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Circa 1910
A pair of double-light sconces in a darkened brass finish. The rectangular-section arms spring from acanthus leaf armbacks which are mounted to a spherical body, surmounted by a flame finial originally used as a gas-fired alternate light source.
Overall: 9" h. x 12" w. x 10" d.
Backplate: 4-1/2" diameter
Can be UL listed for use in dry environments
2 Edison sockets, maximum 100 watts per socket
1 pair total available.
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Corticosteroid drugs (also known as glucocorticoids) act like the naturally occurring adrenal hormone cortisone in the body. They are strong anti-inflammatory and immune-suppressant medications used in many inflammatory and autoimmune conditions, such as rheumatoid arthritis , asthma , inflammatory bowel disease , and systemic lupus erythematosus . Corticosteroids are also prescribed to suppress transplant rejection.
Drugs in this family include:
- Betamethasone (Celestone)
- Cortisone acetate (Cortone Acetate)
- Dexamethasone (Decadron, Dexameth, Dexone, Hexadrol)
- Hydrocortisone (Cortef, Hydrocortone)
- Methylprednisolone (Medrol)
- Prednisolone (Delta-Cortef, Pediapred, Prelone)
- Prednisone (Deltasone, Liquid Pred, Meticorten, Orasone, Panasol-S, Prednicen-M, Sterapred DS)
- Triamcinolone (Aristocort, Atolone, Kenacort)
- And others
One of the most serious side effects of long-term corticosteroid use is accelerated osteoporosis. Although we don't fully understand how this works, corticosteroid interference with calcium and vitamin D is known to play a major role.
Calcium and vitamin D supplements are definitely beneficial for fighting ordinary osteoporosis ; in addition, there is good evidence that they also protect against osteoporosis brought on by corticosteroids. 1 A review of 5 trials enrolling a total of 274 participants found that calcium and vitamin D supplementation significantly prevented bone loss at the lumbar spine and forearm in corticosteroid-treated individuals. 2 For example, in a 2-year double-blind placebo-controlled study of 130 individuals, supplementation with 1,000 mg of calcium and 500 IU of vitamin D daily actually reversed steroid-induced bone loss, causing a net bone gain. 3
Aloe and licorice are two herbs sometimes used topically for skin problems. Preliminary evidence suggests that each one might help topical corticosteroids, such as hydrocortisone, work better. 4,5
There are theoretical reasons (but little direct evidence) to believe that individuals taking corticosteroids, such as prednisone, might be protected from some side effects by taking DHEA at the same time. 9,10
Long-term, high-dose corticosteroid treatment can cause diabetes. This may be at least partly caused by chromium deficiency. A very preliminary study found treatment with corticosteroids caused increased loss of chromium in the urine. 11 Another preliminary study found that individuals with corticosteroid-induced diabetes could improve blood sugar control by taking chromium supplements. 12
Long-term use of corticosteroids, whether orally, or possibly, by inhalation, can slow a child's growth. One animal study suggests that use of the supplement creatine may help prevent this side effect. 15
The supplement ipriflavone is used to treat osteoporosis. A 3-year, double-blind trial of almost 500 women, as well as a small study, found worrisome evidence that ipriflavone can reduce white blood cell count in some people. 13,14 For this reason, anyone taking medications that suppress the immune system should avoid using ipriflavone except under physician supervision.
When taken by mouth, the herb licorice appears to enhance some actions of oral corticosteroids, but interfere with others. 6-8 Because of the unpredictable nature of this interaction, individuals using oral corticosteroids should avoid licorice.
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- Reviewer: EBSCO CAM Review Board
- Review Date: 12/2015 -
- Update Date: 12/15/2015 -

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Adhesive capsulitis is a tightening in the shoulder joint. It decreases the range of motion in the shoulder and causes pain. This condition is also known as frozen shoulder . It is caused by tightening of the soft tissue and formation of scar tissue.
During closed manipulation, the doctor moves the arm at the shoulder joint. This is done to break up adhesions and loosen the stiff joint. The goal of the procedure is to improve range-of-motion by breaking up scar tissue.
Reasons for Procedure
Your doctor may recommend closed manipulation if other methods of relief have failed. This procedure can relieve pain and stiffness for some people. In others, there is still some pain and swelling in the shoulder joint. If the closed manipulation is not successful, you may need arthroscopic surgery .
Possible Complications
Problems from the procedure are rare, but all procedures have some risk. Your doctor will review potential problems, like:
- Pain
- Nerve injury
- Damage to soft tissue
- Instability or stiffness in joint
- Fracture
- Reaction to anesthesia used
Factors that may increase your risk of complications:
What to Expect
Prior to Procedure
Your doctor may do the following:
Leading up to the procedure:
- Arrange for a ride to and from the hospital, and for help at home after the procedure.
- The night before, eat a light meal. Do not eat or drink anything after midnight.
Your doctor may choose either:
- General anesthesia —You will be asleep during the surgery.
- Local anesthesia (less common)—The shoulder area will be numbed.
Description of the Procedure
The doctor will twist and move your shoulder upward and outward. The actions will break up scar tissue to improve range of motion.
Immediately After Procedure
If you had general anesthesia, you will be taken to a recovery room and monitored.
How Long Will It Take?
45-60 minutes
How Much Will It Hurt?
Anesthesia will prevent pain during surgery. Pain and discomfort after the procedure can be managed with medications.
Average Hospital Stay
Once you recover from the anesthesia, you will be able to go home.
Post-procedure Care
During your stay, the hospital staff will take steps to reduce your chance of infection such as:
- Washing their hands
- Wearing gloves or masks
- Keeping your incisions covered
There are also steps you can take to reduce your chances of infection such as:
- Washing your hands often and reminding visitors and healthcare providers to do the same
- Reminding your healthcare providers to wear gloves or masks
- Not allowing others to touch your incisions
You will have pain and swelling for 1-2 weeks after the surgery. Your doctor may instruct you to begin physical therapy.
Call Your Doctor
It is important to monitor your recovery. Alert your doctor to any problems. If any of the following occur, call your doctor:
- Cough, trouble breathing, or chest pain
- Severe nausea or vomiting
- Pain becomes worse or swelling increases
- Tingling or numbness that will not go away, especially in arms and hands
If you think you have an emergency, call for medical help right away.
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- Reviewer: EBSCO Medical Review Board Warren A. Bodine, DO, CAQSM
- Review Date: 11/2018 -
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The Item is aVertical Doors, Inc. GMC Sierra 2014-2016 VERTICAL LAMBO DOORS CONVERSION KITManufacturer: Vertical Doors, Inc.Shipping: FREE SHIPPING LOWER 48 ONLY; Shipping to Hawaii, Alaska, Less traveled areas or any country outside of the US will have additional shipping charges applied. Contact us if you have any questions on shipping charges outside of the lower 48 states. Kits will be shipped 7-10 days after the payment has been received and it will take an additional 1-5 days in transit depending where the kit is being shipped to.
