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If I say, "She's so granola," you know exactly what I mean -- she's a tree-hugging, free-spirited, hemp-wearing woman with long graying hair who wears her well-worn Birkenstocks to walk to the local co-op where she buys only fair-trade goods.
Does that mean that a short-haired, Anthrolpologie-wearing, Cosmo-drinking girl with a 401K like me can't be "granola"? Cause I eat a lot of it.
I don't buy it at the local co-op; I make my own, while wearing high heels. Making homemade granola is easy and allows you to control the fat, sugar, and calorie content. It's also less expensive. Don't pay $5.00/pound for pre-made granola when you can buy oats for 79 cents a pound.
My current favorite is Easy Homemade Crunchy Maple Walnut Granola, a hearty maple-coated granola loaded with clusters of sticky walnuts and coconut, crisp banana chips, and tart cherries. I know it's expensive, but you have to use pure maple syrup.
Recently someone said to me, "You're so Mad Men in that dress." Hah. Little do they know I'm so granola.
Be sure to check out my homemade Cherry, Prune, and Almond Granola pictured above.
Easy Homemade Crunchy Maple Walnut Granola
Yield: Approximately 7 cups
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4 cups old-fashioned rolled oats
3/4 cup shredded sweetened coconut
1 1/2 cups coarsely chopped walnuts
3/4 cup dried tart cherries
3/4 cup dried banana chips
3/4 cup pure maple syrup
1/4 cup unsalted butter (or butter substitute such as Smart Balance)
1-2 teaspoons maple extract*
1 /2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg
1. Preheat oven to 300 degrees F. Combine first 5 ingredients in a medium bowl.
2. In a small pan over medium heat, melt maple syrup and butter. Remove from heat; stir in maple extract, salt, cinnamon, and nutmeg.
3. Pour maple-butter mixture over the oat mixture and stir until well coated. Spread mixture on a large rimmed baking sheet coated with cooking spray. Bake for 20-25 minutes, stirring once or twice, until granola is golden brown. (If you want it extra crunchy, then turn off heat and leave in the warm oven for another 20-25 minutes.) Cool completely. Store in an airtight container at room temperature for up to 2 weeks.
*Note: Maple extract is intensely flavored, so it's a great, reduced calorie way to cut down on the amount of maple syrup needed. It's available in the spice section of most major supermarkets. If you can't find it, then add an extra 1/4 cup of maple syrup to the recipe.
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Here are more homemade granola recipes you might enjoy:
Glorious Granola recipe at Cookie Baker Lynn
Coconut Almond Granola recipe at Baking Bites
Hearty Homemade Granola recipe at Adventures in Shaw
Very Nutty Homemade Granola recipe at The Passionate Cook
Granola with Almonds, Apricots, Cranberries, and Pineapple recipe at The Kitchn
28 comments:
- Rosa's Yummy Yums said...
Homemade granola is fantastic! yours look really good!
- January 13, 2010 at 9:40 AM
- The Teacher Cooks said...
I do buy granola, but now you have given me a good excuse to make it. It looks and sounds delicious. I am sure the cherries really add to the favor.
- January 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- Angela @ A Spoonful of Sugar said...
This sounds and looks amazing! I have to get back making granola when I'm able to eat oats again :)
- January 13, 2010 at 9:45 AM
- Maria said...
I am glad you posted the recipe. I knew I needed it after seeing your photo on Twitter. Going to make this this weekend.
- January 13, 2010 at 10:09 AM
- The Food Hunter said...
this is great. I'm going to try making both kinds maybe this weekend. Thanks
- January 13, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- Soma said...
The best. The best!
- January 13, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- T.W. Barritt at Culinary Types said...
OK, the image of you making granola in the kitchen in heels is tres elegant!
- January 13, 2010 at 11:29 AM
- Sean said...
Granola in high heels - awesome haha
These would be really good in some yogurt right now...
- January 13, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- Abby said...
Actually, we call them "crunchy." Heh. And I'd love for someone to say I'm so "Mad Men" in a dress!
This looks great. I'm sure my lil' C. would love it. He's into anything crunchy and sweet, so it would be nice to feed him something other than cookies!
- January 13, 2010 at 2:16 PM
- Valerie Harrison (bellini) said...
I know exactly what you mean Susan. In Southern BC we have plenty of what I call "granola bars" but I'd be the one eating the maple flavoured granola topping my Greek yogurt.
- January 13, 2010 at 2:59 PM
- symphonious sweets said...
