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- Every client gets the personal cell phone number of his/her attorney and the lawyer's assistant
Not only does this provide you the assurance of knowing you can reach your lawyer at critical times. It also helps us to do our job more effectively.
We find that close client interaction is pivotal to our work. Our clients are the best resource for understanding what happened and who the key players are in the case. We want to hear from you. And you will definitely be hearing from us as together we map out the story and put together the best defense possible.
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Sometimes it is possible to stop criminal charges from ever being filed.
After making an arrest or investigating a suspected crime, the police take their evidence to the district attorney. The D.A. evaluates the potential case and decides what criminal charges (if any) to file. Usually, the prosecutor makes this decision based solely on what the police present. But often there is much more to the story.
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Perhaps you already have a California criminal defense lawyer. Your case has been pending for awhile. Your attorney advises you on a certain case strategy, such as accepting the D.A.'s offer or taking the case to trial. Now you face a major life decision. And you are just not sure what to do.
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If your loved one is custody, our California criminal defense attorneys can often arrange a "bail hearing" to get bail reduced or to secure an "OR release." We assist inmates in custody at any of the state's jails, including the Twin Towers Jail, the Los Angeles Men's Central Jail, the Orange County Central Jail, the Ventura County Jail, the West Valley Detention Center, the Robert Presley Riverside County Jail and the Clark County Detention Center (Las Vegas Jail).
Types of Cases We Handle.
California DUI Defense Lawyers
Our California DUI defense attorneys are former DUI prosecutors and law enforcement officers with decades of experience both prosecuting and defending cases brought under California DUI laws.
As a former Deputy D.A., Los Angeles DUI lawyer Neil Shouse worked closely with the CHP and police toxicologists, compiling evidence, and presenting cases in court. Now he fights DUI charges. Among the drunk driving cases we handle are 1st DUI in California, DUID, Vehicle Code 23152(a), underage DUI, DUI causing injury, hit and run, 23103 VC reckless driving reckless driving and gross vehicular manslaughter.
California Violent Crime Charges
Prosecutors and judges take violent crimes the most seriously. California's mandatory sentencing laws can lead to harsh prison sentences.
But many people accused of violent offenses are truly innocent. Often the situation is justified by California self-defense laws, accident, misidentification, false accusations, or mental illness. Our Los Angeles criminal attorneys can help you explore these defenses and fight the charges. We also defend clients prosecuted under California's Three Strikes Law and California's gang enhancement.
Among the violent crime charges we defend against are:
- Penal Code 148 PC - Resisting Arrest
- Penal Code 187 - Murder
- Penal Code 207 - Kidnapping
- Penal Code 211 - Robbery
- Penal Code 215 - Carjacking
- Penal Code 245 - Assault
- Penal Code 422 PC Criminal Threats
- Penal Code 451 - Arson
California Sex Crimes Defense Lawyers
A conviction for a criminal sex offense can lead to years in California State Prison, getting ostracized from the community, and having to register for life as a sex offender. But many innocent people get falsely accused of sex crimes, especially date rape, lewd acts with a child, and sexual assault.
Our California criminal defense lawyers start by scrutinizing the accuser's background. We look to see if the accuser has a history of telling lies and a bias against our client. We independently investigate the case with our own private detectives and forensic experts. Often times we can get charges reduced or dismissed or secure an acquittal at trial.
We defend against all sex crimes charges, including
- Penal Code 243.4 - Sexual Battery
- Penal Code 261 PC - Rape (Sexual Assault)
- Penal Code 261.5 PC - Statutory Rape
- Penal Code 288 PC - Lewd Acts with a Child
- Penal Code 290 Failure to Register as a Sex Offender
- Penal Code 311 PC - Child Pornography
- Penal Code 314 Indecent Exposure
- Penal Code 647(a) Lewd Conduct in Public
- Penal Code 647(b) PC - Prostitution Solicitation
California Financial Crime Charges
Most people accused of theft or financial crimes are good citizens with minimal records who simply took a wayward path. And some are factually innocent. In any case, our California criminal defense attorneys can help you fight the charges, often times keeping the stigma of a criminal conviction off your record.
We represent clients as to all financial and property crimes, such as
- Penal Code 459 PC - Burglary
- Penal Code 487 PC - Grand Theft
- Penal Code 484 PC - Petty Theft
- Penal Code 496 PC - Receiving Stolen Property
- Penal Code 503 Embezzlement
- Penal Code 530.5 PC - Identity Theft
California Domestic Violence Attorneys
More people get wrongfully accused of domestic violence than any other type of crime. Sometimes a person strikes his wife or girlfriend by accident or in self-defense during a mutual struggle.
Other times the accuser lies to the police and makes up false allegations of abuse. Accusers fabricate stories out of anger or jealousy or to gain the upper hand in divorce or child custody proceedings. Whatever the case, our Los Angeles criminal attorneys can help you fight back.
We defend clients against any accusations of domestic violence, spousal battery, or spousal abuse, in particular
- Penal Code 243e1 PC - Domestic Battery
- Penal Code 273a Child Endangerment
- Penal Code 646.9 PC - Stalking
- Penal Code 273d PC - Child Abuse
- Penal Code 273.5 PC - Corporal Injury to a Spouse or Cohabitant
- Penal Code 236 PC - False Imprisonment
California Drug Crimes Attorneys
Police frequently use unreliable informants, defective warrants, and other illegal methods to make drug busts. Our California criminal lawyers can challenge these unconstitutional searches and search warrants, in an effort to get evidence and cases thrown out of court.
For clients struggling with addiction problems, we can often help you get Proposition 36, PC 1000 pretrial diversion, drug court or other treatment programs as an alternative to jail.
We represent clients in all misdemeanor or felony narcotics charges, including
- Health & Safety Code 11350 HS Possession of a Controlled Substance
- Health & Safety Code 11351 HS Possession for Sales
- Health & Safety Code 11352 HS Sales or Transportation of a Controlled Substance
- Health & Safety Code 11377 HS Possession of Methamphetamine.
Contact us for help
We like to start every case the same way: By listening. We sit down with you (and your witnesses) to hear exactly what happened. The police and the accusers are going to have their story. We will be presenting yours. So we want to start by hearing and understanding your side of it. Call us at (855)-JUSTICE or email us to schedule a consultation to see if we are the right California criminal defense lawyers for you.
We have local criminal law offices in Burbank, Glendale, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Newport Beach, Palm Springs, Pasadena, Pomona, Rancho Cucamonga, Riverside, San Diego, San Francisco, Santa Ana, Torrance, Van Nuys, Ventura, and West Covina. Read our criminal defense blog.
Please contact our Las Vegas Nevada criminal defense attorneys and Las Vegas DUI lawyers for cases anywhere in Nevada. Our Denver Colorado criminal defense lawyers defend clients throughout Colorado. Our California personal injury attorneys and car accident lawyers can assist with any type of injury or mass tort case, including a hernia mesh lawsuit a Zantac lawsuit or a Truvada lawsuit.
Shouse Law Group is accredited by the Better Business Bureau with an A+ rating.
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Many groups and publications offer help in finding the best place to spend those retirement years. Obviously, everyone has an idea of what makes for paradise, but there are criteria that can help with the decision.
Two years ago, we looked at the Top 7 Cheap, Easy Foreign Cities to Retire as enumerated by International Living magazine. This year, we are revisiting the idea of foreign locales, this time by country.