Manufacturer: Vertical Doors, Inc.
Shipping: FREE SHIPPING LOWER 48 ONLY; Shipping to Hawaii, Alaska, Less traveled areas or any country outside of the US will have additional shipping charges applied. Contact us if you have any questions on shipping charges outside of the lower 48 states. Kits will be shipped 7-10 days after the payment has been received and it will take an additional 1-5 days in transit depending where the kit is being shipped to.
This kit will fit GMC SIERRA ALL 2014, 2015, 2016
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1) Disconnect the battery.2) Remove fender3) Make sure to remove door catch if equipped.4) Usually you will need more wire slack: Usually you will need to remove the door panel or kick plate. Do not cut your factory wires unless you have no other choice. Use 2 inch painters tape to mark the factory door location on the vertical and horizontal planes. Also measure the distance between the apron and front edge of the door by the top and bottom hinge.5) Close the door and use 2" painters tape to secure the door to the body of the car.6) Install new Lambo Door kit, make sure you have a flat surface if not you may need to modify your apron.7) Make fine tuning adjustments and make sure all pivot points are greased. Installed the shock. ***DO NOT USE ANY TYPE OF TOOLS ON THE BODY OR SHAFT OF THE SHOCK***Note: Do not install fender until the adjustment of the door is accurate. Also make sure everything is tight, adjustment is set and everything is Locktite.8) Modify factory wire loom: In order to be able to open and raise the door, cut the factory wire boot in half and add wire loom to protect exposed wires. 9) Cut the inner lip of your fender to make room for the new Lambo Door kit. Note: Cut only enough for the swing arm to move freely, after you have cut the fender use a sander or grinder and make sure the surface is completely smooth. Use touch up paint to protect the expose material and to give it a finish look. Close the door and reinstall the Fender.In you have any questions please do not hesitate to give us a call.
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2. DOES THIS KIT BOLT DIRECTLY TO THE FACTORY HINGE HOLES ON MY VEHICLE?(If they say NO, the installation will be difficult and/or expensive)
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Do not take Door off during installation Please follow the detailed instruction manual step by stepUse 2" painters tape to mark the factory location of your door on the horizontal and vertical plane also measure the distance between the apron and the front edge of the door by the botton and top hinge.Make sure the mounting surface is flat as possible, if anything is there, grind the surface so the vertical door kit can sit and mount flat.Make sure both allen screw adjustment on each system are adjusted accordingly.The kit requires no modification, the kit is a bolt on, but most inner fenders must be rolled or trimmed. Make sure to trim a tittle at a time, you only need to trim enough to allow the swing arm to open and move up and downIf you have any questions during the install PLEASE CALL US.
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This step is crucial in your installation process, if this step is not completed when installing your vertical door kit; all warranties are voided and may cause future problems with your vehicle.
Make sure you put grease on the body of the shoulder bold where arrow is pointing.Make sure you use RED Loctite where the arrow is pointing, on the tread of the shoulder bolt.Make sure you put grease on the bottom side of the shock end.It is recommended that every 3 - 6 months all parts of hinge be sprayed with lubricant to ensure smooth hinge operation.
Warning the use of any pliers, paint or foreign materials on shocks body or shaft will Void the Warranty.Use No Pliers
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5B4 Photography and Books Year II
I hope you've all paid your taxes because 5B4 just got slated to receive a huge bailout as a second anniversary gift. Today marks two years of 5B4 and the very first post on April 15, 2007 was a short editorial on the Parr/Badger effect on photobook pricing. Since I recently let loose a few shots across the bow of book dealers I thought it would be interesting to open a discussion and let you know my thoughts about the photobook scene, good and bad. Please contribute your own thoughts in the comments section.
I have nothing against people making a living selling books. Someone has to do it and I have many friends who are sellers or dealers in one capacity or another. Some are high-end dealers and others penny-ante sellers supplementing their incomes. The problem I have is that commerce has become so wrapped up with photography books that it has clouded people's own opinions and aesthetic judgments about what they like about the books themselves. Some don't buy books because they want them for the content but for the book value alone. In some extreme cases, the content isn't even considered, it is just pure greed as the motivator.
The way many photobooks are being marketed is the perfect capitalist wet dream. Small quantities mixed with the hype that if you miss out in the very beginning, that same book will be very expensive in just a matter of months. This increases pressure to act quickly with clouded judgment and the wrong reasoning.
I had a funny moment with a friend who approached me in a store carrying a book that I would never have thought he'd be interested in. I skeptically asked him if he liked the work and he replied, "I feel like if I don't get it now then I'll never have the chance to really know whether I like it or not." That pretty much sums it up right there.
The other concern is inflated pricing of older books. For years photobooks were pretty cheap - even the rare ones. When I moved to NYC in 1987 I remember seeing a shoebox full of multiple copies of Ed Ruscha's books in the Strand bookstore's rare bookroom and they were around 50-60 dollars each - a price I considered absurd then. William Klein's Life is Good & Good for You in New York was commonly seen for 200 dollars. Prices held with only modest increase until the Roth 101 and Parr/Badger books smashed the ceiling ten fold. There is a cause and effect that has had considerable consequences.
Absurdly inflated pricing removes many copies completely out of circulation so that no one sees them. Books are made by artists with the intention of them being seen by somebody. I don't think talent springs up out of nowhere. It comes with the accumulation of knowledge and most great artists have learned from example somewhere along the line. Just like how new writers learn from older writers, artists look at other artists for the same reasons.
The funny thing is that there seem to be only about 200 people world-wide that are buying books at those absurd prices. The rest are dealers who keep circulating the same titles amongst themselves through trades and consignments until they find the right book for the right client within that 200 world-wide pool. Almost like a Ponzi scheme of over-priced goods, if the circulation amongst the dealers were to stop, the bottom would drop out because at some point all would realize that the prices have been artificially inflated for those couple clients for whom money is no object.
The claim that there is large demand for these books and that is what justifies these prices I think is false. I think much of the "value" is based upon the fact that these books are being noticed and acknowledged AFTER it had become almost impossible to see them. If you can't see something and are told how great it is constantly, then you're going to believe it is worth whatever price someone dictates.
Surely some books deserve the large price tags because of extreme rarity but it is across the board now and this is something I feel is detrimental to the printed history of the medium. One person puts a listing on Ebay or on ABE at a high price and every other internet dealer uses that as a guide. My friend recently saw something to this effect in reverse over a book was listed many times at $500 (all of which sat unsold for years) and someone recently listed a copy at $200 in the same condition. Within a matter of a few weeks many of the other sellers dropped their price to $180.00 or lower. There is no authority with the internet. The same as "no one knows you're not a dog" on the internet, they also don't know that you are just greedy.