This is just what I need today some homemade granola. I live in the crunchy granola capital Eugene Oregon, we are not just granola here but crunchy!
- January 13, 2010 at 4:42 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
teachercooks-I prefer them to raisins.
angela-Hope it's soon!
maria-Yay! Hope you enjoy it!
foodhunter-That's doubly wonderful!
soma-Thank you so much!
tw-Tres elegant. I love it.
sean-Yeah, it's an image, alright. An insane one. ;)
abby-Oh, yeah. I think "crunchy" is more East Coast.
val-In Cananda too, huh? And I had it on Greek yogurt for breakfast this morning.
symphonioussweets-Oh, I'm so glad you commented! I needed some input from a native "crunchy granola" type. ;)
- January 13, 2010 at 6:11 PM
- kitchen table said...
I really like homemade granola! I remember my mother who makes some every now and then. So delicious.
- January 13, 2010 at 7:51 PM
- Tasty Eats At Home said...
That looks scrumptious! I like your description of "granola". It's funny how times change, and "granola" has now shifted/expanded to a different group of people. I too am pretty granola - but I wear makeup, high heels, and also like to include fancy indulgences such as truffle oil in my diet - along with granola!
- January 14, 2010 at 6:08 AM
- Kelly said...
Oh I am a granola LOVAH!! Thanks for this!!
- January 14, 2010 at 1:38 PM
- kate said...
I'm totally granola, and homemade at that. Lately we've been on a Cherry Coconut granola kick. Divine!
- January 15, 2010 at 4:35 AM
I make two batches of granola a week, but I've always used oil. Butter actually sounds much better. I don't know what it is about the maple syrup but nothing gives granola quite the same light crunchiness. I've substituted everything from brown sugar to honey (because they are way cheaper) and still keep coming back to the maple syrup.
I'll skip the high heels though-graceful ain't my thing and I'd probably break a hip ;)
- January 15, 2010 at 9:52 AM
- Lydia (The Perfect Pantry) said...
I'm much more the crunchy granola type myself: Birkenstocks, and gray hair (which used to be long and flowing!). And I still make my own granola, too.
- January 15, 2010 at 8:29 PM
- Homemade Heaven said...
I am not granola, but I do love to eat it - we call it muesli.
I am waiting for my friend to come out in May from Canada and bring me some real maple syrup - I have never eaten the real stuff before. Then I am going to try this - provided he brings me more than teaspoon full!
- January 16, 2010 at 7:39 AM
- Unknown said...
Wonderful recipe! I made this last night and man is it a hit this morning. Now I can never go back to pre-packaged granola! Thanks!
- January 16, 2010 at 8:07 AM
- Lori Lynn said...
Susan - you are it - You go granola girl!
- January 16, 2010 at 7:16 PM
- We Are Not Martha said...
Homemade granola is the best!! But the addition of maple?? YUM!!
- January 17, 2010 at 4:23 PM
- Manggy said...
Oh, awesome! I love this on top of yoghurt and berries - it's the best way ;)
- January 17, 2010 at 5:51 PM
- Susan from Food Blogga said...
kitchen table-It is delicious.
tastyeatsathome-I love it-- granola, truffle oil, and high heels.
kelly-Granola "LOVAH." That made me smile. :)
kate-Well, you know I love cherry and coconut granola too!
anonymous-I prefer butter to oil primarily because of the flavor. I find the oil sometimes leaves an unpleasant aftertaste. As for pure maple syrup, there's nothing quite like it.
lydia-Long and flowing? That's hard for me to imagine!
rose-He'd better bring you more than that!
david-Oh, I'm so happy to hear that! Thanks, David!
sues-Maple syrup makes everything better.
mark-That's what I had for breakfast this morning!
- January 18, 2010 at 10:08 AM
- Lisa Johnson said...
Love this post! I love granola too, but have never thought of myself as the "crunchy granola" type. I like cute shoes! I guess that stereotype has to change. ; )
- January 18, 2010 at 12:03 PM
- Cookie baker Lynn said...
Beautiful granola - I love the cherries in it. I'm like you, a mass of contradictions. I eat granola and occasionally tofu, had home births with midwives, homeschool, but I am not the least bit hippyish.
- January 19, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- Julie said...
This looks incredible, Susan! I'm going to whip some up this weekend. I absolutely love homemade granola, but have actually never made it (only enjoyed it when others made it for me). Thanks for the inspiration, from one anthropologie wearing granola to another. :-)
- January 21, 2010 at 12:42 PM
Looove homemade granola. I've got it on my list of things to do soon!