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Real Estate: 87
Special Benefits: 72
Cost of Living: 81
Integration: 100
Entertainment & Amenities: 68
Health: 82
Retirement Infrastructure: 77
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Boasting a climate typical of the Mediterranean, the 415,000 residents of the Maltese islands enjoy warm winters and hot, dry summers. Malta became independent in 1974, ending nearly two centuries of British rule. The nation joined the European Union in 2004. The economy is driven by tourism, industry and services.
Real Estate: 82
Special Benefits: 57
Cost of Living: 97
Integration: 87
Entertainment & Amenities: 96
Health: 81
Retirement Infrastructure: 77
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Equal in size to Spain, Thailand is the only nation in Southeast Asia not to be colonized by the European colonial powers. Its 65 million citizens live by constitutional monarchy. Temperatures range from 66 to 100 degrees, and the year can be divided into two seasons: hot and cool. Exports account for 60% of the country's GDP.
Real Estate: 87
Special Benefits: 57
Cost of Living: 80
Integration: 83
Entertainment & Amenities: 96
Health: 80
Retirement Infrastructure: 93
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Real Estate: 94
Special Benefits: 75
Cost of Living: 70
Integration: 90
Entertainment & Amenities: 82
Health: 84
Retirement Infrastructure: 83
Climate: 86
One thing Colombia has in common with the U.S. is that it has coasts on both the Pacific and the Atlantic, the only South American nation that can claim that distinction. Situated near the equator, Colombia has five climate zones inluding steppes, tropical rain forests, savannahs and mountain climate. The country lives under republican rule.
Real Estate: 87
Special Benefits: 72
Cost of Living: 69
Integration: 83
Entertainment & Amenities: 94
Health: 91
Retirement Infrastructure: 82
Climate: 86
Located on the east coast of South America, Uruguay is the size of Oklahoma. The country has 120 miles of Atlantic coastline, low plateau and a rolling plain. The constitutional republic has 3.3 million residents and variable weather with cool winters and warm to hot summers depending on location.
Real Estate: 89
Special Benefits: 85
Cost of Living: 87
Integration: 90
Entertainment & Amenities: 94
Health: 86
Retirement Infrastructure: 73
Climate: 71
With a population of 4.6 million in an area slightly bigger than the combined area of New Hampshire and Vermont combined, Costa Rica includes a coast on the Pacific Ocean with good surfing and a coast on the Caribbean Sea with a rain forest. The democratic republic has a rainy season that runs from May to November, which consists of sunny morning and rainy afternoons. Trade winds in January and February make for cooler days.
Real Estate: 92
Special Benefits: 71
Cost of Living: 82
Integration: 100
Entertainment & Amenities: 100
Health: 84
Retirement Infrastructure: 74
Climate: 78
With a population of 112 million, the United States' large neighbor to the south (it's one-fifth as big) offers beaches, big-city life and mountains. And, except on the peaks, you won't have to worry about dealing with snow.
Real Estate: 89
Special Benefits: 77
Cost of Living: 92
Integration: 90
Entertainment & Amenities: 100
Health: 93
Retirement Infrastructure: 85
Climate: 75
Slightly bigger than New Mexico, Malaysia sits on the Malay peninsula and is home to 26 million people. The nation is heavily forested and a mountain range runs its entire length. Ruled by constitutional monarchy, the citizens enjoy year-round temperatures in the mid-80s during the day and upper 60s at night.
Real Estate: 83
Special Benefits: 100
Cost of Living: 86
Integration: 93
Entertainment & Amenities: 95
Health: 85
Retirement Infrastructure: 81
Climate: 88
About 3.5 million people call Panama home. The country, about the size of South Carolina, is ruled by constitutional democracy and boasts its namesake canal, the passageway between the Carribbean Sea and the Pacific Ocean. The weather varies by region, but the humidity and temperature are often lower than in Florida. Be aware, the Panamanian winter and summer seasons are reversed from their U.S. counterparts.
Real Estate: 99
Special Benefits: 99
Cost of Living: 90
Integration: 90
Entertainment & Amenities: 95
Health: 83
Retirement Infrastructure: 79
Climate: 100
On the Pacific coast of northwest South America, Ecuador is home to 15.2 million people in an area about the size of Nevada. The Andes, with tall volcanic peaks, cross the nation in two ranges. The Galapagos Islands have been a part of Ecuador since 1832. Being directly on the equator means the country has 12 hours of daylight every day of the year. However, temperature can range from temperate at the beaches to cold in the mountains.
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The Road to KDE 4: Amarok 2 Development is Underway
This week we'll take a brief look at some of the many features that are making their way into Amarok 2, which is the development branch for Amarok in KDE 4. The features discussed are all in-progress features which have reached varying stages of completion. Read on for information about Amarok's engines (including Phonon), UI changes, changes to the Magnatune music store, OS X support, and more.
A few weeks ago, The Road to KDE 4 featured an article on Phonon. When that article was published, work on Amarok 2 had not yet started, but the Phonon developers were keeping Amarok very much in mind as they designed the Phonon libraries.
You see, in Amarok 1.x, the developers had to maintain separate playback engines for xine, gstreamer, aKode, etc. This was somewhat of a hassle to keep all of these engines up to date, and in some cases, they were very much a moving target, forcing them to focus on only a single engine, xine. And other programs, like Noatun had to re-implement these backends so there was much duplication of efforts. For KDE 4, the Phonon interface is designed so that programs like Amarok don't have to worry so much about the backends anymore and can concentrate on the other parts of the application. According to the Amarok developers, implementing a Phonon backend took all of 90 minutes before it was usable, and a few extra hours before it was fully implemented. When using Phonon, applications can playfiles over network protocols thanks to KIO, so we'll see what happens as the Amarok team explores this feature in more detail.
So Phonon is now working in Amarok 2. The old engines were also ported over, and in particular, the old xine engine is still being actively developed and they haven't decided to drop their old engines. Since Amarok 2 has only been in development for a few weeks, it is too early to decide to drop their existing engines such as xine, which has served Amarok very well in the past.
One of the side effects of using Phonon is that Amarok can access the video playback functions of the underlying engines where they exist, such as in the phonon-xine engine. They have added rudimentary support for video playback in Amarok, but it's designed to complement audio playback, rather than supplant more involved video players like Kaffeine. The idea is that if you have a music video in your collection, and want to use Amarok to play music from that video, then the video stream would be considered as a Visualization for that music. Having video support will in no way hinder your Amarok audio experience in version 2. According to Dan Meltzer, adding initial video support was a whole seven lines of code using Phonon.
Of course, thanks to KDE 4's newfound portability, Amarok is able to run on other platforms, not just Unix/X11. The development version has already made its first appearance on OS X thanks to the work of Benjamin Reed. Porting to Windows as well is underway, although I don't have a screenshot of that progress.
I personally think that having Amarok on these platforms will single-handedly do more for awareness of KDE as a multi-OS development platform than any other application that currently exists for KDE, since the program is head and shoulders above so many other media players out there.
But they wouldn't have a good reason to call it 2.0 unless there were some really big changes happening, and there are.
Amarok is in many ways inspired by XMMS, which in turn bears a lot of resemblance to Winamp. Basically, it's a music player with a multi-column playlist that displays information from tags contained within the media files. Now, these multi-column playlists have not really changed much over the last decade, except that different applications have added interesting ways to sort, filter, and edit tags. Amarok is particularly good at sorting and filtering, and half decent at tag editing (see JuK as an example of a player with an amazing tag editor). But none of these functions really require Amarok to present its playlist in a rigid column format, except for traditional reasons. So as part of the UI reworking for Amarok 2, the playlist is seeing a rebirth of sorts. While it still lists Tracks, Titles, and other tags, it will no longer be constrained by the old fashioned playlist column format.
