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Standard/Remote Delivery
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Important Information To Note For Domestic Customers
- Working days are Monday to Friday, excluding bank holidays.
- We will send you a shipment/tracking email when we have despatched your parcel.
- Tracking numbers may not become active until the evening when the courier sorts your parcel.
- A signature will be required on delivery for parcels sent with UPS, or DPD.
- Parcels sent with Royal Mail may be left at a post office or delivery office if nobody is available to sign for the parcel.
- Free shipping is a discount. As such if items are returned that take your order value under the 'Free when you spend' amount the shipping discount will be claimed back.
HubBox Click & Collect
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- Select Click & Collect at checkout, and choose your collection point.
- You will receive a confirmation email from HubBox.
- We will ship your order to the collection point using the shipping service selected at checkout (see table above).
- When your parcel arrives at the collection point, you will receive a second email with a 6-digit collection code, you will need this code to collect your parcel.
- You have 14 days to collect your parcel.
International Customers
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- Rollersnakes is based in the United Kingdom.
- All parcels shipped to outside of the United Kingdom are considered International parcels.
- Depending on the volume and weight of your parcel additional charges may apply to be able dispatch international parcels, if you do not agree to pay these we reserve the right to cancel your order.
- It is vital that when you place your order you provide us with a valid daytime telephone number as well as an email address as the courier may wish to contact you.
- The stated transit time is from date of dispatch. Please allow one working day for dispatch of your parcel.
- Our couriers class working days as Monday to Friday, excluding local holidays.
- Our couriers do not deliver to PO Box (Post Office Box) addresses.
- Any customs or import duties are charged once the parcel reaches its destination country. These charges must be paid by the recipient of the parcel. Unfortunately, we have no control over these charges, and cannot tell you what the cost would be, as customs policies and import duties vary widely from country to country.
100 Day Return Policy
If your items are not as you had hoped for - you've got 100 days from the date of receiving your goods to return them to us. Conditions apply see below.
To return your item(s) follow these instructions;
1) Locate the Despatch note included with your original parcel. If you do not have it then write a note to include with your return parcel.
2) Write the appropriate return code next to the item(s) you wish to return;
101 / Refund - Item too big
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104 / Refund - Wrong item ordered
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106 / Refund - Arrived too late
107 / Refund - Faulty
108 / Refund - Other
201 / Exchange - Item too big
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205 / Exchange - Wrong item received
206 / Exchange - Arrived too late
207 / Exchange - Faulty
208 / Exchange - Other
3) Package up your items securely.
4) Write the following address clearly on the outside of the package; Returns Department, Rollersnakes, Unit 7, The Parker Industrial Estate, Mansfield Road, Derby, DE21 4SZ
5) Take your parcel to a post office and pay them to send the package back to us.
Important information for returning items
Consumer Contract Regulations (CCR)
The UK Consumer Contract Regulations advise that you have 14 days in which you can cancel your contract for your order in order to receive a full refund including your postage to get the item to you.
The 14 calendar days start from the time when you receive your goods. To cancel your order please inform us here.
To return your order for cancellation you must return your full order and must comply with our Conditions of Return.
Please note: UK Consumer Contract Regulations exclude the following:
Custom skateboard builds, including gripped decks
Sealed media, such as CDs, DVDs that have been opened
Underwear and swimwear
- Packaging - If possible return the item(s) in their original packaging. Garment labels and tags must still be attached. The shoe box forms part of the goods and as such we ask that you place the shoe box inside further packaging to avoid damage.
- Item Condition - Make sure the item is not damaged, marked or visibly worn. Do not wash your item(s) or attempt to change them in any way. Always try on your shoes indoors on carpet to avoid getting marks on them and for hygiene purposes wear socks.
Special Discounts and Free Gifts
Free gifts returned to us for exchange will not be eligible for free postage back to you.
Items returned for refund that contributed towards a special discount, for example multi-buys, free items, and free postage, the discount will be claimed back where applicable. For example if only one item was returned from a 'buy one get one free' offer the discount would be claimed back.
- Custom skateboard builds, including gripped decks.
- Sealed media, such as CDs, DVDs that have been opened.
- Underwear and swimwear.
Please be aware that due to the nature of skateboarding any snapped/cracked deck or shoes that have been worn down by griptape are not considered faulty and cannot be returned to us.