- January 23, 2010 at 12:29 PM


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Kubuntu 6.10 Released
Kubuntu 6.10, codenamed Edgy Eft, is hot on the download mirrors, this release is based on the brand new KDE 3.5.5. For all your photo needs the award winning digiKam is now installed by default and renowned artwork by the beloved Oxygen artist Ken Wimer shines all over. On top of this Kubuntu makes the perfect platform for KDE 4 development and porting KDE 3 applications with all the KDE 4 development libraries available along with Qt 4.2.
What have they done with the K-Menu?
-Where are the "most often used applications" (should be on top of "all applications") (This one is very useful!)
Have they fixed Konqueror filemanager?
Selecting (in Icon mode) file_003.jpg, pressing shift, and selecting e.g. file_023.jpg does not select all files between file_003.jpg and file_023.jpg but only those inside the rectangle defined by file_003.jpg and file_023.jpg.
By Max at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
> -Where are the "most often used applications" (should be on top of "all
> -Where is the incremental search bar?
By Thiago Macieira at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
"Recently used apps" can be turned. There was an incremental search bar???
Thanks go out to the great people on the Kubuntu team. It's been a pleasure to work with you guys (and gals). :-)
By Simon Edwards at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
I like how tight and small that menu is. :)
By Ian Monroe at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
"Where is the incremental search bar? (This one is useful!)"
Thats never been in the official KDE, the incremental search bar is provided by a patch developed by SuSE.
By Corbin at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
Why is it still missing in official KDE 3.5.5? It is widely deployed and tested and a it improves usability of the K-Menu.
Or will KDE 3.5.6 feature Suse's new Kickoff Menu?
By Max at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
Because it's debatable if the search bar really such a great improvement and couldn't be done better. Plus it's a fairly big change, so it has to be tested very thoroughly (also usability wise) to go in. As for Kickoff, it's not debateable for KDE 3.5.
By Daniel Molkentin at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
> Because it's debatable if the search bar really such a great improvement
You have installed a new application. What do you do? Search all of your K-menu hierarchie? Is Google Picasa under Graphics/editor or Graphics/viewer or Graphics/photography or additional programs or...?
KDE does not support highlighting of newly installed program entries (as WinXP does). So a search bar is the only way to quickly find a random program.
> Plus it's a fairly big change, so it has to be tested very thoroughly (also
If it's released with OpenSuse than it's tested and used by a wider audience than any other developer-only feature.
Look at Gnome, they are steadily improving. Keeping KDE always on the level of KDE 3.3 or 3.0 does not make things better. The K-menu was nice at KDE 3.4 times but now there are better alternatives. Waiting till everyone has switched to Gnome and then releasing KDE 4.0 won't make many people happy.
> As for Kickoff, it's not debateable for KDE 3.5.
KDE development seems to become more and more drooping. Where is all the innovation gone? If a new feature (like Kickoff) is better than the old one in 96% of all cases and slightly worse in the remaining 4% than it's "not debateable" to ship.
What about 3.5.6 beta? If Users don't like the new features, one can always revert (or improve!!!) some features. Amarok did the same as the users did not like the new layout.
KDE could be so much better by only taking the low hanging fruits.
By Max at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
Eh? Have you followed the KDE project at all for the last year? Have you completely missed the fact that the developers are working hard on KDE4 which looks like it will bring an insane amount of cool new stuff to KDE?
It sure sounds like it...
By Joergen Ramskov at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
Well, it's probably just under graphics. I personally love that their menu is uncluttered and simple. Some subcategories and that's it, not subcategories under subcategories. Kubuntu is the first distribution I met with a nice looking kde with not too many programs and not too many menus.
By Matthias Logghe at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
Well, I personally don't like crippled and tiny menus like kbfx and kickoff. I need a menu with subcategories in subcategories so I can sort the entries as much as possible and am able to see the subcategories and the entries together. In kbfx you have to scroll a lot which is just horrible for me (not to mention its super tiny size), I need to have everything visible. And in kickoff (which imho looks much more usable than kbfx) you also have to scroll and you cannot look at the categories and the entries at the same time because the entries panel seems to slide of the categories (that's like the icon view mode in kcontrol, I'm feeling very uncomfortable with it). I hope KDE 4 will have a "classic" mode with the current kmenu style (which I like a lot) and a "normal" icon-sized button.
By JaKi at Sun, 2006/11/05 - 6:00am
Re: K-Menu
KDE 3.x is currently in a "chilly" status. ie. It there isn't a complete feature freeze in effect, but there are strict conditions under which new features can be added to the KDE 3.5.x series.
