's simply an illusion to think Christianity is a rationally superior faith.
How to be a Skeptical Apologist: [This too is sarcasm, by the way, although not entirely! Sorry, I just couldn't resist. ;-). ].
1) Think evidentially.
2) Think scientifically.
3) Think philosophically.
4) Think psychologically.
5) Think archeologically.
6) Think anthropologically.
7) Think historiographically.
8) Think about religious diversity.
9) Think about the amount of intense suffering in the world.
10) Think about how often the superstitions of the past have been refuted by science.


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Traveling With Your Dog
Our pets share so much of our lives that many of us don't want to consider traveling without them. Whether you are flying, driving a car, or RVing, sharing a trip with a pet can add richness to the experience. Proper planning can make the travel experience better and less stressful for you and for your pet.
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