Speaking of the greedy and opportunistic, I was at a recent booksigning with William Klein at the Howard Greenberg Gallery and in front of me were three known NY book sellers and they were discussing recent finds and "flipping" values about signatures etc. They were discussing this while standing five feet from the artist. Their obvious concern was value and that is entirely disrespectful and disingenuous for them to approach that artist to sign books. They couldn't have cared who was in the seat signing, just about flipping values. They want something for free from the artist that they will turn around and charge a premium for. Well I think if that is your only reason to be there then drop a twenty dollar bill on the table you greedy scumbag. It's like that New Yorker cartoon that had a man approaching a writer at a booksigning and asking him "Could you inscribe this one to Highest Bidder." Of course, those sellers were insisting that Klein just sign the books without inscription at all.
I go to booksignings and have my books inscribed to me. That is the tradition of booksignings - personalization of the book to the owner. Booksignings used to be a chance to meet an artist or writer, chat for a second or two, get a book signed because you appreciate the work. Artists should start charging money for their signatures like baseball players sometimes do at trade shows. New title $5, older rare title $50 per book. Plunk down some cash and share in your profit.
Two of the most embarrassing displays of booksigning insanity have happened at Robert Frank events. At the public library a couple years ago, physical altercations broke out. At a recent Steidl event at Walter Reade theater Robert was visibly uncomfortable when a crowd descended upon him with open books. One dealer who had lent his book as an example during the actual discussion opportunistically approached Robert to sign his book while on stage. That copy appeared for sale online within a couple days along with "ephemera" from the event. Had the guy had identified himself as a bookseller and asked Robert if he'd sign the book so the he could make an extra 500 dollars do you think Robert would have signed the book? Josef Koudelka had an event at Aperture last year and expressed his disappointment afterwards in finding many copies posted the next day on Ebay. He told me he'd never do that again.
If you look at the consequences you may realize that over 90% of the recognized landmark photobooks are now out of the hands of people who may be interested in exploring the content. These books, which are visual artistic statements, in most cases have been turned into words. Now in order to learn about an older book of photographs, you read about it in short 500 word essays without seeing any of the content. What is detrimental is that each of these objects will have a multitude of reactions from different sets of eyes. The sad fact is that we no longer have the ability to see for ourselves what these works mean to each individually. There are now a couple of voices that "explain" the work to you as if we all saw through the same collective peephole.
The history of photography has always been written by a few, but what I ask is, how is it possible to open the dialogue further and make this a much richer discussion. A discussion which includes a multitude of voices and opinions that ebb and flow and lead to a deeper understanding of these objects and ultimately their intended purpose - a better understanding of the world we live in.
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KDE 4.3 Beta 1 Signals Beginning of Bug Hunting Season
The first beta version of the new and shiny KDE 4.3 has been released. The list of new features and improvements is long and impressive as ever. There is a new tree view mode in System Settings, many cool new features, the desktop search becomes more visible to the user, and yet more polishing in user interfaces all over the place make using KDE more fun. Interesting infrastructural bits are the integration of geolocation services into Plasma and Marble, a couple of nice improvements for KAlarm, the notification icon for your calendar. Apropos, the calendar in the clock now shows you holidays. More work down there in the panel brings the option to have the panel cover windows, to accurately align your panel using the new spacer. While KDE 4.3 already looks nice and stable, the KDE team wants to shake out as many bugs as possible before KDE 4.3.0 will be released in late July.
A quick question
Am I correct in noticing that this beta release doesn't ship kdebindings? (Since I have trouble getting PyKDE4 to compile myself...)
By Luca Beltrame at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 10:22am
Thanks for the answer. While
Thanks for the answer.
While we're at it, the link "the new system tray" referred when talking about KGpg refers to a non-existent page kde.org/announcements/TODO.
By Luca Beltrame at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 10:41am
Shadow colour
Cool! I'm looking forward to KDE 4.3. Will I be able to change to a black window shadow colour there? That would be a killer feature.
By Per Wigren at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 11:53am
You can
You can it from shadow settings now. But the active window shadow is tied to window decoration color. You need to go to appearance > Colors > Colors (Tab) > Active Titlebar and set that color wanted.
I am hoping that 4.3 allows easily change active shadow color as well, from same place. It is not nice to be forced to have same active shadow color as the window decoration is. And these two configs should be on the same place.
By Fri13 at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 6:24pm
I discovered that you CAN change the shadow colour: System Settings --> Desktop --> Kwin Effects --> All Effects --> Shadow --> "Force default shadow for decorated windows". Then you can set the shadow using this dialogue, and it applies to both the active and inactive windows.
By madman at Fri, 2009/05/15 - 6:18am
> New Tree Mode in System Settings
Nice, we waited for 3 revision to get actually usable navigation in systemsettings/kcontrol. Now, how long we will have to wait to get all the options inside actually working? (bug #168480, ...)
> A fully themable look taking advantage ...
Great. Now to change a single color in UI shell (plasma) one need to create a whole new theme. Compare that to the easy yet powerful color kcmodule where one can easily change every color of selected style. Sad.
By vedranf at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 3:59pm
>bug #168480 I'm working on
>bug #168480
I'm working on this as we speak, oddly enough.
By SSJ_GZ at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 4:38pm
Thanks for your work! What I
Thanks for your work!
What I don't like is the mentality: "ship it and hope nobody will notice that it's broken". And then claim we have the best DE around.
Instead, if devs want KDE to succeed, they should remove the UI, comment out broken code and publicly announce that this broken and will stay broken until someone steps in and fixes the problem.
By vedranf at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 6:04pm
cut the flamebait
> ship it and hope nobody will notice that it's broken
in the case of the toolbars, chances are simply no one noticed. it's one of those settings that you tend to set once and then forget about from then on, and our current defaults are pretty good for most people which lowers the odds of noticing this even more.
what we lack is a team going around and exhaustively testing features for regressions. if you look at the number of features in system settings, for instance, you'll start to get a feel for the enormity of the task.
in this case it's been reported, someone is working on it, the system works given time.
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 7:43pm
"in the case of the toolbars, chances are simply no one noticed. it's one of those settings that you tend to set once and then forget about from then on, and our current defaults are pretty good for most people which lowers the odds of noticing this even more."
But in this case someone noticed and reported the problem months before even 4.0 was out (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152266). I talked about the problem almost every time there was an article on dot about new KDE release. Also there is a lot duplicates of this bug and is often voted for. This is not a single case, there are really lot of them. And btw. on smaller screens like laptops defaults are too big.
To me it seems like devs are not focused on core bugs, but instead on making nice screenshots to please users like the one here who commented:
"Will I be able to change to a black window shadow colour there? That would be a killer feature."
By vedranf at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 8:40pm
TQM needed
"what we lack is a team going around and exhaustively testing features for regressions. if you look at the number of features in system settings, for instance, you'll start to get a feel for the enormity of the task."