This requires a picture to properly describe, so here is a mockup showing the concept in action.
You may first wonder "Where is the playlist?" as I and a few of my peers on IRC initially wondered, but if you look closely, the list on the right is actually the playlist, only it's broken free from its old format. So now, when your file is missing some tags, the playlist will simply adjust around those missing tags, smartly displaying what information it does have.
Also featured prominently in this screenshot is the middle pane. This pane is the focus of Amarok 2, as they try to give you more information about your current track, and allowing you to "Rediscover Your Music" as their motto goes. The leftmost column will function much as it used to, except with the "Context" information moved to the centre. Of course, as is KDE tradition, much of this will be configurable.
Here is a shot of Amarok 1.4.5 showing its current layout for comparison as well as a shot of the development branch of Amarok showing off some of the progress they've made in moving user interface elements around. The mockup above is the targeted UI they wish to achieve, but there will be bumps and changes along the way as they find what does and does not work well.
And now another screen the Amarok 2.0 development version, this time on Linux. Keep in mind that Amarok 2 has only been in development for a single month, and work is still ongoing.
One of the most promising of Amarok's features is Magnatune store integration. According to Wikipedia: Magnatune is an independent record label which aims at treating both its musicians and its customers fairly. Users can stream and download music in MP3 format without charge before making a decision whether tobuy or not. Music files sold by Magnatune do not use any form of Digital Rights Management to prevent customers from making copies of music files they have purchased; and actually encourage buyers to share up to three copies with friends.
Amarok debuted with Magnatune support (for both audio streaming and purchase) in version 1.4.4. Since then, the team has received many emails from other stores interested in being added to Amarok as well. But in Amarok 1.4, the developers have been busy polishing up Magnatune support and had no manpower to start bigger tasks. With Amarok 1.4.5, the second version of the Magnatune store was released and developers are really pleased with that version. It works well, and generates a small but growing number of sales for Magnatune.
So it is time to move on. Nikolaj Hald Nielsen, the main developer of Magnatune store, is planning to move things up a higher level by providing a service framework for all streaming music sources. This service framework could, and is in part intended to, be used as a starting point for adding other stores, and will provide a large amount of basic functionality with regards to adding previews to the playlist, displaying data about selected items, and similar "read only" functionality. As a prof of concept, a service that can be controlled using scripts have been implemented on top of this framework. Currently there is no intent to make a framework for the more store specific functionality (purchasing, parsing of info from websites), simply because each store has their own unique way of handling these things. Nevertheless, it's a great step forward for unified streamed music support in Amarok, and in fact, the CoolStreams service has been already ported to this new framework (as a rubyscript), and a Shoutcast browser is coming along.
Now, with the Magnatune store well received and with the possibility of using the service framework, it might be time to contact some of these interested music stores again.
Here is a screenshot showing the experimental "Cool Streams" ruby script running on top of the scriptable service:
If you'd like to get involved in the Amarok 2 development process, you will need to set up a KDE 4 development environment. There are instructions for using SVN available at the KDE TechBase website, or use the kdesvn-build program to automate the whole thing. The Amarok developers accept patches, and will hook you up with SVN access if you require it. They also need help from artists, testers, and people to offer user support via the #amarok IRC channel on the freenode network.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Amarok 2 is progressing very rapidly. To quote Mark Kretschmann, Amarok's lead developer: "If development continues at this pace, we'll be done with Amarok 3 by the time KDE 4 is out ;)" Be prepared for something awesome, as you've come to expect from the Amarok team.
To stay up to date with Amarok news, check out the Amarok Newsletter published by Ljubomir Simin. Special thanks for his contributions to this article. It's my first experience co-authoring, and it went very smoothly. :)
New GUI sucks
Isn't just ugly, It's unusable.
By Luis at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI sucks
The gui doesn't look right because it resembles itunes so well. Amarok was never such a clone. I really like the big playlist search field that the current amarok has..
By viseztrance at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI sucks
Mockups looks ugly. Don't make clone of something. Amarok now looks different, so why do you want to change it. Try to improve it.
By No at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI is much better than the old one!
My opinion: the mockup is much much better than the older gui in 1.4.x. It is more tidy and more presentable. It only shows what you want to see when a playlist is active and playing. All those other features to manipulate, sort and so on are hidden in the background. It's simply beautiful!
The problem with my beloved KDE is that many applications are overloaded with controls and such. Keep it more simple and think about what the user normally wants to see on the screen! Enhanced editing and manipulation features can be hidden in the background. Think about it like "tidyness like gnome" but "feature-rich and configurable like KDE!" (so far for a brief excursion to KDE in general)
I am lookking forward to Amarok 2 and I hope it will look like the mockup that is presented in this article. Thanks for the amarok-team!
By Bert Speckels at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI is much better than the old one!
I second that!
The old GUI is soon @ the graveyard!
By David at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI is much better than the old one!
Just my opinion.
The sidebar is annoying when looking at your playlist, and too small when seeking some information.
It should be the other way round, and this mockup seems to fulfill this.
By Mo at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI sucks
Imagine seeing a construction wharf around a building, and people start screaming "is that going to stay there? That sucks and besides the building looks ugly". (hope construction wharf is the correct English translation).
Please understand a *mockup* is not a definitive version. It's a way for developers to show the new abilities of the program. The next step is polishing it so users also love it. So take part of this enthusiasm, don't demolish it (e.g. not providing good arguments) because people loose their motivation this way.
By Diederik van de... at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI sucks
I think the UK-english word you want is scaffolding.
By ben at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI sucks
Thanks, judging from Wikipedia and Google images it's exactly what I ment :)
By Diederik van de... at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
You are a moron...
And I really hate to flame...
"Also featured prominently in this screenshot is the middle pane. This pane is the focus of Amarok 2, as they try to give you more information about your current track, and allowing you to "Rediscover Your Music" as their motto goes. The leftmost column will function much as it used to, except with the "Context" information moved to the centre. Of course, as is KDE tradition, much of this will be configurable."
Read... Please...
By Gene at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: You are a moron...
So many whiners.
The instinct behind the change is right - just too many darn columns. Yes, you can configure them, but I often run out of horizontal space, and then I discover one I hadn't used before, like "last played", ... No Room!
The challenge will be to keep good abilities to sort playlists and do tag editing, particularly bulk-retagging.
But I would be very surprised if the Amarok developers forgot that.
p.s. i used to use juk but initially came to amarok for reasons of stability, and stayed for the excellent features.
By JT at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI sucks
Well... As long as we can choose I don't mind having multiple options. But honestly, iTunes UI is very good, so it would pretty stupid to exclude it just because "Amarok is not a clone". Getting the best from other projects is not cloning, is non reinventing the wheel!
By Rico at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: I love it
Personally, I love the mock up. At the first look, it looks clean and simple and at the second look you discover all the useful features. It is not overloaded. Things must change and this is a good way.
lokking foreward to KDE 4.0
great work!!!
By jagga at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI sucks
Yes, it sucks, I agree. :(
But, listen, may be that's a global phenomena? I mean, look at the car design of today - the shapes are made so streamline, that they have become dull and ugly: huge fenders, sharp edges, really huuuge lights (both front and rear), etc. I, for example, don't want to have all the objects around me looking like a dzen garden. I like eye candy and ... well, I can't explain it. But for me "new" does not always mean "better". ;)
By Gruffy at Wed, 2007/03/14 - 5:00am
Re: New GUI sucks
i think its great. You are free to prefer the old guy.
By benk at Wed, 2007/03/14 - 5:00am
No no no. This mockup looks bad! Really bad.