If you want to refuse, or have refused delivery because you do not want the parcel you will be liable for any costs we incur from our courier for return delivery.
We accept returns from all countries we ship to. Return postage costs are to be covered by the customer. Postage will be charged for any outgoing parcels.
In the unfortunate event that your item(s) is faulty, please contact us with;
- The order number
- The faulty item's name and number
- A description of the fault
- Pictures of the fault where possible
We'll endeavour to get a resolution for you as quickly as possible.
Please be aware that due to the nature of skateboarding any snapped/cracked deck or shoes that have been worn down by griptape are not considered faulty and cannot be returned to us.
Returns sent at your own expense will only receive a refund to the value of £3.49 the cost of a Rollersnakes returns label.
For your convenience, you can go to our Derby store with your returns. Please ensure that you take your invoice with you as proof of purchase. Exchanges can be dealt with immediately, however refunds must go through our refund process and could take up to 14 working days to clear into your account.
All exchanges and refunds are processed within 2 working days of receiving them back. We will send you an email (if a valid email address was included on your order) to let you know we've processed your exchange or refund.
Returned items where more information is required from the customer to complete the transaction will only be held for 6 months maximum. The items will then either be returned to the customer or disposed of.
Returns Department
Rollersnakes, Unit 7
The Parker Industrial Estate, Mansfield Road
Stack core street graphics on top of your everyday staple. Combining elements of skate, street and nature, the Vertical balances a tree logo on top of an Element wordmark. The logo graphic is printed onto a classic raglan sleeve t-shirt, featuring contrast sleeve and clip label at the left sleeve.
- Jersey 160G
- Regular fit
- Color blocked raglan t-shirt
- soft hand screen print
- heat seal neck label
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Brenner Children's pediatric emergency department has moved back to its original location. Learn more
In order to help protect patients, family members and health care workers from the spread of COVID-19, no visitors are allowed at any of Wake Forest Baptist Health's outpatient or inpatient facilities, except in certain situations.Learn moreMore COVID-19 Updates
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a disease that occurs in premature babies. It causes abnormal blood vessels to grow in the retina, the layer of nerve tissue in the eye that enables us to see. This growth can cause the retina to detach from the back of the eye, leading to blindness.
Some cases of ROP are mild and correct themselves, but others require surgery to prevent vision loss or blindness. Surgery involves using a laser or other means to stop the growth of the abnormal blood vessels, making sure they don't pull on the retina.
Because there are varying degrees of ROP, the surgical approach used can differ for each case. The more you know about retinopathy of prematurity and your baby's surgery, the easier the experience is likely to be for you.
Retinopathy of prematurity causes blood vessels to grow abnormally and randomly in the eye. These abnormal vessels tend to leak or bleed, which leads to scarring of the retina. When the scars shrink, they pull on the retina, causing it to detach from the back of the eye.
Since the retina is a vital part of vision, its detachment will cause blindness.
Blood vessels grow from the center of a developing baby's retina 16 weeks into the mother's pregnancy, and then branch outward and reach the edges of the retina 8 months into the pregnancy. In babies born prematurely, normal retinal vessel growth may be disrupted and abnormal vessels can develop, which can cause leaking and bleeding in the eye.
ROP can stop or reverse itself at any point, so it often resolves as the baby grows. Sometimes, though, the disease may progress to cause scarring, which pulls the retina away from the rest of the eye.
ROP has no signs or symptoms. The only way to detect it is through an eye examination by an ophthalmologist.
ROP surgery is used to stop the growth of abnormal blood vessels by focusing treatment on the peripheral retina (the sides of the retina) to preserve the central retina (the most important part of the retina). ROP surgery involves scarring areas on the peripheral retina to stop the abnormal growth and eliminate pulling on the retina.
Since surgery focuses treatment on the peripheral retina, these areas will be scarred and some amount of peripheral vision may be lost. However, by preserving the central retina, the eye will still be able to perform vital functions like seeing straight ahead, distinguishing colors, reading, etc.
The most frequently used methods of ROP surgery are:
For more-advanced cases of ROP where retinal detachment has occurred, these methods are used:
Your baby's ophthalmologist will determine and discuss with you which ROP surgery method is best.
Your baby's pediatric ophthalmologist will describe the procedure and answer your questions. This is a good time to ask questions about anything that you don't understand.