First I note that your are correct that regression testing is needed. To bad that there isn't any way in KBO to tag bug reports as regressions.
Actually we have such a team. They are the users. However, if developers and fanboys keep dissing users for complaining about problems and reporting bugs at KBO, we are going to have less of these valuable workers.
However, this is not the best way to do things. This outdated quality control method has been replaced by TQM in most industries. Perhaps software development is in denial.
By James Tyrer at Fri, 2009/05/15 - 5:29am
> we waited for 3 revision to get actually usable navigation in
i will not quibble with you what you consider to be more usable for you. for the majority of the users we talked to and/or watched use kcontrol live over the course of many years, the tree view simply isn't very friendly.
some people have gotten the idea that KDE is exclusively for them and their group of friends. it isn't.
now, what's cool about the new system settings is that it does have something for both, it's faster (just check out the start up time on it), and it has activate developers.
i think that effort deserves more from you than a flippant, negative remark seeing as you are obviously one of the primary beneficiaries.
to compare/contrast: i don't use the tree view and yet now i'm saddled with it as an option, should i complain about your "obvious lack of taste"? of course not.
> Now to change a single color in UI shell (plasma) one need to
this is no more true than this is: "to change a single color in KDE, you have to do a whole new widget theme".
first, plasma themes may opt to be colourized according to the desktop colour scheme.
second, there's a control panel to mix and match items between themes if you wish to customize them that way. definitely a power user toy, but if you consider the colour scheme dialog "easy" i'm sure you'll get along just fine with that too.
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 7:51pm
"i will not quibble with you what you consider to be more usable for you. for the majority of the users we talked to and/or watched use kcontrol live over the course of many years, the tree view simply isn't very friendly."
Yeah, make it dumb-friendly so even dumb users can use it. But note that this will repel non-dumb users. Is that what you want? AFAIK systemsettings was designed by kubuntu to ease the switch from winxp and osx. That's all, nothing about friendliness.
"to compare/contrast: i don't use the tree view and yet now i'm saddled with it as an option, should i complain about your "obvious lack of taste"? of course not."
This isn't a matter of taste, it's simply matter of NUMBER of clicks needed to browse from option to option. In some of my previous post here on dot I counted number of clicks needed to change some options. Using systemsettings that number is double the dumber of clicks needed when using tree in kcontrol. How is that friendly?
"first, plasma themes may opt to be colourized according to the desktop colour scheme."
Say I like oxygen but I want it to match my red-ish desktop color settings and reduce opacity a bit. How am I supposed to do that?
By vedranf at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 8:36am
System settings was first done by someone as an alternative to kcontrol. Later, Kubuntu picked it up to replace the rather unfriendly kcontrol. SS was bug fixed and IIRC it was one of KDE's usability experts El who did the research to determine what the categories and organisation should be. SS was then taken up in KDE 4. It was *all* about improving the usability of the configuration settings.
It is not a matter of clicks. It is a matter of normal people being able to use their computer; something which the old kcontrol was poor at.
By Simon Edwards at Sat, 2009/05/16 - 8:35am
Easy-to-learn ain't same as Easy-to-use.
[quote]It is not a matter of clicks. It is a matter of normal people being able to use their computer; something which the old kcontrol was poor at.[/quote]
It was matter how the _new users_ was be able to change settings easily. Not how _normal people_ or _advanced_ people.
There is almost every time two different lines.
1) Easy to learn
Software can be easy to learn, but difficult to use.
The midway is always hardest to find, usually impossible.
Most important part is, that the UI/Settings are by _default_ in the easy-to-learn -mode. The advanced and power users know how to tweak UI and settings how they like it, so they wont be in their way doing jobs. But new users do not know it, and they do not even know what they want, yet!
So when blockin the advanced/power users possibilities to tweak the settings/UI, the application actually turns out to be worse than what was the original meaning of usability.
We can find in the usability tests so many times how new users see things, but many times in the tests is forgotten the advanced and power users who does things in different ways and the study goes wrong right away.
Example, the great feature of the KDE4 applications like Konqueror, is that user can tweak it's toolbars how she/he pleases. Problem on the KDE3 was that by default, the konqueror toolbars were full of buttons for every function what power users needed. Konqueror did not gain popularity among new users because of it, but was popular among power users.
Now on KDE4, the toolbar was set _by default_ to easy mode, what made konqueror gain popularity among new users, but among power users as well, because they could tweak the toolbars how they wanted. So both were happy.
What was the only thing what mattered there? Options, tweaks and other features what many KDE developers now starts to blaim as disease of usability. But they make error there, because the error was simple as wrong _default_ settings.
Dragonplayer or Kontact are one of kinds what has usability problems in basic levels. They do not allow hide the menu on Ctrl+M. You can hide toolbar or even other important panels, but not menu. Even the normal user would never use the menu but just toolbar, it is not possible to hide menu. Developers gives excuses about how normal users would hide the menu by mistake and would not get it back etc.
That is easy to get over. 1) add function to hide menu by shortcut. 2) place the shortcut by default unassigned.
Then those who want to have menu hided, can go to shortcut functions and assign ctrl+M there and then use the feature. If someone actually does such thing that assigns a shortcut for that actions and then does not know how to get it back, you can not protect her/him from anykind mistakes by removing the hide menu capabilities. Developers only makes all other users to suffer from bad default settings again, by protecting only those few who would make the mistake in the first place.
By Fri13 at Tue, 2009/05/19 - 9:50am
Beginning of Bug Hunting Season ... really?
With all my respect to OSS, KDE developers and to you personally, I have to say that something is terribly wrong with KDE development model.
There are over a hundred severe bugs filed in KDE's bugzilla (with thousands(!) of duplicates), there are wishes that have earned over 100 points and you say "Bug Hunting Season" in KDE 4.3?
Take for example Konqueror. It has no firefox3/ie8/opera10 like location bar. It lacks any sane history management (group by sites or by date with no intervals like today, yesterday, last week, last year; no ability to search in history; etc). It has no good ad blocking (no subscriptions, no separation between subscribed list and your own entries). In KDE4 Konqueror still opens text documents in external KWrite application instead of its own window, it has no progressive PNG/JPG showing (Gwen KIO part cannot do that right now). It has no ability to export/import own/other browsers settings, passwords or history. It has absolutely incomplete and bad KWallet usage (user/password are URL/PATH/ dependent), no ability to store more than one user/password for a single form... I can go on infinitely.
This is not a rant.
I just want KDE to be really usable and I don't care much about all that fancy features meant to compete with Windows or/and MacOS.
Right now KDE and its base components are barely usable. That's very sad. However I'm still glad that you are years ahead of Gnome in every regard.
Please, take care of old sores - eliminate long standing bugs. Raise funds and fund developers who can solve long standing bugs.
Thank you.
By Artem S. Tashkinov at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 7:59pm
> and you say "Bug Hunting Season" in KDE 4.3?