By No at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
It is the current GUI, but improved. The mockup looks nothing like, and is nothing like iTunes or WMP, so I spose your amazingly irrational response only serves to make you look foolish because fortunately you are wrong.
By mxcl at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: lol?
Those two look alike?!?!?
I'd pick the amarok mockup over anything, anytime. It's wonderfull, and imho the way to go for amarok 2.0!
By superstoned at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
It Is the Current GUI Improved
I believe it is the natural progression of the old/current GUI.
WinAmp, WMP, iTunes and Amarok each have a very unique look about them. The problem is that content is buried in the current GUI.
The new GUI better frames the content.
I may get flamed for this, but honestly I've always loved WMP9/10. WMP11 makes for a pretty screenshot, but kills usability.
The layout for "Now Playing" is incredibly different from moving through your library and building your playlist.
I think the solution is to follow this approach.
When building/managing your playlist, something closer to the old GUI is better suited, because that is where the focus is.
As media is playing, the current GUI still gives you full control over navigation, while placing the central focus on the content that is actually playing.
Amarok 2.0 looks to be the sexiest media player on the planet.
Keep up the good work!
By T. J, Brumfield at Wed, 2007/03/14 - 5:00am
Amarok 2
Well, I think the new UI looks very nice. And since I have used Magnatune long before I discovered Amarok that is one feature I really like. The new version looks very interesting.
By Bill Leeper at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Old fashion look
I really like the old fashion look Amarok 1.4.5 presents. It's very usable with playlist on the right side with headers under columns displying relevant information. I can simply find tracks sorting them by size, lenght, bitrate and especially type and directory. It's gaining power from it's simplicity, that's why people like Winamp UI, they don't have to think too much to find how to use GUI. To much sophistiated interface could overwhelm new users coming from Windows and MacOS camp. For the time being my female cousin Paula really like Amarok and she is not techncian. So, don't make another app for nerds and geeks, when you must go with learning curve to just play few songs.
By Konrad at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: Old fashion look
I'm surprised, that you call the old playlist simple, and the new one sophisticated.
And the new playlist looks much cleaner and simpler. The "old" one is very "technical". And although I'm a technician, I like amarok mostly for the reason it hides most of the technique. This helps me to focus on the music, thus "rediscover my music" :-)
It's strange to see so many people crying because of the new interface. I think it's mostly an automatic reflex, caused by the fear of changes.
By birdy at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: Old fashion look
Both comments are true :
- It was unpleasant to switch between "collection" and "context" panels. I am pleased it was noticed, and it is being addressed in next version.
Now is there really no way to keep collection, context and playlist visible in the same time?? I definitely think there is, and the current mockup is not addressing this.
By David at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: Old fashion look
The old playlist is simple. You have a database in a familiar and easily-parsed format with metadata in columns that can be arranged at the user's pleasure in any manner desired. If you want ANY particular piece of that metadata instantly, you begin typing and it narrows itself down to what you want automatically. No questions asked- it just works. Queue up what you were looking for and go about your merry way; it will go back to your playlist or random play when it's done.
Rediscovering my music doesn't necessitate knowing who made it and what the album art was- I know who the artists and composers of most of the pieces in my collection are already, and can look at the appropriate column if I've forgotten. This new interface seems to keep me from my arbitrary metadata in a most unpleasant way and makes-more-prominent information I could easily find by looking in wikipedia, either in Amarok itself or in a browser, in the event that I was curious (for the artists that actually have articles- quite a few don't in my case)
I understand that it will be configurable, but I truly don't understand the rationale of this design decision and feel that it can only harm one of the shining stars of the open-source community. Amarok has been almost unique in it's ability to allow me to manage a playlist of 4-5000 items as easily as one with 20-40 with only the metadata already in my files. The last player that did that effectively was dBpowerAMP on Windows (though I have functionality issues with it, after having used Amarok).
I think could actually go on at greater length about my issues with what I've seen so far, but if what I say here sees favourable response it may be a point to take up with the developers directly.
By Wyatt at Wed, 2007/03/14 - 5:00am
Re: Old fashion look
Agreed. What they're essentially doing is putting the spotlight on the context browser, instead of the actual music that's being played.
While the context browser is a nice feature, I have quite a lot of obscure music and often what's displayed in that bar to the left is no more than what's written in the playlist anyway.
I use Amarok to listen to music, not check out album art, artist details, and so on - that's what Wikipedia's for. Keep the focus on the music please, not its metadata.
By Tom at Wed, 2007/03/14 - 5:00am
I greatly disagree.
The new look is cleaner. You still have navigation where you naturally expect it to be, on the sides. The center is best suited to focus on what you have selected/playing.
WMP took a huge step backwards in usability simply to look better at a glance, or in a screenshot with WMP11.
I think anyone migrating from WMP11 to Amarok 2 will find it much easier and more intuitive. As they also learn that it is more powerful, they will only fall in love that much more.
By T. J, Brumfield at Wed, 2007/03/14 - 5:00am
Re: Old fashion look
Columns are useful, as you say. for sorting by certain criteria. People know about clicking on column headers to sort from file managers. There is no reason to ditch them.
Not that I care what Amarok does with columns: I'll never be able to use it due to the cluttered GUI from hell (this from someone who thinks Konqueror's default is just fine and doesn't need to be pared down).
By jason at Sun, 2007/03/18 - 5:00am
Re: Old fashion look
Oh, I do like the new mockup, as it eases back on the clutter (though I'm not sold on artist info in the middle so much, I have too many untagged tracks to care). I might actually use Amarok if it looks like that, which is why I decry loss of columns. Something that looks like the mockup, *with columns* would attract me.
By jason at Sun, 2007/03/18 - 5:00am
Great work!
Developing this fast is impressive. In this very early state, it's already looking very good. And also quite innovative, I like that. Ofcourse I can't say anything about usability yet. But I'll trust that is in save hands by the Amarok team :)
By frodoontop at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: Great work!
Thank you for your trust. Thats all we can ask for at this point. :)
By Ian Monroe at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
yeah right..
isn't that what Hitler asked for in 1933? And look what it worked out to in 1939!
By eMPee at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: yeah right..
> isn't that what Hitler asked for in 1933? And look what it worked out to in 1939!
that's gotta be the lamest joke ever.
By patcito at Wed, 2007/03/14 - 5:00am
new GUI
I really love the new GUI (Mockup).thats really usable.I think the current Context Browser has a big problem: Its tabs.I hate those tabs (Music/Lyrics/Wikipedia).everytime im in one of them, I miss the others.I really want to see them all merged.(A brief wikipedia text and image that could be extended by a collapsing 'Hide'Show' link + lyrics in a HTML Frame (should have scroll bars) + Similliar artists/Favourite albums and... below that)
but since everyone wants his own things, i was thinking about Templating that (think about Smarty in PHP, something simmiliar that everyone creates his own 'Contex Bar Themes'.not only CSS)
By Emil Sedgh at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: new GUI
@ all flamebaits around :
By the way, I liked the parent idea much.
(ps : english is far from my natural language, sorry)
By sebastien at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
The New UI
Please don't make the new UI the default. Its very cumbersome, and non intuitive. The current UI doesn't have much quirks imho, maybe you can just fold the tabs together or something like that - but definitely, not this way.
By Sarath at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: The New UI
How can you know it isn't usable if you haven't used it?
By Seb Ruiz at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: The New UI
I guess he tried to click on the controls in the mockup :o)
By whatever noticed at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: The New UI
Well, maybe I use cvs...