ROP surgery is usually performed with a patient under either general anesthesia (medication that induces a deep sleep-like state) or deep sedation (medication that makes the patient unaware of the procedure but not as deeply sedated as with general anesthesia).
Although there is no cutting or stitching involved in laser surgery or cryotherapy, all surgical procedures for retinopathy of prematurity require that the baby be given sedation and pain medication or general anesthesia.
Laser surgery and cryotherapy are usually done at the child's bedside with sedation and pain medication. Because scleral buckle and vitrectomy surgeries require general anesthesia, they are done in an operating room. For all procedures, your baby's breathing and heart rate will be closely watched during the surgery.
Your child will receive eye drops to dilate the pupil(s) before each procedure. During the surgery, a tool called an eyelid speculum will be gently inserted under the eyelids to keep them from closing.
The eye will be covered with a patch after scleral buckling and vitrectomy, but not after laser or cryotherapy. Whether a hospital stay is required will depend on the child's medical condition and age at the time of surgery.
If admission to the hospital isn't necessary, you'll be able to take your child home about an hour after the procedure. Follow-up care for ROP surgery includes giving your child eye drops (to prevent infection) for at least a week.
To make sure the eyes are healing properly and that ROP hasn't returned, eye exams should be scheduled based on instructions from the ophthalmologist. This is usually every 1-2 weeks. For scleral buckling, the ophthalmologist must examine the buckle every 6 months to account for your child's growing eye.
The goal of surgery for retinopathy of prematurity is to stop the progression of the disease and prevent blindness. Although ROP surgery has a good success rate, not all babies respond to treatment. Up to 25% of babies who have ROP surgery might still lose some or all vision.
Keep in mind that for all types of ROP surgery, a degree of your child's peripheral (side) vision will be lost. And even if the ROP has stopped progressing, vision still can be affected.
Since some vision loss and complications can occur, any child who has had ROP surgery should have regular, yearly eye exams well into adulthood.
Reviewed by: Elana Pearl Ben-Joseph, MD
Date reviewed: March 2013
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Skin is our largest organ. If the skin of a typical 150-pound (68-kilogram) adult male were stretched out flat, it would cover about 2 square yards (1.7 square meters) and weigh about 9 pounds (4 kilograms). Our skin protects the network of muscles, bones, nerves, blood vessels, and everything else inside our bodies. Our eyelids have the thinnest skin, the soles of our feet the thickest.
Hair is actually a modified type of skin. Hair grows everywhere on the human body except the palms of the hands, soles of the feet, and lips. Hair grows more quickly in summer than winter, and more slowly at night than during the day.
Like hair, nails are a type of modified skin. Nails protect the sensitive tips of fingers and toes. Human nails aren't necessary for living, but they do provide support for the tips of the fingers and toes, protect them from injury, and aid in picking up small objects. Without them, we'd have a hard time scratching an itch or untying a knot. Nails can be an indicator of a person's general health, and illness often affects their growth.
Skin is essential in many ways. It forms a barrier that prevents harmful substances and microorganisms from entering the body. It protects body tissues against injury. It also controls the loss of life-sustaining fluids like blood and water, helps regulate body temperature through perspiration (sweating), and protects from the sun's damaging ultraviolet rays.
Without the nerve cells in skin, people couldn't feel warmth, cold, or other sensations. For instance, goosebumps form when the erector pili muscles contract to make hairs on the skin stand up straight when someone is cold, excited, or frightened — the blood vessels keep the body from losing heat by narrowing as much as possible and keeping the warm blood away from the skin's surface, offering insulation and protection.
Every square inch of skin contains thousands of cells and hundreds of sweat glands, oil glands, nerve endings, and blood vessels. Skin is made up of three layers: the epidermis, dermis, and the subcutaneous tissue.
The upper layer of our skin, the epidermis, is the tough, protective outer layer. It's about as thick as a sheet of paper over most parts of the body. The epidermis has four layers of cells that are constantly flaking off and being renewed. In these four layers are three special types of cells:
Because the cells in the epidermis are completely replaced about every 28 days, cuts and scrapes heal quickly.