Yes we do. In fact, that's why we have such periods: to force a focus off of feature development and what not and focus on improving stability, performance and behaviour.
> Take for example Konqueror.
I agree with you about Konqueror: it is severely lacking in developer effort on the as-a-web-browser front.
> This is not a rant.
I beg to differ. Ranting is not necessarily a bad thing, but let's call it what it is :)
> Please, take care of old sores - eliminate long standing bugs.
We are, there's just a lot to do; you can help us go faster :)
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 8:03pm
Re: *cough*
I strongly believe KDE should start earning hard money (ads on all KDE related sites, t-shirts with KDE art style, "Donate Here" all over the place, etc) to hire several more full time developers.
You do insane amount of work but to make KDE feature-rich and bug-free you need more dedicated developers, not those spare-time guys who are helping you today and may disappear in Valhalla tomorrow. KDE's progress is doubly unbelievable since there are over five thousands full-time developers working on Microsoft/Windows 7 alone.
By Artem S. Tashkinov at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 8:16pm
Simply no!
It's not an advantage to hire developers. If you have 10 full-time developers, there is also a risk of one or two quitting their job and moving to another corp. This risk is much more real and fearing than one of 100 spare-time devs vanishing (which is actually happening quite often in such a big project as KDE is).
Also, full-time developers would divide the community into two groups, which is certainly very bad. (See also the discussion on whether to introduce a bounty system in Bugzilla.)
By majewsky at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 9:45pm
over five thousands
> over five thousands full-time developers working on Microsoft/Windows 7
no.. it's not nearly that number... (only counting developers)
in fact, even the single project "Linux Kernel" nowadays has about the same no of people working on it as the whole "windows division" inside MS...
By thomas at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 3:50pm
KDE and online security, only half way
Last I checked, the TLS/SSL module (or whatever it is called) totally lacked support for CRL or OCSP, so any revocation of certtificates, even manual, goes by totally ignored by KDE. I have not seen any changelog indicating that anything is done of yet. Will there ever be any focus on fixing this rather severe problem?
By kolla at Fri, 2009/05/15 - 1:47am
Hi > It has no
> It has no firefox3/ie8/opera10 like location bar
Its getting developed as a google summer of code project which you can follow here: http://edulix.wordpress.com/
> It lacks any sane history management
Actually i'd be happy to inform you that this has been added.In 4.3 its placed in 'go' menu.you can try it out.It has both site and date sorting.
> It has no good ad blocking
this one always worked good for me.
> Konqueror still opens text documents in external KWrite application instead of its own window
Go to Settings->Configure konqueror->File associations, select 'text' and check the 'open in embedded viewer' option.
> It has absolutely incomplete and bad KWallet usage
I agree that it can be smarter than it is, but it has been imroved for 4.3.At least the ui is now a lot better.
KDE is one of the most active FOSS projects.The development happens really fast and features and volunteers are 'flowing' into it.The switch to 4 series was a huge job and all those pillars are now starting to get intergrated.You can already see how far kde has become since two years ago when 4.0 was released.
Please do not blame kde's development model.Its just the matter of time.
By emilsedgh at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 8:17pm
> this one always worked good for me.
Once again: no subscriptions, no separation between (now missing) subscriptions and user generated rules.
> Go to Settings->Configure konqueror->File associations, select 'text' and check the 'open in embedded viewer' option.
I suppose most people prefer that behavior to be a default.
> Please do not blame kde's development model.Its just the matter of time.
Or maybe not since there are a lot of unresolved bugs filed at the beginning of this millennium, i.e. up to 6 years ago.
I wasn't clear: Kde's development model is just fine - the real problem is that there are not enough qualified and dedicated developers.
By Artem S. Tashkinov at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 9:40pm
Um... no.
> I suppose most people prefer that behavior to be a default.
Normal people expect a webbrowser to be different from a text editor. This is the advantage of Konqueror: It just works for normal users, and is a swiss army knife to the power user.
By majewsky at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 9:48pm
More developers would indeed
More developers would indeed be good. But then again, wouldn't it always? If you have ideas on how to get more developers in KDE, let us know...
We are working a bit on the money front, btw, not sure if adds on the websites and selling t-shirts would help a lot but we have some ideas.
By Jos Poortvliet at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 6:20am
[quote]Once again: no
[quote]Once again: no subscriptions, no separation between (now missing) subscriptions and user generated rules.[/quote]
Well, I do not need those because I use same filtersets as I use on Firefox on Windows systems.
I just import the AdBlock lists and I am good to go. No need to add other filters or manage those.
I am happy about that but I think that import feature need to be easier, by making easy link to set it.
Or then make easy to block wanted addresses by right clickin ad (even flash etc) and selecting "block address" and allow user to tweak the address by adding asterisks or joker marks.
By Fri13 at Tue, 2009/05/19 - 9:57am
Duel head support?
I would just hear if kde 4.3 has support for 2 x session on 2 screens eka bug 156475,
By beer at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 6:58pm
Dual head support?
Sorry to break the news but it does not.
Dual head is a feature I personally have no way of testing, which none of our devs use (some do use Xinerama, however) and which is used by a vanishing small number of people.
There absolutely is a certain segment of our user base who would very much like to see this happen. I'm sure it eventually will, but perhaps all the dual-headers out there should try and come up with a way to convince someone to actually implement it.
Don't sit and wait for others.
It's not all dour news though: the plasma application global options in kde 4.3 are now moved out into their own config file which should make implementing this a bit easier.
By Aaron Seigo at Wed, 2009/05/13 - 9:34pm
Multi headed display use case: DTV transition
With the impending all-out indroduction of digital and HDTV broadcasting in Europe, the use of multi headed displays in media-center PCs and set-top-devices (recorders etc.) will likely become more interesting in just a few months from now.
1st display:
2nd display:
By RamsdenSource at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 2:17am
I have this setup with KDE4
I have this setup with KDE4 and Xinerama (1 HDMI + 1 Touchscreen) and it is working very nice.
I'm not sure what the benefit would be, to use dual head setup, instead of Xinerama.
By fabian at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 7:23am
There is 3 reason for me to
There is 3 reason for me to use duel head instead of Xinerama:
1: when I tab between the programs I prefer to see those I am actual working with. They are place on on screen/desktop and I have a few programs on the 2. desktop that I only whant to watch but not interfere with my work/tabbing souch as konversation, pidgin and ktorrent
2: becouse of I have 2 screen with 2 defferent screen size I cannot see the whole of my Desktop if using Xinerama becouse screen nr 2 has a lower number pixel in hight that my primary screen
3: The last problem is not with Xinerama itself. A few program that I use get confused in full screen. Eks glob2 tries to cover the whole desktop but is only shown on the screen it was launced
By beer at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 7:39am
There is 2 methods I can
There is 2 methods I can convince people to make it (at least to my knowledge). One is filling in bug reports at bugs.kde.org and then vote for them whitch is already done by me.