By Luis at Tue, 2007/04/17 - 5:00am
tag cloud
Maybe a good idea to have an option to display a tag cloud (like on Flickr) on the middle pane to select music. Another comment I would like to make: Why not use (dynamic) treeviews more to cut down on the number of tabs.
Keep up the good work!
By cossidhon at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Keep going...
Keep going where you're going, amarok devs. Regardless of people's disapproval (at least until you're finished). You've created good things in the past, and I hope everyone can trust you to do so again.
By Steve at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Zack Rusin has written a CoverFlow clone for Qt4. If you Amarok developers want to integrate that:
Like some other people, I'm not that excited about the new playlist.
By KAMiKAZOW at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: CoverFlow
Actually... We were discussing this a little sporadically last night, and we actually came up with an idea that might work with this... None of us have ever really thought of CoverFlow as something that's useful - pretty yes, but not useful really... So... How about a CD Stack in stead, which looks like CoverFlow, but where the CD that's focused is shown with all the tracks listed underneath in a list?
The reasoning behind this is fairly simple - we don't have the horizontal space to show the CoverFlow in any pleasant way, however we have a lot of vertical space... So a stack of CDs, where one is shown as open with a track list suddenly flopped into my mind, i suggested it and well... The few people who were looking at the channel at that moment liked the idea.
i'm just tossing it out here to show that we're not ignoring people and that we're really thinking about the usefulness of any eye-candy we include too ;)
By Dan Leinir Turt... at Wed, 2007/03/14 - 5:00am
nice job
I like the look of the mockup. Really, I don't care if it's inspired by something else, and I think complaining about it is pointless. It displays all the information the traditional playlist but in a more elegant and compact fashion. Keep up the great work!
By chris at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
I like it but...
I really like the new Amarok but... I'm much more focusing on my collection than on the context browser. When the Amarok window is shown on my desktop, it's because I want to change the content of my playlist. Otherwise it's closed in the tray. I really think you're focusing on the wrong thing. Of course the context browser is really usefull and I use it, but not as much as the collection pane, which is, let's be honest, crap... I like to go through my collection the same way as I go through my shelves... looking at the covers. I must admit, even if I'm going to risk my life ;-), that the WMP Collection Manager is really well done, usefull, easy to use... At least it shows the covers in a configurable size next to the tracks. And that's the only thing I'm looking at, I don't want to bother reading the tags if I'm not looking for a song in particular. And it shows the track number and the length of the songs as well, in case I need them, which is not even implemented in Amarok. Every back cover of a CD has that information but not the collection manager, that's... weird isn't it ? The TreeView widget is definitely not a good choice for displaying a collection IMO.
So please focus on the collection manager, and make it more useable. Make it feel like wood... as a normal shelf, with real CD's on it.
By Cypher at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: I like it but...
I fully agree.
The two most important things are the collection browser and the playlist.
By Sébastien Laoût at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: I like it but...
i agree fully.
1. there's nothing wrong in comparing and borrowing features from other media players. ignoring good ideas just because it's itunes or wmp is plain stupid.
2. some people focus mostly on their playlists, sorting and arranging them. other focus mostly on their collection, navigating it looking for new stuff to play. i'm in the second camp, but that's not really the point. the point is:
amarok 2.0 should allow the user to "set up" their inerface the way they want (within limits). so please, allow us to completely hide or resize any view we choose. that way the user can control the focus.
By helmudt at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: I like it but...
Your last sentence is gold.
One of the things that's always annoyed me about Amarok compared to other KDE applications is the lack of customisability. Why can't you just allow users to decide how big the playlist/collection browser/context menu is?
I just don't see why you can't see that different users want different things, and rather than forcing everyone down one path, it makes sense to allow people to change their player.
Personally, I frequently use playlists of hundreds of tracks and I can't see ANY way the 2.0 mockup will handle this.
Is any actual usability analysis being done of the interface or are the developers just storming ahead with what they think?
Little hint, want to make a better interface? Consult HCI specialists. THAT IS THEIR JOB!
By Mike Arthur at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: I like it but...
Man, what EXACTLY are you whining about? The article has mockups, not actual screenshots of the new software, so you don't know what you're going to get (yet). And it clearly says that much of the interface will be configurable, but here you are sounding like a crying baby that had his candy taken away! And over free software at that!
It's one thing to ask for features, but you are practically insulting the developers.
Here's a clue for you - if you get the new Amarok and it ends up being something you don't like...downgrade.
By james at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: I like it but...
Yes. The collection browser has been the thing that truly annoyed me about Amarok from the very start. Take a look at the competition:
Time and time again the original(winamp) is copied. Why? Because the multi-pane view separating artist album (and optionally genre) from songs is pretty much the ultimate way to quickly and flexibly find what you are looking for.
I type "someword" in the filter box on top, and I get this view:
any artist album or song that matches someword is displayed.
This is simply orders of magnitude faster and more convenient than the Amarok way of browsing your collection via a tree structure.I've been using amarok for years now, and I'm still frustrated by this on a daily basis. Amarok is superior to winamp in every other way I can think of, but this single feature would have me using winamp instead of Amarok if it only worked right under wine.
I'm begging here; please bring this functionality to amarok, it would make a world of difference.
And of course, since I'm already begging favors, make it ultimately configurable so that the user can set it up with any filter criteria they wish in any GUI layout they wish.With the flexibility of QT interfaces(drag and drop interface parts), what's stopping you from making it so configurable that users could make the filtering look like this if they choose?
User/Newbie friendly defaults, and ultimate configurability. That's what Linux should be all about in my opinion. Please bring Amarok closer to that ideal!
By Smoked at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am
Re: I like it but...
Try the flat view. Its been in Amarok forever and does exactly what you are asking.
By THIBOLOT at Tue, 2007/03/13 - 5:00am


text:
The Road to KDE 4: Konsole Gets an Overhaul
Again, after a delay brought on by a bout Real Life (tm), we return to bring you updates on the state of Konsole, KDE's UNIX terminal program. Konsole has been a staple of KDE since KDE 1.0, as has been showing signs of a little bit of clutter and wear. So, Robert Knight has stepped in to clean up the program's code, and more than anything else, fix a cluttered and difficult interface. Read on for the details.
The goal of Konsole itself is pretty simple: provide a window to run a command prompt and command-line applications from. In fact, it has evolved from the very simple 'kvt' terminal program in the pre-KDE 1.0 days. An older KDE 1.x version of Konsole is pictured below:
Image courtesy of a (very old) book about Linux at linuxbook.orbdesigns.com licensed under the (also very old) Open Content License v1.
The version of Konsole from that era was very simple, but it wouldn't stay that way, as more and more features were added. Konsole users wanted transparency (shiny!), support for more text encoding schemes, ways to control every feature possible: Konsole ballooned into a monster. By KDE 3.x, it can best described as a highly-functional mess.
As an example of just how bad Konsole had become for KDE 3.x, I present the following screenshots, the first showing a normal Konsole window from KDE 3.5.6:
Possibly the worst settings menu of any KDE application in KDE 3.5.6 follows:
And if that isn't enough, actually going to the settings dialog makes the situation even worse.
If this isn't the most user-friendly theme dialog you've ever seen, then demand a refund. (I joke! It's actually terrible for many reasons, but the seemingly random nature of it is probably the best reason to dislike it).
The worst offenders are the settings menus, as you can see. An overly complex settings menu leads itself to an ugly settings dialog.
When the KDE 4 development series commenced, Robert Knight took over maintainership of Konsole. He decided that he would focus on bug reports and feature requests filed via the KDE Bugtracker, bugs.kde.org. Ever aware of the fact that users can be pretty picky about what features an application like Konsole needs to have, he created a few online surveys to help with the determination of the most common as well as fringe use cases. This feedback has driven much of the work.