The reason being that most exciting stuff is happening in the KDE 4 world.
Having said that, distributions are free to make their own modifications to the KDE 3.x series which others can then use. Suse 10.2 users will see a replacement for the K menu before KDE 4, and hopefully a few other distributions might make use of it as well.
By Robert Knight at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
And besides k-menu and kickoff, there is also kbfx as menu replacement.
By AC at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
and tasty menu... ;-)
By superstoned at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: K-Menu
After using SuSE for a while, I found this feature to be very useful ever since I switched to Debian I miss this feature the most so...
Is it possible to apply this patch to other distros like Debian?
By btag at Mon, 2007/06/18 - 5:00am
I've been using Kubuntu Edgy for about a week, and I can say it's an impressive work. Very smooth distro :)
I did not like the Dapper release much, but this one feels a lot more polished. Thanks to Riddell, Imbrandon, Hobbsee, and all the others!
By Mark Kretschmann at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Re: Kudos!
Agreed. The most useful thing for me is the patch to get rid of media:/ and replace it with /media.
Seriously, this should go into KDE itself. Accessing media files in KDE is completely crippled in a default install. Any non-kde app (and even some KDE apps) will choke on a media:/ URL. Kubuntu fixes this in a very nice way.
By Leo S at Thu, 2006/10/26 - 5:00am
Kioslave hell
Right. Also the system:/ kioslave conflicts even with the KDE trashcan on my machine. (Not to say anything about amarok/kaffeine/xine/konqueror/openoffice etc etc etc not understanding eachother because of media:/ system:/ home:/ etc). I wonder why these thing are there first of all. While I couldn't find a real use for them, I'm quite confident that some people out there do use them on purpose. But is that use worth breaking all the file system hierarchy standards and forcing all KDE and non-KDE apps to either find a way to cope with this or simply lose compatibility?
By Gato at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
given the average user's difficulty with the unix filesystem, discussions of portability, etc and the gnashing of teeth about it a few years ago, i find these threads ironic.
trace backwards from where we are today with these urls and discover the reasons why they were added: what was the purpose, what was the motivation, etc.
i'm not overly happy with how it works right now, but the "run away! ioslaves!" meme is lacking in appreciation of the whole problem.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
>> given the average user's difficulty with the unix filesystem,
Not quite. Maybe the average user has difficulty with the cryptic names like /usr and /etc (I know I did) but I don't believe they have difficulty with /home or /media or similarly meaningful paths.
>> discussions of portability
Fair enough. I see that there is some attraction to presenting a consistent path across platforms. I think it is misguided though. Java tried the same thing with their UI and failed miserably. People don't care that a Java program works the same across platforms, they just notice that it works differently than the other programs on their platform.
>> i'm not overly happy with how it works right now, but the "run away! ioslaves!" meme is lacking in appreciation of the whole problem.
I don't fail to appreciate the problem. I'm saying that the solution is completely unusable for even the simplest use cases, and therefore is not a solution at all. As I have said many times, a very very common task is for a user to plug in a camera or usb thumb drive and open a file on it. If they are lucky, it will open in a KDE application that is aware of the media:/ URL and opens it correctly. If they are unlucky, which is often the case, the application will bring up an error, which will be completely incomprehensible to the user.
Kaffeine says something like "Cannot open remote files", and any non-kde app doesn't even have a chance at opening it.
This is not a little inconvenience for users, this is a huge showstopper that will prevent most users from using files on a removable storage device that isn't set up in /etc/fstab. These devices (any usb mass storage device) are becoming ubiquitous because they are so useful, but with a stock KDE it is incredibly hard to do anything useful with them.
I'm not saying ioslaves are bad. Ioslaves rock for resources that are not equivalent to a local path. fish:// if great, man:// is fine, settings:// is fine because they access resources that are otherwise not easily accessed and everything works inside them. media:/ and home:/ are bad, because they are just pointing at a local path on the filesystem, and they break applications which try to work with those files.
By Leo S at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
Full ACK!
By Michael at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> given the average user's difficulty with the unix filesystem
I've set up Linux on my girlfriend's laptop (yes I know, big mistake, never give Linux to non-techies unless you're in for total maintenance). It took some minutes for her to get accustomed to the UNIX filesystem hierarchy - this means /home, for instance, not /etc or /usr. /etc and /usr are just intractable for non-techies and it really doesn't matter whether you expose them as real or imaginary filesystems.