If this does not work I know only another way and that is throughing money at the problem whitch I cannot affort now (I am a student)
And maybe the duel-head users are vanishing becouse of it is missing in kde 4. And they prefer using kde 4 without duel head instead of kde 3.5 with duel head.
I have tried to use Xinerama but it did not feel right (specielt that part when I have to tab trough all programes instead of just those on one of the Desktop. )
So the button line is I am still using kde 3.5 and will do so in min another release cyckle and hope that someone would fix it
By beer at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 5:43am
Cite Aaron Seigo:"Dual head
Cite Aaron Seigo:"Dual head is a feature I personally have no way of testing"
By beer at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 7:24am
It would be great to have more people help out in Raptor menu. I think that kickoff is a bad implementation, and doesn't glue well with kde4. Please give more attention to the (raptor) menu.
By Autumnautist at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 7:09am
module for hardware events?
I've read in the anounsement that there is new module to configure actions triggered by hardware events. Where can I find it?
Futher, on the website, about howto compile this version, the new package kdelibs-experimental is not mentioned anywhere. It should.
Stef Bon
By Stef Bon at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 1:56pm
I just wanted to thank everyone on team KDE for the amazing work that's taken place since 4.0 was released. 4.2 was a particularly impressive improvement for me and set the bar high for 4.3. Now I'm excited about the integration and visibility of Nepomuk / Strigi / Desktop search and many of the other shiny news toys promised.
I just with those Kubuntu packages would hurry up and come down the line so I can try this! Heh, maybe I'll just go and install Karmic on my old laptop instead... :D
Anyway, I've been highly impressed by both the forward looking decisions in KDE with the pillars, and the rapid improvement that we've seen. Remember, the people who hate *any* change, while whining today, will eventually be the ones who will be proclaiming that everyone should be jumping from KDE 3.5 to 4 (once they're used to it! ;-)
Great job KDE community! 4.3 development looks like it's rocking hard!
By Bugsbane at Thu, 2009/05/14 - 10:59pm
And that's only 4.3...
Let's see how 4.4 will be, when the GSoC students have finished their projects and merged them into trunk. Awesomebar for Konqueror, a new widget explorer and network transparency in Plasma, 3D mode in Step, etc. etc. I just can't wait for it.
By majewsky at Sat, 2009/05/16 - 9:22am
>There is a new tree view
>There is a new tree view mode in System Settings
What's about admin mode (bug #151669) in System Settings? It's one of really important defects. It would be nice if you focus on functionality, not on visual effects.
By generatorglukoff at Sun, 2009/05/17 - 9:19am
I am deeply impressed by the progress made! However, stability is still a problem. I counted three unexpected application crashes so far. I sincerely hope that special attention will be put on improvements of the stability. So I can only recommend you to release more often, also with full debug information enabled.
In addition to that there are still many trivial quality issues recorded in EBN
Probably KDE needs a more highlevel automated testsuite to track the maturity.
Where do I find information on how to build the development version from trunk?
By André at Mon, 2009/05/18 - 1:41am
Akonadi really in beta state?
Currently testing KDE 4.3 Beta 1 and recent upstreams.
By René at Tue, 2009/05/19 - 11:40am
Feature Freeze
Feature freeze means that developers are not allowed to add features to the feature plan (exceptions can be discussed).
After the feature freeze, which was about 3 weeks ago, developers finalize the features they have added to the feature plan. This may include bug fixing, and of course changing implementation details (such as a protocol version) if it helps fixing bugs.
To find bugs very early, builds of KDE are released shortly after the feature freeze. Bugfixing continues in the branches after trunk opens again for new features.
This means that 4.3.0 will contain bugs, the release will only be delayed on "show stopper" bugs. The speed of bug fixing largely depends on how many developers can help, and how much time developers can spend.
Regarding crashes, I should note that it IMMENSELY helps developers if the crashes are reported with FULL debug information (including source file line numbers) for both KDE and Qt libraries. I have seen several crash reports for the KRandR KControl module, but was never able to see why it crashed, until someone posted the full backtrace. Fixing it was then a job of a few hours. So much for people that say that bugs are open for years...
While crashes are probably the worst bugs, please note that developers are also willing to fix minor UI glitches, like color, font, or layout problems, so please report these, too. Do not wait for others to report them, even if you think that it is an "obvious bug".
By christoph at Wed, 2009/05/20 - 2:04am
Kubuntu packages
FYI Kubuntu packages http://www.kubuntu.org/node/81 are utterly broken. There's a conflict between kdebase-data (IIRC) and kde-icons-oxygen and the upgrade leaves you with a broken KDE setup.
EDIT: They've changed the post, now it talks only about 4.3b1 being in Karmic. No more Jaunty. I hope they'll put it back... I'd like to give beta1 feedback to KDE devs without having to pass through the entire OS beta trial.
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Second Alpha of KDevelop 3.0 (aka Gideon) is Out
The KDevelop team would like to announce the availability of KDevelop 3.0 Alpha 2, codenamed Gideon (screenshot). This release fixes many bugs since Alpha 1 was released over a month ago and adds a few minor features to the mix. Users of KDevelop 2.x will notice substantial improvements and are encouraged to begin upgrading so that new bugs can be identified and squashed. Both 2.x and 3.0 should work along side each other. See the KDevelop web site or the previous dot article for more information.
Having used the alpha 1 release for the past month, I just want to say that Gideon is a big step forward for KDevelop. The project has come a long way. All of you who have worked to make this possible should be really proud.
By Alexandros Karypidis at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
God this is offtopic
but where did KDE 3.1 final go? wasn't it due out on monday?
By standsolid at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: God this is offtopic
yeah.. it was. Last I heard 3.1 RC4 packages were made and they were waiting for the ok to call it final. Gentoo already has 3.1 final ebuilds available but unfortunately no source packages on the servers yet. My guess is that RC4 was ok'ed and everyone is in the process of tagging it in cvs, packaging, sending to packagers etc. and the announcement will come next week.
By frantik at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: God this is offtopic
Gentoo *sort of* has the ebuilds ready.
I unmasked all the 3.1 entries in my profile, but it still fails on not being able to find the QT it needs even if I unmask *all* the QT entries in my profile. So there's still a bit to be done there, but yes, you're still basically right, Gentoo's ready to go with this! :-)
I like Gentoo...
By Xanadu at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: God this is offtopic
Actually, if you go to /usr/portage/x11-libs/qt and manually do 'ebuild qt-3.1.ebuild merge' (or whatever it's called) it'll work.
By Rayiner Hashem at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: God this is offtopic
I think RC4 has been OK'd, and they're just waiting for the mirrors to catch up so they don't get overloaded when they announce it.