The end result is a Konsole for KDE 4 that is visually very similar, functionally improved and with a settings system you can actually stomach. The screenshot below shows that the main window has not changed too much. The tabs are shown at the top in this screenshot, however Robert tells me that they have been defaulted to the bottom of the window as this article went to press. Additionally, you'll notice that the text on the tabs contains more helpful information. This is configurable is a friendly manner - see three shots down.
The once-intimidating settings menu now becomes very simple. It may look like the configuration options are gone, but they are still all available in a sanely organized fashion.
As you see below, the settings menu leads to a Profile selector, under which all the settings are kept separated. They are much more organized now, rather than an odd collection of random check boxes.
And lastly, the appearance people will appreciate this dialog: its implementation is effective and its use becomes obvious. Additionally, Robert has implemented style previews in an intuitive manner. As you mouse over the style, the Konsole window in the background automatically applies that style in an active preview. So you can very rapidly look through and appreciate the styles just by hovering over the list.
Side-by-side comparisons aside, Konsole also offers a number of other improvements. Among them, split-view mode, faster scrolling (thanks to a smarter line redrawing scheme), hotkeys and more.
Much of the inspiration for these improvements comes from analysing other programs. For example, the split-view mode, pictured below, is inspired by GNU Screen. It is a console output cloning tool so that you can see two views of the same scroll buffer. For example, if you are a developer, and you need to compile something really big (like say, KDE), then you can read through the scroll at your own pace on one side, while still monitor the output progress simultaneously. This is not a multi-panel model like Konqueror, so much as it is a cloning mode that lets you see more than one thing at a time within the same buffer. In this shot, the two sides are displaying the same output, just scrolled to different points.
There is friendly interaction between Konsole and some of its biggest users. In particular, Yakuake just recently implemented a Split View mode like the one listed above. When I asked Eike Hein about the relationship between the two projects, he said "I think Yakuake is beneficial to Konsole in KDE 4 in so much as Yakuake is a more demanding user of the Konsole KPart than most applications, so developing Yakuake has resulted in finding out a few things about how the KPart's interface can be improved :)"
Konsole has benefited from a few features that were requested by the Yakuake users. For example, there is a new hotkey that pops the terminal up and down quickly. This was in response to requests from the Yakuake users when Robert did his interface survey. Of course, like all things KDE, it is configurable. With Robert at the helm, it is even more user-friendly to configure it.
Future plans for Konsole include, among other things, ideas such as: tear off tabs, a commandline configuration interface, and making tea. I asked Robert if it would one day make coffee, but he's British and much prefers it to make tea it seems. Perhaps when it obtains beverage-making abilities, this argument will resurface once again. :)
On a side note, this is the first time I have attempted to write my article from within KDE 4 itself. While a few applications were not stable enough to use, including Kicker (which is dying anyway), the experience was good enough that I will probably do the same henceforth. Now that the libraries have mostly settled down (with a few exceptions), the changes are becoming more apparent in the applications. I'll be keeping an eye out for more things to feature in this series, but the next topic should be the KWin window manager, barring any major problems. Cheers.
Re: Border in fullscreen
As far as I know this is a "bug" in QTabBar and is fixed in Qt4 series. Perhaps someone with more knowledge about the issue can correct me if I'm dead wrong in this... :)
By tpr at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: Border in fullscreen
Close. It is a 'bug' in QTabWidget, which (still) does not provide a means to turn the frame on or off.
Konsole currently uses a replacement tab widget I wrote using a QTabBar (that is just the widget which draws the tabs and handles interaction with them) and a widget stack. The main motivation was to get rid of the border, but it also has other benefits. Adding new tabs is smoother and slightly quicker. Tabs are also allowed more of the window width by default which provides more room if you have long tab titles.
By Robert Knight at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: Border in fullscreen
Can't you send this as a patch to the trolls or something, to get it in 4.3!!
By superstoned at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: Border in fullscreen
As far as I know, it's a little late to get things included in 4.3, except bugfixes.
By Troy Unrau at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
I Really Like the Existing Konsole..
Frankly, I find the settings menu and dialog to be very intuitive. Although I use it every day, I was able to find what I am looking for the first time I ever tried. It was easier than in kwrite, kword, kspread--and god forbid konversation that doesn't even have a copy/paste option. But I will wait and see, before I judge the new setup.
Also, I really like the tabs along the bottom of the window and would prefer that over having them up top, near the menu. I might accidentally click on a menu.
The split-screen option could be VERY useful. I am happy to see that.
Another feature that could be very useful, is to have a toggle button handy to switch between modes of capturing or not capturing CTL-Z, X, C, and V. Because it really sucks having to use the edit menu.. and the middle-mouse button doesn't always give what I copied.. It gives whatever I last selected--which is sometimes different.
By Matthew C. Tedder at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
Re: I Really Like the Existing Konsole..
Yakuake is nice but I never managed to set it up so the window pops up from below the screen.
By semsem at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
Re: I Really Like the Existing Konsole..
>> Another feature that could be very useful, is to have a toggle button handy to switch between modes of capturing or not capturing CTL-Z, X, C, and V. Because it really sucks having to use the edit menu.. and the middle-mouse button doesn't always give what I copied.. It gives whatever I last selected--which is sometimes different.
Huh? Just use an alternative shortcut for paste etc (ctrl+alt+v for example). About middle mouse - try Klipper.
By Lans at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: I Really Like the Existing Konsole..
^Z — what (and how) would you Undo in a terminal? o_O
^X/^C/^V — how about Ctrl-Del, Ctrl-Ins, Shift-Ins?
By ralesk at Sat, 2007/05/26 - 5:00am
Please allow the konsole look to be as it currently is in kde 3.5, with tab bar at bottom, and the button to create new tab. I really dont like the look put forth with tabs at top, though i think that can be configured, since it is KDE after all :D
i love the split functionality though.
By redeeman at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
Re: please
/me points up and says "Read the article again." :)
By Troy Unrau at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
Re: please
So the tabs are at the bottom (yay), but what about the new tab/close tab buttons? I tend to doubleclick the tab bar to make a new tab, but I wonder if this will be more difficult with the newly really wide tabs (filling up the tab bar faster). Even with narrower tabs, when it gets full I'd rather click a new tab button on the tab bar than session->new shell. And close tab is simply nice to have in place of or in addition to session->close session.
I'd say make it an option, but I see no reason not to have them. my 2¢
By jason at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
xterm like option add
The thing is that when you press the right button, it will past ... the_selected_text to the prompt, and an alias ...='/path/to/scipt.sh' make it quite nice.
So my whish for konsole in that regard would be an inteligent past. I mean, when clicking the middle moose button, AND IF THE PROMPT IS EMPTY, launch a user defined script. Comming whith a good one may turn konsole use much better.
Kind regards.
By David at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
worst menu...
> Possibly the worst settings menu of any KDE application in KDE 3.5.6 follows:
Made me think about what's the worst menu in KDE. I think it's Kate's "Extras" menu. Second is its "Document" menu (when having so much files open that it is multiple columns it's really annonying) on my list. Other candidates!?
By Carlo at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
No clickable links?
Yeah, Konsole has an awful settings setup, but messing with it is a waste when there are more important issues to take care of. You only change Konsole's setting once, when its lack of clickable links matters nearly every hour of every day. GNOME-Terminal has it, XFCE's Terminal has it, Mac OS X's Terminal.app has it (CMD+double click)... but Konsole lacks it. You may as well be using xterm.