While she can certainly browse and use the filesystem, she is defenselessly delivered to the abusive kioslaves. She cannot open the AudioCD icon on the desktop with Amarok because xine won't do audiocd:/ (fixed in the meanwhile by special efforts from Amarok). She must copy all MS Office documents that she touches somewhere in /home, just to make sure that OO.o will understand the URL. And she would possibly never have found this workaround on her own, because error messages are so obscure.
Virtual filesystems are great when they expose remote stuff or when they simplify APIs. But when they start obscuring the real (and working) filesystem from both the user _and_ applications, they simply become imaginary hindrances in the way of everything.
And if the UNIX filesystem hierarchy is bad, then by all means improve the standard, don't replace it with proprietary URLs.
By Gato at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
Well the bottom line is that KDE isn't the level to handle such problems. Its a problem for likes of Kubuntu to solve.
By Ian Monroe at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
So KDE should put in these ioslaves, and then each distro should patch them out again?
By Leo S at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
media:/ works fine here in kubuntu edgy with konq and opening a file to kaffeine, kmplayer, or amarok. It's really the only way to easily access unmounted media since nothing would be in /media till it was mounted and nothing is automounted unless you tell it to be. You also have to add some entries to your pmount.allow so the non-removable media shows up.
By firephoto at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> media:/ works fine here in kubuntu edgy with konq and opening
It's not media:/ that's working fine, it's kaffeine, kmplayer and amarok that are working fine again after having found ways to mediate between media:/ and their backends (instead of achieving real progress they needed to fix this). And if media:/ is working fine for you, then try to trash a file from system:/.
> It's really the only way to easily access unmounted media
It's really not the only way, you can tell kdesktop to show icons for unmounted media.
> since nothing would be in /media till it was mounted
Oh yes there would be something, the mountpoints, and konqueror/the file dialog could be smart and give them special treatment, such as device icons and a 'mount' action. Just like media:/, but without the proprietary URLs.
By Gato at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> Oh yes there would be something, the mountpoints, and konqueror/the file
Edgy includes patches to add the extra options to the mountpoints in /media, BTW.
By Simon Edwards at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
Great. That's really a wise move from Kubuntu.
By Gato at Fri, 2006/10/27 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
Um, no. They shouldn't.
By Ian Monroe at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
Well, then how do you propose they "fix" it? Kubuntu has done it by replacing media:/ with /media. Is there a better way?
By Leo S at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
The ways to fix them is:
Treating media://, system:// or home:// as local directories is not that big deal, most KDE applications should be easily fixable. Non-KDE applications are a different issue though and not easily solvable. Just think about fish:// protocol, as it is not known by OpenOffice.org, you cannot simply edit the file on the remote place (I think the KIO system it will download to a temporary directory though, but I didn't check it).
By Andras Mantia at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
You are missing the point, or points actually. Fixing the problems those IO-slaves create is not the problem, the problem is that they create those kinds of bugs in the first place for no gain whatsoever. They where supposed to bring some kind of usability improvment, which clearly they don't.
Nobody can argue that media://cdrom or system:/media/cdrom gives any kind of increased usability, compared to /media/cdrom or /mnt/cdrom. It's even worse with home:// since it points to /home rather than the users home, so instead of ~/myfile you have to use home://username/myfile.
The only things those IOslaves give are a possibility for subtle bugs, and breaking compability with legacy applications. They should be removed from svn as fast as possible, and never talked about again other than as examples of horrible usability mistakes.
The other IOslaves, like fish:// as you mentioned, does not have any of this problems. They are quite different in the way they provide extra functionality, not redefining already existing ones. Since OpenOffice is not able to edit remote files anyway, fish:// does not change anything or introduce a bug. While home://username/myfile.odt does, since its actually ~/myfile.odt a simple local file witch should be editable.
By Morty at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
Full ACK
I'm a huge fan of KDE's ioslaves except for media:/ which is driving me insane. Autodetection of removable devices is great and necessary, but the path which is given to applications should be /media. Everything else is simply broken.
By anonymous coward at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> Nobody can argue that media://cdrom or system:/media/cdrom gives any kind of increased usability, compared to /media/cdrom or /mnt/cdrom.
It's way too Linux-specific. I'm used to /vol/local/dvdX for local and /vol/pool/dvdrX for drives at the server. media://dvd is much more simplier and just works, no matter which station you log on. Ok, maybe non-KDE apps have probs with this, but they can't handle fish:// as well.