Below the epidermis is the next layer of our skin, the dermis, which is made up of blood vessels, nerve endings, and connective tissue. The dermis nourishes the epidermis. Two types of fibers in the dermis — collagen and elastin — help the skin stretch when we bend and reposition itself when we straighten up. Collagen is strong and hard to stretch, and elastin, as its name suggests, is elastic. In older people, some of the elastin-containing fibers degenerate, which is one reason why the skin looks wrinkled.
The dermis also contains a person's sebaceous glands. These glands, which surround and empty into hair follicles and pores, produce the oil sebum that lubricates the skin and hair. Sebaceous glands are found mostly in the skin on the face, upper back, shoulders, and chest.
Most of the time, the sebaceous glands make the right amount of sebum. As a person's body begins to mature and develop during the teenage years, though, hormones stimulate the sebaceous glands to make more sebum. When pores become clogged by too much sebum and too many dead skin cells, this contributes to acne. Later in life, these glands produce less sebum, which contributes to dry skin as people age.
The bottom layer of our skin, the subcutaneous tissue, is made up of connective tissue, sweat glands, blood vessels, and cells that store fat. This layer helps protect the body from blows and other injuries and helps it hold in body heat.
There are two types of sweat glands:
The hair on our heads isn't just there for looks. It keeps us warm by preserving heat. The hair in the nose, ears, and around the eyes protects these sensitive areas from dust and other small particles. Eyebrows and eyelashes protect eyes by decreasing the amount of light and particles that go into them. The fine hair that covers the body provides warmth and protects the skin. Hair also cushions the body against injury.
Human hair consists of the hair shaft, which projects from the skin's surface, and the root, a soft thickened bulb at the base of the hair embedded in the skin. The root ends in the hair bulb, which sits in a sac-like pit in the skin called the follicle, from which the hair grows.
At the bottom of the follicle is the papilla, where hair growth actually takes place. The papilla contains an artery that nourishes the root of the hair. As cells multiply and produce keratin to harden the structure, they're pushed up the follicle and through the skin's surface as a shaft of hair. Each hair has three layers: the medulla at the center, which is soft; the cortex, which surrounds the medulla and is the main part of the hair; and the cuticle, the hard outer layer that protects the shaft.
Hair grows by forming new cells at the base of the root. These cells multiply to form a rod of tissue in the skin. The rods of cells move upward through the skin as new cells form beneath them. As they move up, they're cut off from their supply of nourishment and start to form a hard protein called keratin in a process called keratinization. As this process occurs, the hair cells die. The dead cells and keratin form the shaft of the hair.
Each hair grows about 1/4 inch (about 6 millimeters) every month and keeps on growing for up to 6 years. The hair then falls out and another grows in its place. The length of a person's hair depends on the length of the growing phase of the follicle. Follicles are active for 2 to 6 years; they rest for about 3 months after that. A person becomes bald if the scalp follicles become inactive and no longer produce new hair. Thick hair grows out of large follicles; narrow follicles produce thin hair.
The color of a person's hair is determined by the amount and distribution of melanin in the cortex of each hair (the same melanin that's found in the epidermis). Hair also contains a yellow-red pigment; people who have blonde or red hair have only a small amount of melanin in their hair. Hair becomes gray when people age because pigment no longer forms.
Nails grow out of deep folds in the skin of the fingers and toes. As epidermal cells below the nail root move up to the surface of the skin, they increase in number, and those closest to the nail root become flattened and pressed tightly together. Each cell is transformed into a thin plate; these plates are piled in layers to form the nail. As with hair, nails are formed by keratinization. When the nail cells accumulate, the nail is pushed forward.
The skin below the nail is called the matrix. The larger part of the nail, the nail plate, looks pink because of the network of tiny blood vessels in the underlying dermis. The whitish crescent-shaped area at the base of the nail is called the lunula.
Fingernails grow about three or four times as quickly as toenails. Like hair, nails grow more rapidly in summer than in winter. If a nail is torn off, it will regrow if the matrix isn't severely injured. White spots on the nail are sometimes due to temporary changes in growth rate.
Some of the things that can affect the skin, nails, and hair are described below.
The term dermatitis refers to any inflammation (swelling, itching, and redness) possibly associated with the skin. There are many types of dermatitis, including:
In addition to these diseases and conditions, the skin can be injured in a number of ways. Minor scrapes, cuts, and bruises heal quickly on their own, but other injuries — severe cuts and burns, for example — require medical treatment.