It's been discussed before, where the Konsole people want to make it more general than just URLs. But what does that entail? Wasted time, that's what.
By mX at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
Re: No clickable links?
i never encounter links in konsole output :)
But you can double click on it, go to konqueror en middle click somewhere in konqueror or on the black-white cross of the location bar to open the link
By whatever noticed at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: No clickable links?
Some people may encounter links if they're using Konsole for IRCing perhaps via Irssi or some other cli IRC client. I've got used to double click the link and the middle mouse button paste in konqi window, though some new comers may not see this as a pro for Konsole when comparing Konsole to Gnome-Terminal for example... Me neither would mind if Konsole would support clickable links :)
By tpr at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: No clickable links?
well, you can get far with Klipper, which can have automatic actions and stuff like that. you'd have to doubleclick an url, and klipper will automatically launch Konqueror...
I generally doubleclick and middleclick on a tab or the empty space in konqi to open a link. having a clickable link doesn't make a huge difference if you don't use it often. But yeah, I can imagine if you use it often it will make a diff. So be happy, Konsole 4.0 DOES support it.
By superstoned at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: No clickable links?
Thanks for the info, tested it on my checkout and it indeed works quite fine. I'm used to doubleclick the URL and then using middle mouse button in clean tab after that.
By tpr at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: No clickable links?
> when its lack of clickable links matters
I think your comment is hyperbole, but to answer the question, links and email addresses are now clickable.
> where the Konsole people want to make it
I don't understand what you mean by "the Konsole people". My guess is that you saw a reply to a bug report or perhaps a comment on the dot where one person stated that this was their opinion on the matter. Please do not misrepresent this as a consensus between everyone who is involved with development of the terminal.
By Robert Knight at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: No clickable links?
my frustration with links comes from the failure of double-click to magically select the entire link. any nontrivial url tends to get only partially selected, and then I have to go click-and-drag with my silly little laptop mouse...
I also have a feeling that there's a way for me to improve this right now...
By Chani at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: No clickable links?
settings->configure konsole.
By richlv at Mon, 2007/05/28 - 5:00am
Re: Yes, we really need clickable links!
"lack of clickable links matters nearly every hour of every day."
I totally hear you! This would be such an obvious enhancement of Konsole, and i can't find a solution anywhere on google (except loads of people suggesting this feature.)
If anyway comes up with a solution / patch / plugin / whatever solution that will make URLs clickable, i'm buying beer.
By JoaCHIP at Thu, 2007/10/25 - 5:00am
set mouse=a
konsole doesn't work fine with vim when the option set mouse=a is on, when you select text it doesn't give the right feedback.. (compare it to xterm) it was something related to mouse protocol 2 or something like that.. and considering there is no vim client for kde.. this kind of sucks, can this feature be implemented
By hacosta at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: set mouse=a
Yes, I implemented this some time ago. Konsole doesn't quite provide all the mouse facilities that xterm has, but I have added the most important one which fixes behaviour with "set mouse=a" in Vim. The main benefit is that you can now drag the splitter bar up and down with the mouse as in other terminals.
By Robert Knight at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: set mouse=a
so this will be in kde4.. great! thanks
By hacosta at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: set mouse=a
oooh, cool :)
By Chani at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: set mouse=a
I hope I didn't forget to mention in the article that you are amazing...
By Troy Unrau at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Re: set mouse=a
Use gvim. Really, Vim is not an application where you use GUI to do stuff (as you should know already :)). It doesn't matter what toolkit does it use, if the first thing you usually do with your .gvimrc is putting a command to turn the menu and toolbar off (so they don't waste screen estate) :). Still, I would like to see a KVim. I believe someone once tried to make it... though the project was quickly abandoned. The uselessness of switching a toolkit for a GUI that either way is non-existant looks like a good reason :). Though cutting memory usage for a Qt-only desktop would be nice.
By zonk at Sat, 2007/05/26 - 5:00am
Konsole looking good!!
Looks great, hope that we have some flexibility in setting the titlebar text; my biggest annoyance with Konsole atm!
Keep up the good work, it's really appreciated :)
By effzee at Fri, 2007/05/25 - 5:00am
Tea, finally!
It's nice to finally see those hard-hearted developers dealing with the severe beverage usability issues in KDE. My old Apple II used to make tea for me when I first woke up, and then it fetched the paper and walked the dog for me. It's 2007 now people, and KDE is only _now_ catching up. Jeez!
On a more serious note, I'm grateful to Robert for the progress with konsole! I didn't realize I was missing some of these features, but they will be nice to have. Thanks!
By faketroll at Sun, 2007/05/27 - 5:00am
Wow, a gnome-terminal clone
The third screenshot from the bottom is almost identical to gnome-terminal. In fact, most of the changes seem to be... "borrowed" from the aforementioned. There's nothing wrong with that, gnome-terminal is a good terminal emulator (way better than the old Konsole which was horrific) but this is just like the similarities between Naut and.. what did they call it.. Dolphin?
Ah well, I never did like KDE so perhaps this subtle GNOMEification en-route to KDE4 will make it somewhat better. Certainly beats KDE's usual copying of OSX and Windows with their horrible design sense. C'mon people, the proprietary OSes don't actually have all the answers and - regardless of what Shuttleworth says - Linux should not try to be Windows plus Mac, it already has so much more to offer.
By Flax at Tue, 2007/05/29 - 5:00am
Wow, a new troll record
I will certainly propose you for the troll-of-the-month-award! And I'd say your chances to win are actually quite high.
By wassi at Wed, 2007/05/30 - 5:00am
Re: Wow, a gnome-terminal clone
lol, KDE doesent copy osx nor winblows. it creates whats best, and has done that for a long time. Ideas may come from seeing other applications, as with all, but it neither acts or looks as osx or winblows.
By redeeman at Thu, 2007/05/31 - 5:00am
KDE4 Konsole - the road to Gnome
I use console ALOT, and while have no problems with the simplification of a convoluted and complex menu structure i do have a problem with the reduction of useabilty and configuration options. I see no particular advantage to a menu in my console, as i am using a command line because i need to type commands. One of the most usefull things about the old tab bar was the button for a New Console, as thats were the mouse was (at the bottom near all the tabs) the menu was turned off (just extra clutter) and it's alot easier than ctrl-shift-N. There are many examples of this type of thing in KDE4, I will keep using KDE3.59 untill it no longer ships, then i will switch to gnome, which although i find more anoying to use, works KDE4 seems broken even when its running as it should.
By vince at Sat, 2008/06/28 - 5:00am
Re: KDE4 Konsole - the road to Gnome
I love how you simply assume that all of the features that haven't been ported yet will never be, and how you completely ignore any features in KDE4 and its apps that weren't in KDE3, as if the whole exercise of the creation of KDE4 was in removing features.
Anyway, sounds like you've made your choice regardless - have fun with GNOME! :)
By anon at Sat, 2008/06/28 - 5:00am
Re: KDE4 Konsole - the road to Gnome
So, basically, Vince, you're telling us that you miss two things in Konsole for KDE4?
* hide the menu
Have you actually looked at konsole in kde4 at all? Right-clickon on your konsole window. Click on the menu option that's labeled "show menu bar". Now the menu bar is hidden.
Then, right click on your konsole window. Choose "edit current profile". Go to the second tab, labeled "Tabs". Check the checkbox labeled "Show new tab and close tab buttons in tab bar". Now you've got your buttons.
Anything else you didn't bother to actually check out before complaining that you need help with?