> It's even worse with home:// since it points to /home
Yep, as that's what it is supposed to do. For your own home theres ~. But after you typed /users/bkoffice/8/bentruth a dozend times you'll start loving home://bentruth.
And no, I'm not running KDE as root, just Kate via sudo.
By Andreas Jensen at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> It's way too Linux-specific.
As someone else already reminded, being the same on all platforms is not always good. Java has swing which looks the same on all platforms. Some developers love this, but the rest of the people either don't know about other platforms, or they're at no advantage anyway. They only notice that it doesn't look as it should on their platform. This is why SWT was introduced, and this why I don't know of any successful Swing app.
So really, what's the point that I could (mis-)use the same non-standard URL on other operating systems? My problem is that it's non-standard on my system.
BTW, I'm a FreeBSD user, not a Linux user, and I too have /media and /home.
> I'm used to /vol/local/dvdX for local and /vol/pool/dvdrX
You represent a very small minority that uses many machines with many different operating systems with servers that do removable media on a regular basis (most servers really don't). This is unlikely KDE's main target, and thus it's not a reason to invent imaginary filesystems.
> media://dvd is much more simplier and just works,
That's easy, just create a "/dvd" symlink on all machines. You can even automate the process provided you can detect the OS from a shell script.
> Ok, maybe non-KDE apps have probs with this,
Not just non-KDE, but KDE apps too, unless someone patches them to make them work. And maintains the patch, instead of doing cool stuff, and writes some more patches for the new monsters - you don't assume media:/, home:/ and system:/ will be the last of them, do you? Just wait for doc:/info that will point to /usr/share/info and system:/doc/info etc etc. (Don't worry, just kidding)
As for fish:/, fish is different because it introduces new functionality. Without the fish KIOslave there would be no fish at all ;-). But /media would be there anyway, so no need to replace it with something that doesn't work.
> But after you typed /users/bkoffice/8/bentruth a dozend times
Again, symlinks are your friends:
ln -s /users/bkoffice/8 /home
Besides, the file dialog has autocompletion so it's not that bad anyway. And inventing proprietary URLs just for the sake of shorthand is silly.
By Gato at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
I am totally baffled at why you assume that every KDE system on earth should have /media or that the user will even be allowed to create it.
What KDE is and was for a long time already, or so I believe, is a desktop for a wide array of systems. One of its strengths being that the KDE framework solves the problems for the applications just fine.
My understanding is that media:// should work fine for every KDE application and that's OK. Where it does not, it's probably worth to note, that these apps have attempted to improve over the framework, so there is a need, point proven.
Stop telling KDE it should not provide its own ways of doing things. We actually like innovation around here.
By Debian User at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
>> I am totally baffled at why you assume that every KDE system on earth should have /media or that the user will even be allowed to create it.
The user doesn't create it. That's up to the distribution/system.
By Leo S at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> I am totally baffled at why you assume that every KDE
I don't assume that at all, I only assume that the fact that I have non-standard KDE URL (media:/) that just happens to be the same on other operating systems (that I don't use) is of no use to me.
(And I'm not just egoistically thinking about me, when I say "no use to me" it's just a way of speaking.)
By Gato at Mon, 2006/10/30 - 6:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> Stop telling KDE it should not provide its own ways of doing things.
By all means I'm not trying to tell KDE not to do. I'm not the one to do that, and besides I too like innovation. I'd like a KDE way of doing things, such as making hardware access 'just work', transparently to the user.
But media:/ and system:/ and home:/ are not new ways of doing things, they are just new ways of calling things. Same old things, new names, new misunderstandings, new breakage. Worst of all, new filesystems to learn. Real innovation would be getting rid of all filesystems in the user interface, not adding new ones on top of old ones.
By Gato at Mon, 2006/10/30 - 6:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> That's easy, just create a "/dvd" symlink on all machines. You can even automate the process provided you can detect the OS from a shell script.
Detecting the OS is not the issue - always the same. But "all machines" is wrong. There are only a few servers, 20 at the moment, but more than 300 Workstations. X session runs on the server, but drives are workstation-local. Good luck with symlinks... ;-) (kdm runs locally, reowns the drive to the user logged in and ncs a script on the server which automounts, kinda nasty but works)
> Not just non-KDE, but KDE apps too, unless someone patches them to make them work.
If they use the kio api, all kioslave should work or it's a bug to be squashed. I've never had probs with media:/ fish:// sftp:// or camera:/ (at home). system:/ or settings:/ are rarely used, ok, but they still work. audiocd:/ does, too.