By Simon B at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: God this is offtopic
KDE 3.1 final will not be identical to RC4, read the release plan on http://developer.kde.org.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2002/11/24 - 6:00am
Re: God this is offtopic
Yes, it was due some time ago. But I'm quite relieved they didn't stick to the schedule.
The KDE compile I tried (rc4, with additional patches, on Debian unstable) was *buggy*. I identified and reported four showstopper bugs within half an hour of browsing around in the default configuration (seperate user account, empty .kde directory). Two of those have been fixed by now.
For example, kfontconfig crashes on Apply when you use ISO8859-15 fonts. The Kicker panel cannot span over multiple screens in Xinerama setups. And a couple others.
I'm just now beginning to learn C++ (and KDE development, where KDevelop was a *HUGE* help - thank you to all kdevelop developers!) and I'll be able to do more detailed reporting and perhaps even fixing bugs soon.
I urge everybody to try the RC5 release (it's in CVS and will probably appear in FTP sites soon), so that bugs that weren't found by the developers can be fixed BEFORE the release is out. That's the whole idea of RC releases.
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By Jens at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: God this is offtopic
There is no RC5 and likely will never be.
By Anonymous at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Problem with screenshot?
Am I the only one who has a problem seeing the PNG-file in Konqueror? it complains about image/PNG, but all other PNGs works great in my system...
By midnight_runner at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Problem with screenshot?
At least I am without any sort of png-troubles.
By Syllten at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Problem with screenshot?
is Qt compiled with PNG support ?
By Mathieu Jobin at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Kdevelop2 project
I hope it is on their TODO to implement a filter to import Kdevelop2 project.
By renaud at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Kdevelop2 project
A script called "kdevprj2kdevelop" already was available with the alpha1.
By Guenter Schwann at Sun, 2002/11/24 - 6:00am
Fonts & Type
Who actually codes with the text looking like that? That looks like garbage. How long will it take before people realize the importance of hinting? I hate to rant but seeing that screenshot and reading the latest comments on FreeType.org (they downplay hinting), it pains me to think that people using Xfree are going to strain their eyes with the excessive use of AA. The fact of the matter is that screen resolution has hit it's peek and is not going to change from 72-100 dpi for a /very/ long time so the importance of having bitmapped raster fonts for low resolution screen reading cannot be understated.
FreeType reasons that a lot of available fonts aren't properly hinted (tuned) for screen display, which is true, but the majority of fonts available, especially free fonts, are for graphics and print use. Not screen display. It just has to be accepted that screen fonts are just hard to make and thus there aren't too many out there. But that doesn't mean hinting /shouldn't/ be supported. People normally only use about three fonts on their computers (Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New) and two if they're using default KDE setup (Helvetica, Courier). Licensing issues are a bummer but that's business. Besides the distros, if already paying for AcroRead, RealPlayer, StarOffice, etc. should be able to pony up the cash to legally turn the bytecode interpreter on. I just leave AA off at the moment.
That's enought about that screenshot.
Anyway... I look forward to using KVim in Gideon.
Does anyone know what the support for Python is like?
By the window typi... at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Fonts & Type
I so agree with this, fonts is one of the things that keeps me coding on windows.
By fredrik c at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Fonts & Type
Choosing fonts to code in kde is a pain without the AA mess.
I'm tunning kde-rc3/mdk now and the new AA settings are just depressively blurred. I can tolerate jagged edges on characteres. I cannot tolerate bluriness on screen fonts.
I changed everything to helvetica/courier and sony/fixed. There must be something wrong with the fonts since it is percievable a quality decrease from xft1->xft2 with the byte hinter enabled.
Os course, it suites me right for running beta/rc software... I should have known better ;)
By zelegans at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Fonts & Type
That's strange...
I use Mandrake 9.0 on an LCD screen with Lucida Sans, Palatino Linotype and Lucida Console mainly. They look great ! Really.
I installed RedHat 8.0 recently on another machine and Nimbus fonts (Roman, Sans and fixed) look absolutely perfect.
On both PCs I use AA and it is very very nice.
By Julien Olivier at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Fonts & Type
Hm. I use a 133 DPI display (one of those high-res LCDs) and everything looks just peachy lightly hinted like that! I can stare at text for hours a day and it's like reading a piece of paper. Hinted, the fonts are illegible because they're so damn narrow.
By Rayiner Hashem at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Fonts & Type
The people at Freetype are most definitely NOT downplaying the importance of hinting. They are quite concerned with hinting. Because of the $*#@% apple patents on truetype bytecode, they can't enable the truetype bytecode interpreter. Distros could and should, but for some reason many haven't. In the absence of that, they have been working diligently on improving the auto-hinter. With the new Freetype version, they have toned down the autohinter to generate glyphs that are more correct (have the same proportions as the font designer intended) instead of distorting them. This produces more consistent-looking text. Also, they have fixed the bugs that caused the slanted parts of letters like 's' to disappear like in the article screenshot. They have also added a way for applications to specify what type of device they want the output optimized for (default, LCD, monochrome, etc). Unfortunately this change is not backwards-compatible so fonts may not be optimized for LCDs until applications are changed (QT 3.1 is changed).
If you look at the Freetype mailing list, you will see that several people are hard at work tweaking the autohinter in various ways. The rendering quality of Freetype is only going to improve. If you want the bytecode interpreter enabled, email your distro, or compile freetype yourself (it isn't that hard).
By not me at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Fonts & Type
Just improve fonts i KDE. They are blurred! And it's so important. I have pain in my eyes after working with KDE. It's a pity such a nice work as kde is unfauvored by the fonts.
By Jordi Ferrando at Wed, 2004/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: Fonts & Type
If you think GNOME looks better you may want to change freetype's font rendering setting as described by Rayiner Hashem at http://tinyurl.com/2eynt [osnews.com]
By Datschge at Wed, 2004/04/28 - 5:00am
Re: Fonts & Type
I have enabled the Bytecode Interpreter and compiled, and even installed the rpm available for my distro, and it looks sharper, but the fonts don't look any better. Bytecode interpreter rendering is that of Ubuntu, I don't really see the need to infringe.
By Webterractive at Fri, 2006/01/06 - 6:00am
Dead CVS servers!
Off Topic!!!!
Does it have a reason why the majority of KDE Anon CVS servers are down ? Some of them are down for nearly 2 Weeks now and the last one that I used died 3 days ago.
By Paradigma at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
From KDE-Devel-ML:
Re: when is anoncvs.kde.org to work properly again?
By Thorsten Schnebeck at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
Ahh this clarifies something. Thank you for information.
By Paradigma at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
anoncvs.kde.org works fine now (started working an hour ago). Just updated everything - nice.
By jmk at Sat, 2002/11/23 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
Does this also include the cvsup server? AFAIK it has not been updated for a long time (>2 weeks) and I would love to report some bugs. Unfortunately I don't want to do that without a recent cvs(up).
By Michael Jahn at Sun, 2002/11/24 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
By Anonymous at Tue, 2002/11/26 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
Thank You.