By Boudewijn Rempt at Sat, 2008/06/28 - 5:00am
Re: KDE4 Konsole - the road to Gnome
Well... I followed your most excellent instructions for the "new tab" button and guess what, there's no checkbox on my "Tabs" tab.
I have 2 text boxes under "Tab Titles" and two combo boxes under "Tab Options".
No check boxes.
KDE 4.0.5 on Fedora 9
Anywhere else I should be checking before I complain? :) :)
By Pat at Tue, 2008/07/08 - 5:00am
Re: KDE4 Konsole - the road to Gnome
Yes - a more recent version of KDE4 ;)
By anon at Tue, 2008/07/08 - 5:00am
Re: KDE4 Konsole - the road to Gnome
Hah! Talk to the nice folks over at Fedora, maybe you can motivate them... :)
Still waiting for my 4.1 packages...
By Pat at Tue, 2008/07/08 - 5:00am
Re: KDE4 Konsole - the road to Gnome
Oh well - here's a little screenie to tide you over :)
By SSJ at Tue, 2008/07/08 - 5:00am


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SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) — With four medical clinics across the Southeast, commuting by private plane was a routine day at work for Dr. Steven Roth and his surgical staff.
The Augusta-based vascular surgeon would fly at least one day a week to of the practice's satellite clinics in Atlanta, Nashville, Tenn., and Raleigh, N.C., where he and a small team of nurses and technicians would perform surgeries and consult with patients.
Now, federal investigators are working to determine why Roth's trip Wednesday night turned deadly. The private jet had returned to eastern Georgia after a day's work at the Nashville clinic 400 miles away when the pilots aborted their landing, struck a 60-foot utility pole about a quarter-mile past the runway and crashed, breaking into fragments of flaming wreckage. Roth and four members of his staff were killed, and two pilots were hospitalized.
"It's a trip that's been made hundreds of times," said Melissa Benak, the wife of Roth's Atlanta-based co-worker Dr. Mark Benak. "So I think that's why people are especially in shock."
The crash devastated the partner physicians and staff that worked closely with the 48-year-old Roth to expand the medical practice, which they called the Vein Guys, since the surgeon opened his first clinic in Augusta in 2004.
Four members of Roth's traveling medical team also died in the crash. They included nurse anesthetist Lisa Volpitto, 46; ultrasound technician Tiffany Porter, 28; and Kim Davidson, 46, who was Roth's executive assistant.
The fifth crash victim had still not been positively identified, McDuffie County Coroner Foster Wiley said Friday. A spokeswoman for the Vein Guys, Tina Vidal-Smith, said the fifth person traveling with Roth was ultrasound technician Heidi McCorkle, 28. The medical firm said in a statement that the two pilots survived.
Vidal-Smith said three of the staff had been with Roth for at least five years. Only Porter, a native of Albany, was new to the practice. She had been working with Roth just three days before the crash.
"They were a family, and they've been together for a really long time," Vidal-Smith said.
Roth and his team treated patients for varicose veins, spider veins and other vascular diseases affecting the legs. The doctor would see patients a few days each week in Augusta, then use the jet for day-trips to treat patients at the other clinics.
"It was a natural course of business for him," Vidal-Smith said.
Investigators for the National Transportation Safety Board returned Friday to the crash site about a half-mile from the small, private airport in Thomson, about 30 miles west of Augusta. The NTSB quickly determined the plane overshot the runway and hit a concrete utility pole, tearing off the jet's left wing and causing fuel to leak and burst into flames. NTSB board member Robert Sumwalt said that much of the wreckage was in small fragments strewn over 100 yards and that most of the plane had burned.
What remains unknown is why the jet's pilot aborted the landing. The jet approached the runway under clear skies. Flight records confirmed the plane had made the same trip many times, Sumwalt said Friday, and air traffic controllers in Augusta received no distress calls.
Pilots would typically notify air traffic controllers of mechanical malfunctions or emergencies, Sumwalt said.
Sumwalt said experts in Washington would take a closer look at video from a motion-activated security camera at the airport that caught only a brief and grainy glimpse at the jet.
Investigators had also paid a brief visit to one of the hospitalized pilots, Sumwalt said, but detailed interviews about what happened before the crash would have to wait.
"Obviously, they've got the firsthand accounts of what happened, as best as they can remember them," Sumwalt said. "But you can't just go storming into a hospital and conduct an interview."
One of the pilots, Richard Trammel, was upgraded to fair condition Friday at Georgia Regents Medical Center in Augusta. The name of the second pilot had not been released by authorities, and his condition remained unknown.
Joshua Williams, a fellow charter pilot, said he had known Trammel for 18 years.
"He's a very experienced pilot, a very skilled pilot with many, many years of expertise," Williams said, though he declined to comment further.


text: Friday, June 01, 2012 Using the Model Benefit Plan to Ensure Access to Physical Therapy Services Hear how 3 APTA members use the association's position Physical Therapy Model Benefit Plan (MBP) Design to ensure consumer access to physical therapy services in 2 new podcasts in a series on MBP. Steve Levine, PT, DPT, MSHA, who has nearly 20 years of experience as a consultant to physical therapy providers, local and national third-party payers, regulators, and case management agencies, explains how standardizing coverage guidelines can help address issues such as under- or overutilization of services. Levine calls MBP "an effective tool to use with third-party payers, regulators, and health policy makers to ensure that coverage design meets the needs of all of the stakeholders who will be affected by the coverage policies enacted by those who control the physical therapy coverage benefit." Private practitioner Mick Bates, PT, uses MBP "to explain to my patients what 'good' coverage looks like when it comes to physical therapy so they can get the most of what they do have and negotiate for better coverage with their employers and carriers at renewal." Bates, who serves on the West Virginia Chapter's Reimbursement Committee, says the committee uses MBP as part of a tool kit for patients to file complaints with the insurance commissioner over coverage denials for medically necessary services. The committee also plans to use it in an upcoming meeting with the medical director and executive director of the Public Employees Insurance Association to negotiate for improved physical therapy coverage within the insurance plan for state employees. Hear more from Levine and Bates in Physical Therapy Model Benefit Plan Design: From Position to Practice, Part I. In Part II, Carole Galletta, PT, MPH, insurance relations chair for the Pennsylvania Chapter, describes how the chapter uses MBP to educate payers and support its efforts aimed at reducing out-of pocket payments and separating physical therapy benefit limits from other disciplines. She says, "…I think MBP provides us with an opportunity to clarify just what physical therapists do, to enlighten payers with our definition of medically necessary care, to identify how excessive cost sharing limits patient access to care, and to emphasize how physical therapy services can reduce disability and clinical costs." Comments It looks like MBP has good practical benefits both for the consumer as well as health policy makers. http://dallasnaturaldoctor.com Posted by Dr. J Malay on 8/15/2012 12:28 PM


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The Jacksonville Public Library Zine Collection presents Paten Locke and Willie Evans Jr live in the Main Library on July 6th! We're kicking off International Zine Month right with a combination of independent publishing and independent music! Since before Asamov these two talented performers have been setting the standard for artists coming out of Jacksonville. Touring all over America and Europe, these two are some of the most intriguing live acts you will find. From video manipulation, to record scratching, to the art of MCing, to doing all that at the same time! You can't find anything better than Paten Locke and Willie Evans Jr! My word on that! Plus it's free! And we'll have a bunch of brand new zines available for checkout as well!
We'll be in what was formerly Shelby's Café, right near the Laura Street entrance. The Main Library is at the corner of Laura and Duval, across from Hemming Plaza. Event starts promptly at 6:30p.m.