> Again, symlinks are your friends:
Bad luck. You'd have to link /users to /home (not everyone is in backoffice), but it wouldn't help. Not everyone has their homes in /users, but in /u (I'm there) or the Linux-like /home (for some local only logins).
> And inventing proprietary URLs just for the sake of shorthand is silly.
They are not proprietary, they're well documented and free to use (or ignored).
By Andreas Jensen at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> They are not proprietary, they're well documented and
There are at least two ways of speaking about proprietary. In one way you're right. But there's the other way: a method of software interaction can be called proprietary when it's free and open, but it's not an agreed upon standard and it requires special efforts from the part of other people in order to work.
This means that even if you give other people the tools to unbreak the compatibility that you have just broken, your URL language is still proprietary until it becomes an agreed upon standard.
By Gato at Mon, 2006/10/30 - 6:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
You write...:
If you'll allow using ~ for your own home, then how is home://bentruth any better than ~bentruth?
By AC at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
> The ways to fix them is: report as bugs
Sorry but people only report bug when they are worth fixing. Fixing the bugs introduced by the imaginary filesystems is just absurd. It would only mean piling hacks on top of hacks on top of hacks. And all you'd get is fixing other hacks (the proprietary URLs themselves). Just to get back functionality that has always been there to begin with.
The real way is not to cure the symptoms, it's to cure the disease. To eliminate the cause.
By Gato at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
There is no need for hacks over hacks, only right way of using the KDE API and creating the correct desktop files. But whatever, I tested media:/, system:/ and home:/ URLs with KDE and non-KDE applications mentioned here. Well, amarok, kaffeine, konsole, xine and openoffice has no problems. For those who doesn't understand the URL is translated to the real path. Eg. open a file in oowriter from home:/user and when you try to save it, you will see in the file dialog: "/home/user" as the current directory. I'd say they work unless you give a non-working example. And I'd say this proves that if they don't work, it's nothing else, but a bug.
By Andras Mantia at Sat, 2006/10/28 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
The reason why some apps don't have problems any longer is that they've been hacked to either translate URLs or copy files to temporary locations etc. And these hacks need to be maintained, and new hacks will need to be written in order to accomodate new needs.
All of this just for the sake of having the same URL on all distros. And the distros already use the same URL, '/media'! Unless they're not FHS compliant (very old Linux? IRIX?).
And even if they did use different locations for mount-points (which they don't), what would be more important:
a. having URLs that can be understood by all apps on _your_ system, or
By Gato at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
Have you ever used the KDE API to write applications? If you stick to KURL everywhere you will have hard time to break media:/ or system:/ or whatever. It just works. And if you don't use KURL e.g because you have to pass the files to a non-KDE application (like xine) just use "Exec=appname %f" in you appname.desktop file instead of "Exec=appname %U" and KDE will download the file to a temporary location before passing to the application.
By Andras Mantia at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
The problem is that KURL does not really help you in most of the bugs caused by this, the remote IO-slaves have never been a problem. The problem are the unnecessary local ones like media:/. They have created bugs for every application that have the need for treating local files different then remote files. Lots of applications like Kaffeine, k3b, codeine etc have special handling of cases when these URLs are used to to make them be seen as local files. And none of these applications had this before being notified by a bug report. So it simply does not just work.
And it's not about throwing something away because some apps have issues, it's about throwing something away that does not give any benefit over the systems existing solution. And in addition it introduces unnecessary problems and create issues for applications. IO-slaves are great, but they are not the solution to everything.
By Morty at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
There is only one specific things with media:/ and co. they are local even if they don't look so. The only case when an application has to do something special is when it is a KDE application, uses KURL, but doesn't support remote operation. Why? Because if its a KDE application and uses only KURL inside it simply shouldn't care if the KURL points to a remote or local file. If it's a KDE application, but works only with local paths and uses QStrings to store paths, it should specify that it cannot open remote URL's (uses filename %f in the .desktop file). In case of non-KDE applications, the situation is the same.
The hack you are looking for is "mostLocalURL". The function is there since KDE 3.5.0, released quite some time ago.
Another example is from amarok:
So if there was a bug, it was fixed in 3.5.3. Bugs can exists, this is why they should be reported so they can be fixed either in libraries or applications.
By Andras Mantia at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
For KMPlayer, the mostLocalURL isn't such a nice solution. All KParts targeted for KHTML should not use local loops. The problem is that JS setTimeout() or other redirect ways, may fire inside such a local loop, causing a page reload. This will most certainly crash konqueror.