Reviewed by: Yamini Durani, MD
Date reviewed: May 2015
© 2019 Brenner | Site Policies & Statements
The information on this Website is for general informational purposes only and SHOULD NOT be relied upon as a substitute for sound professional medical advice, evaluation or care from your physician or other qualified healthcare provider. If you have a medical problem or a health-related question, consult your physician or call Health On-Call at 336-716-2255 or 1-800-446-2255.


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Belur (Kannada: ಬೇಲೂರು) is a historic town in Hassan district of Karnataka state.
The historic town Belur, one of the monuments of Karnataka, is beautifully set on banks of Yagachi river, amidst lush surroundings, in Hassan district of Karnataka. It was formerly known as Velapuri and was chosen as the alternate capital city by the Hoysala's after the ransacking and destruction of their then capital Dwarasumudra (now known as Halibeedu or Halibidu) by the sultans of the Northern India.Hoysalas ruled the Deccan and the parts of present day Tamilnadu, between 11th and 13th Centuries. The Hoysala dynasty is said to have been named after the words 'Hoy Sala'- Hoy means 'Strike', Sala is the name of a legendary leader called 'Sala'. Sala is said to have killed a lion which was ready to pounce on a meditating Guru Sudatta Muni who in turn blessed him by giving him the power to rule. By virtue of this heroic act he becomes the leader of the tribe and gradually emerges as the king. The Sala symbol was King Vishnuvardhana's creation and became the Hoysala symbol or crest, from his time.
The main entrance to the Chennakesava temple complex is crowned by an ornate gopuram or tower, built in the Vijayanagara style. Within the complex, the main temple of Chennakesava lies in the centre, facing east, flanked on its right by the Kappe Chennigaraya temple, and a small Lakshmi shrine. Set back on its left is an Andal or Ammanavara temple. There are two graceful Garuda sthambhas, or pillars, in the main courtyard. The sthambha facing the main temple was built in the Vijayanagara period, and the one to the right of the temple was built by the Hoysalas.
Being patrons or art and architecture, during their 300 year reign Hoysalas have built numerous temples and monuments. Belur is the best of the Hoysala creation. The magnificent monument of Belur, the awesome architecture and splendid sculptures makes it heaven on earth, therefore called the 'modern Vaikuntha (heaven) on earth'
Belur and Halibeedu are Jewels in the Indian cultural heritage.
Myths and Legend:
King Vishnuvardhana is supposed to have dreamt about Lord Chennakesava while on a night stay in Baba Budan Forest decided to construct the temple at Belur. By doing so he unwitting separated the Lord from his consort living in the forest of Baba Budan. It's believed that the lord visits his consort daily, therefore the local cobbler community presents s fresh pair of sandals daily and it disappears by night after being presented to the lord.
A number of languages are spoken around here that reflects the cultural diversity of Karnataka. Kannada is the official state language but English is also widely understood, so communication shouldn't be much of a problem.
Get in[edit]
By Air[edit]
The nearest international airport is Mangalore (168 Km) with connections to most destinations in the Middle-east region. However, a bigger and better airport with plentiful taxi services is Bangalore International Airport (232 Km).
By Rail[edit]
Nearest Railway Station is Hassan (HAS, 37 Km). It has connections to Bangalore, Mangalore and Mysore.
By Road[edit]
It takes around five hours to drive the 233 km from Bangalore to Belur via Nelamangala, Kunigal, Chennarayapatna and Hassan.
Driving from Mangalore via Dharmastala and Mudigere is over a very beautiful ghat road, with many water falls, lovely hill side views and numerous tea estates. This route is a windy mountain road and appropriate time should be budgeted for it.
Both at Belur and Halebedu, there is a day parking fee to park your vehicle (or taxi) in front of the temple.
By Bus[edit]
Belur is connected by regular buses to
By Package Tour[edit]
One day package tours leaving from Bengaluru (and Mysuru?) are offered by private operators and the Karnataka State Tourism Development Corporation (KSTDC) almost every day. These include visits to Belur, Halebid and Shravanabelagola. The tours by KSTDC run daily in season (April to June and Sept to Nov) and four times a week the rest of the year. They have the advantage that a luxury four-seats-across bus is used, whereas the private companies use small, bumpy (especially if sitting in the back) minibuses.