By Michael Jahn at Wed, 2002/11/27 - 6:00am
cvsup in sync again
By Anonymous at Wed, 2002/11/27 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
how does one specify additional C++FLAGS, Ive messed with export variables CXXFLAG etc, but nothing's happening
By ccrw at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
Use CFLAGS. It is picked up by configuration script for the C++ compiler too.
By Brent at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
I did export CFLAGS="-O3" as a test, and when compiling QT 3.1.0...it still used -O2. any reason why it ignores it?
By ccrw at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: Dead CVS servers!
grep QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE $QTDIR/mkspecs/linux-g++/qmake.conf
By Anonymous at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
[OFFTOPIC] Wine script...
I want to be able to run Wine programs from konqueror but with a little yes/no alert showing up before it's run.
Can anyone show me how to do this?
By isNaN at Sun, 2002/11/24 - 6:00am
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Wine script...
I'd write a script, sortof like this
By dwt at Sun, 2002/11/24 - 6:00am
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Wine script...
That worked great. Thanks!
By isNaN at Sun, 2002/11/24 - 6:00am
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Wine script...
Is that kdialog util a KDE 3.1 specific thing? I can't find it in my KDE 3.0.5 install (SuSE 8.1).
Arend jr.
By Arend van Beelen jr. at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Wine script...
it probably is, since I'm running kde-3.1_rc3.
By dwt at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Wine script...
It sounds like another port of the famous line of handy apps starting with dialog and Xdialog. They display menus, text files, progress bars, and other such handy things.
By Carbon at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: [OFFTOPIC] Wine script...
No it's not KDE3.1-specific. You might have to download it as seperapte application (RPM). At least for SuSE there is a package kdialog.rpm, which is not in the default-kde. I am using this with 3.0 i think it was already present in 2.x.
By Sebastian Eichner at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
QT-Copy doesnt compile :(
make[4]: Entering directory `/home/moo/cvs/kde31/qt-copy/tools/designer/designer'
By moocow at Mon, 2002/11/25 - 6:00am
Re: QT-Copy doesnt compile :(
I have the same problem with QT 3.1. under solaris, using the g++ 3.2.1. Did you found a solution for this problem?
10x a lot,
By Ionutz at Wed, 2003/01/15 - 6:00am
Re: QT-Copy doesnt compile :(
Google search took me to here.
gmake[4]: Leaving directory `/opt/local/qt/tools/designer/uilib'
By Coredump anniversary at Wed, 2003/05/14 - 5:00am
Re: QT-Copy doesnt compile :(
Make sure all the invoked executables are coming from
By Chen at Wed, 2003/08/13 - 5:00am
Re: QT-Copy doesnt compile :(
I tried to compile qt 3.3.3 and got the same message. Some investigaion showed that the uic utility was compiled with -rpath pointing to the new installation directory. The latter is empty because I did not have a chance to install anything yet. So, it picked some library from my LD_LIBRARY_PATH. When I changed the LD_LIBRASRY_PATH to point to the build directory, everything started working OK.
By Sergey at Wed, 2004/11/03 - 6:00am
Re: QT-Copy doesnt compile :(
I just solved this problem while trying to compile qt on RH 9. The problem was that an older version of the qt dll was being used by uic. Not the one that was just built.
Do ldd on uic. It shows what version of qt uic is using. Make sure it is the one you just built in QTDIR/lib.
By beerinstein at Mon, 2005/01/17 - 6:00am
Re: QT-Copy doesnt compile :(
By LoL at Sat, 2007/04/07 - 5:00am
Re: QT-Copy doesnt compile :(
Hi, I have the same problem here...
By Nick at Wed, 2007/05/16 - 5:00am


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Other Proposed Uses
Kelp refers to several species of large, brown algae that can grow to enormous sizes far out in the depths of the ocean. Kelp is a type of seaweed, but not all seaweed is kelp: "seaweed" loosely describes any type of vegetation growing in the ocean, including many other types of algae and plants.
Kelp is a regular part of a normal human diet in many parts of the world, such as Japan, Alaska, and Hawaii. It is also incorporated into some vitamin and mineral supplements because of its nutrient value. Kelp is a good source of folic acid (a B vitamin), as well as many other vitamins and minerals—especially iodine ; but iodine is also a potential source of side effects (see Safety Issues below).
Supplements containing kelp can be purchased at most pharmacies and health food stores. Kelp used in food preparation is available at groceries that stock specialties for Asian cooking.
Therapeutic Dosages
There is no appropriate "therapeutic" dosage of kelp, as it is not yet known whether kelp is truly therapeutic for any conditions. However, because of its high iodine content, it is important not to overdo your use of kelp. The iodine content in 17 different kelp supplements studied by one group of researchers varied from 45 to 57,000 mcg per tablet or capsule. 1 The recommended daily intake for iodine is 150 mcg per day for people over the age of four, and taking a great deal more than this can cause thyroid problems (see Safety Issues ).
Therapeutic Uses
Kelp is used primarily as a nutrient-rich food supplement.
The results of highly preliminary test tube and animal studies have suggested other potential uses for kelp. For example, there is some evidence that elements in kelp might help to prevent infection with several kinds of viruses, including influenza , 2herpes simplex , 3 and HIV . 4 Similarly weak evidence hints that kelp possesses cancer preventive effects, 5-10 and may lower blood pressure . 11 However, far more research, including double-blind, placebo-controlled studies , would be necessary to know whether kelp is actually helpful for any of these health problems. (For information on why this type of study is essential, see Why Does This Database Depend on Double-Blind Studies? )
Additionally, kelp has been marketed as a weight-loss product , but there are no meaningful scientific studies to indicate that it is effective for this purpose.
Another common claim regarding kelp is that, because of its high iodine content, it can help all kinds of thyroid problems. This claim, however, is misleading and even dangerous. It is true that if you are deficient in iodine, kelp is probably good for you, but iodine deficiency is rare, and taking extra iodine when you don't need it can cause dysfunction of the thyroid (see Safety Issues ).
Safety Issues
Taking excessive kelp can overload the body with iodine and cause either hypothyroidism or hyperthyroidism —conditions in which the thyroid gland either produces too little or too much thyroid hormone. 12-18,22 This is a potentially dangerous side effect and is definitely cause for caution. If your thyroid gland is already functioning incorrectly, you should avoid high doses of kelp except on a physician's advice.
Additionally, published reports describe two cases of acne apparently caused or worsened by taking large doses of kelp. 19 This effect is also believed to be due to the large amounts of iodine in the supplement.
Finally, some kelp supplements have been found to contain levels of arsenic high enough to be toxic. 20,21, 23 Seawater contains highly diluted arsenic, but kelp (like other ocean life) can concentrate arsenic in its tissues, and there are reports of two people with symptoms of arsenic poisoning who had been consuming kelp.
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