By koos at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am
Re: Kioslave hell
I admit I never heard that you have to be so careful with KParts loaded inside KHTML, but in this case the problem is rather the hack used in NetAccess, than media:/ or mostLocalURL. This simply means you can never use KIO::NetAccess, right? I find this a particular case, wrong interaction between two applications, and in this case I admit a hack (or non-standard solution) is needed, like manually find out if it's a media:/ or whatever URL and translate yourself to the real path.
By Andras Mantia at Sun, 2006/10/29 - 5:00am


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As many savvy investors know by now, DoubleLine Capital has a story to tell: a creation myth that involves CEO Jeff Gundlach's stormy departure from the TCW Group, the lawsuit that followed and the dramatic turnaround of a company that blasted from zero to $53 billion of assets under management in just three years.
But as the stellar DBLTX and DLTNX Total Return Bond funds approach their three-year benchmark on April 6 and five new DoubleLine funds prepare for launch, what is less known is the story behind the 45 or so people who followed Gundlach when TCW fired him in December 2009.
Over truffle omelets in The Palace on Wednesday in midtown Manhattan, Gundlach loyalist Bonnie Baha talked about why she left TCW after a 20-year career there to follow the eccentric and highly successful bond king as he started up DoubleLine the Monday after his Friday firing, even though she received offers from other firms, including Standard & Poor's.
"If I had to place my money on somebody, I'd place it on Jeffrey," said Baha, who serves as a DoubleLine portfolio manager and co-director of global developed credit at the company's Los Angeles headquarters. "There is a 'revenge is sweet' factor, but there was a religious and spiritual element."
TCW Experience Was an 'Unplanned Pregnancy'
There was also an element of Baha's feeling as if she was experiencing "an unplanned pregnancy," when TCW rocked her world with its sudden announcement that it was replacing Gundlach with a fixed-income team from Metropolitan West. "I came in on Monday, and there were people we didn't know sitting at our desks."
Later, in 2010, Gundlach evoked those spiritual feelings after TCW sued, potential clients left in droves, and he came to his DoubleLine colleagues with tears in his eyes to promise that he took it as his personal responsibility to be sure they received a paycheck, recalled Baha, who also remembers that he was so stressed that he was losing weight and sleep as his loyal followers were paying their bills with credit cards and savings.
To be sure, Baha acknowledges that Gundlach's strong personality can be read as arrogant—something she herself did back in the 1990s when she was a vice president on the TCW trading floor and didn't like the way he was dressing down a colleague publicly. As Bloomberg reports it, Baha called Gundlach "a freaking jerk," but as Baha herself remembers it, she called him the much more blunt, "f*****g a*****e."
It was the start of a beautiful friendship. Later that day, Gundlach went to her office and spent two hours describing his hardscrabble upbringing in Buffalo, N.Y.
"It's not like we were buddy-buddy after that," Baha said. "He's not that kind of guy."
Baha's Spidey Sense
Yet they have built a relationship of mutual respect that now has him depending on Baha's market calls. For example, her "Spidey sense" (DoubleLine analyst Loren Fleckenstein's term for it) led her to suggest that Gundlach cut off DoubleLine's trade with Lehman Brothers and MF Global before those two firms blew up.
Today, DoubleLine's market capitalization is about $1 billion while another TCW offshoot, Howard Marks' Oaktree—which serves as a role model to the folks at DoubleLine—counts $7 billion in market cap.
Meanwhile, TCW, which effectively lost its suit against Gundlach in 2011, was sold to the Carlyle Group in August 2012. "The transaction will conclude a lengthy sales process for TCW, which has some $130 billion in assets," The New York Times' Dealbook reported at the time. "Société Générale, which bought a controlling stake in TCW in 2001 for about $880 million, has been under pressure to raise additional capital and has been exploring the divestiture of noncore assets."
As the dust settles on all the drama, DoubleLine's reputation for growth is becoming established.
Robert Cohen, a credit analyst who will manage DoubleLine's new floating rate fund with Baha when it launches later in 2013, joined the firm last summer after the TCW lawsuit was resolved. As far as Cohen was concerned, he was joining a company with a proven track record.
"I came in the glory days when DoubleLine was earning millions. I skipped all the drama," Cohen said at The Palace breakfast. "All I know is that DoubleLine is successful and people are tripping over themselves to talk to us."
Read What's Jeff Gundlach Thinking? From the October 2012 issue of Investment Advisor magazine at AdvisorOne.