Get around[edit]
If you want to book the KSTDC tour make sure you book on a weekend as the volvo buses are only available on Sat and Sun. On all the other days Non AC buses ply to these places.
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The following temples are open daily between 7:30AM and 5:30PM.
Inner Sanctum of main deity stays closed from 10 to 11 AM, 1 to 3 PM, 5 to 5.30 PM.
Many government-approved tour guides can be hired to show around the temple for Rs 125-250.
Chenna Kesava Temple:
This magnificent temple of Chenna Keshava (literally meaning 'Handsome Keshava' in the Kananda language) is dedicated to Lord Vijayanarayana, one of the twenty four incarnations of Vishnu. King Vishnuvardhana and the Hoysalas built the temple to commemorate the victory of the Hoysalas over the Cholas in the battle of Talakkad or he may have had a specific purpose in mind in constructing this temple. He was a subordinate of the western Chalukyas who later declared his independence from them. By liberating himself from their political authority, he also wanted to excel them in their own field. The result was the remarkable temple which certainly overshadowed the Chalukyan achievements in the field of arts.
The famous Belur and Halebeedu Temples were built by him. During his reign a baffling 1500 temples were built in 958 locations out of which only 100 survive today. Vishnuvardhana was also known as "Bittideva". In one of the first inscriptions engraved in this temple, Vishnuvardhana says that he has "built it from the wealth which he amassed from the sword". He says that the main temple was built to celebrate his liberation from the Chalukyas. It was a declaration of his sovereign status.
That is why he called the deity Vijayanarayana, a name later changed to Chennakeshava. Later myths suggest that he built this temple after he was converted back to Hinduism (Vaishnavism) by Sri Ramanujacharya. But the records do not support this. He built three temples in this complex - the Vijayanarayana, the Keshava and the Lakshmi Narayana.
The construction of the of the visually stunning Chennakeshava temple was commenced in 1116 A.D. by the greatest ruler of this empire the Hoysala King Vishnuvardhana Raya, furthered by his son Narasimha Raya and later on completed by his grandson- Veera Ballala. During the time of Veera Ballala, the Vasudaeva, a pushkarani the grainary (Dhanyaagaara), and the sacred kitchen (Paka shaalaa) were constructed. It took 103 years to complete this spectacularly sculptured temple. The temple is about 100 feet high and has a magnificent threshold or Gopuram. Its inner walls are adorned with sculptured stories from the Puranas, the Upanishads and the epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata.
Belur is the first temple built after the Hoysalas became an independent dynasty. The artistic vocabulary is still Chalukyan because the artists are Chalukyan. The walls are still not over-decorated, but in later temples this changes. Since the Hoysalas wanted to better the Chalukyas they did this in diffrent ways. Over-decoration may be the result of this.
Darpana Sundari (Lady with the mirror) carved on walls of Belur temple is one of the major attractions. A number of bracket figures, portraying celestial nymphs or Madanikas singing and dancing, are sculpted on the walls of this temple. All these nimble figures are said to have been inspired by the sublime beauty of Shantala Devi, Queen of King Vishnuvardhana.
The madanika or the salabhanjika concept is very old, going back to Sanchi and the Buddhist legends. There is a fascinating symbolism that links the chaste maiden with the sala tree through the rite called dohada, or the fertilisation of plant life through the contact with women.
The madanika concept drifted away from the main theme, and in course of time the madanikas became decorative pieces, put at an angle in the temples, so that those who circumambulate the temple could look at them and enjoy them. They served a specific architectural purpose as bracket figures. We rarely come across erotic madanika figures, but there may be nudes here and there. They also exhibit artistic skill, for example, as musicians, instrumentalists, drummers and dancers.
Inside The Temple
The large navarang mandapum (hall) is noted for its polished pillars and ceiling. The pillars are of three different sizes Each pillar has a unique and distinctive shape and beautiful carved designs. The stone pillars show perfectly cylindrical carving as well as square and rectangular sections in the same post. They exhibit a high level of dimensional symmetry and point to a level of technology equal to lathe machines today. The most notable pillars are - The Mohini Pillar on the south west, fluted vertically, on a sixteen pointed star plan. The Eastern side of the pillar has a large bas-relief of lord Vishnu in the enchanting form of Mohini.
This elaborate temple complex is enclosed by the high walls; it has a garbha griha (sanctum sanctorum), a Sukhanasi (vestibule) and navaranga mandapa. The complex has many small shrines, mandapas and other structures. There are two thresholds or gateways, but only one has a gopuram and it was built during the time of Harihara Raya, (1935 AD) that one general by name Gunda Danda Naayaka. He raised the beautiful seven storeyed Gopuram (the top above trushold) to the temple out of stones and burnt bricks, bound by lime mortar, after the original Mahadwara was burnt by Ganga Salar, an officer of Tughalak during the invasion and seizure of the shrine.
Like all typical Hoysala temples, the Chenna Keshava has a star shaped structural plan set on an elevated platform, in the center of spacious paved courtyard surrounded by subsidiary shrines and colonnades. The towering vimanam above the sanctum was built by brick and mortar, supported by word work and covered with copper plates, gilded with gold. The crumbling Vimanam had to be dismantled in 1879 to protect the main sanctum.
The squat structures of the Chenna Keshava are more humanly conceived in scale than those in other soaring south Indian temples. The intricate carvings and sculptures indicate that the Hoysalas loved music and dance and used it to express religion and spirituality. The temple is still active and you can actually worship in the temple. Poojas are performed in the morning and evening - a tradition being practiced for over 887 years.
Since it took three generations and 103 years to complete the structure, there were many sculptors involved and credited with the completion. There are some inscriptions that mention the names - and the most well known amongst them are Dasoja, Malligna, Padari Malloja, Chikka Hampa, Nagoja, Kencha Malligna and Dasoja's son Chavana.
The temples of Belur and Halebeedu were carved from what's called as the soap stone (steatite) quarried from present day Tumkur some 200 km away. Steatite stones are extremely versatile and easy to chisel, but attain iron like qualities when exposed to atmosphere. The Belur structures are chemical washed and wax polished to maintain them once every ten years.
Kappe (Frog) Chennigaraya Temple:
This small shrine resembling the main temple is located south of the main sanctum. It is dedicated to Kappe Chennigaraya and was consecrated by Shantala Devi, the queen of King Vishnuvardhana. The impressive idol of Lord Kappe Chennigaraya was installed about the same time, when Keshava idol was installed in the main temple.
The Legend
Chennigaraya idol is associated with an interesting legend. It is said that the famous sculptor, Jakanachari from Kaidala (Kridapura) village of Tumkur district was given the responsibility of sculpting this shrine. According to the legend, Jakanachari left his village to build the temple before his son Dankanachari was born. Dankanachari grew up to a young man and realized that his father was engaged to sculpt the Chennigaraya Temple by the King. So when he went to see him, Jakanachari was found sculpting the presiding deity.
Dankanachari interrupted his father and informed him that the stone he was working on was defective. The master sculptor was taken aback and was furious at the young stranger, not realizing that it was his son. Jakanachari wowed that he would cut his hand if the young man proved that the stone was defective.
The young man smeared sandalwood paste all over the image and when it dried, a small portioned remained moist at the navel. When that portion was tapped and chiseled, some water, sand and a frog trickled out. Humbled, the sculptor cut his right hand before the stranger (his son) could stop him. Dankanachari revealed his identity as the son who came in search of his father. It is believed that since then the main idol is known as the Kappe (Frog) Chennigaraya.
The story further goes thus. Jakanachari was directed by a vision to build a shrine to Lord Keshava in his native village. When he followed his divine vision and returned to his village, his right hand got restored and therefore his native village was known as Kaidala or the restored hand.
The Kappe Chennigaraya has two sanctums, one for Chennigaraya and other for Venugopala. Other features are that it has five niches in the hall and enshrines sculptures of Ganesha, Saraswathi, Lakshmi-Narayana, Lakshmi Sridhara and Durga.
The Gravity Pillar or The lamp Post:
A few more special additions were accommodated during the reign of the rulers of Vijaya Nagara following the decline of the Hoysalas. And then during the reign of King Devaraaya his commander Bice Dandanaayaka (1414 AD) prepared and installed the unique 42 feet tall lamp post, the Karthika Deepotsava Stambha. The "foundationless" or "baseless" post is simply placed over a stone platform, this tall monolithic granite column is symbolic of the excellence of architectural science possessed by the Vijaya Nagara reign architects. Even today this column, by its stature and stability, baffles the visitors from the world over. It is supposed to be standing on its own dead weight, therefore it is also called "The Gravity Pillar".
Chenna Keshava Temple is surrounded by Kappe Chennigaraya Temple on the south and Veera Narayana temple on the west and other shrines and mantapas within the main temple complex:
Veera Narayana Temple:
The small but beautiful shrine is located to the west of Chenna Keshava temple and is dedicated to Veera Narayana or Lakshmi Narayana. Its outer walls are decorated with large images, the most impressive is an image on the western wall showing three crowned heads believed to be the three divinities - Vijaya Narayana (old name for Keshava image) Chenna Keshava or Chennigaraya and Lakshmi Narayana (the old name for Veera Narayana image)
The Big Tank or Vishnu Samudra:
The big tank of Belur is known as Vishnu Samudra. It was built during the time of Narasimha Raya under the circumspection of Padmarasa. Later, in the so called golden age or the Vijaya Nagara regin, viz., the time of Krishna Devaraya, a chief by name Basappa Naayaka of Utpatanahalli made the north end of Vishnu Samudra quadrangular, arranged comfortable steps on all three sides to climb down to edge of the water and thus converted it into a comfortable Pushkarni for the devotees to use the sacred water in it in a sacred way for the daily austerities. He also built an island mantapa in the midst of the Pushkarani for the sake of the sacred Float Festival and choultries too on the banks of the tank for the camping facilities of travelers that would visit for partaking in the different festivals and poojas of the place. These can be found even today.
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Main thing to see are the temples. No other major activity to do here though. The temple it self takes up most of your time.
Make sure you take a camera along, these historic monuments and sculptures make interesting visual delights and are worth capturing. The guides that you get at Belur and Halibidu are ok. Some part of what they tell you is made up but the other part is actual history.
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As you exit the temple you may be approached by vendors stalking you to try and sell various books, trinkets and other souvenirs.
You get some nice bronze and stone statuettes that you can buy as souvenirs. There is nothing much to shop about in this temple town.
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Indian Native Food From Hassan- Central Karnataka's Favorite Food:
Hassan Is now one of the major travel destination in Karnataka and that means it has large variety of foods served from the highway restaurants to the multi cuisine eateries. Coffee is the main crop of this region, and also farmers grow black pepper, potato, raagi, paddy and sugarcane.
There are few delicious food which are unique to Hassan- Raagi Mudde or the Raagi Ball meal is a hot favorite dish of Hassan. Some of the rice items like Puliyogare, Sakre Pongal are very common in this region.
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Drink Filter Coffee in South India:
There is no such thing as black coffee or tea in South India. Or it's not generally served in restaurants. It's a made to order thing. South Indian Coffee is in unlike coffee in the west with whitener or cream.
They call it Filter Coffee or Filter Kaapi in South India and instead of whitener they add cow's milk. It's such a favorite drink and a cultural icon in Tamilnadu, Andra Pradesh and Karnataka, mostly served in a tumbler set called dabarah. The coffee is drunk from the tumbler, but is often cooled first with a "dabarah" (also pronounced in some regions as 'davarah')- a wide metal saucer with lipped walls.
It is customary to serve coffee to visitors. The best coffee beans in India are grown in Karnataka and in Hassan District.
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Good Hotels are also available at Hassan.
At Hassan you can stay at any of the following Hotels:-
Hoysala Village Resort is located on Belur - Chikmagalur Highway. The resort has 33 rooms, out of which 29 are Standard rooms and 4 Suites. The amenities provided are Doctor on call, Travel desk, Laundry service, Swimming pool, Car parking and Conference hall. The resort also has an in-house restaurant and a bar. The resort provides sightseeing packages to the tourists
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Scherschmidt, who launched OBIOX on Feb. 1, 2007, first learned about the economic theory of behavioral finance as a Harvard MBA student. When working under portfolio manager Joel Dobberpuhl of Jetstream Capital, a Tennessee hedge fund that has since closed, Scherschmidt learned to apply the theory as a stock picker.
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Asked how he and his team resist their own behavioral biases, Scherschmidt answered: "Ah! One of my favorite questions. I and my team are human, and we can fall into the same traps. So once a quarter, we reread Ariely's book, and on a day-to-day basis, when a team member makes a stock recommendation, one of the other team members plays devil's advocate. We're always challenging each other. We have fun at the job. My colleagues challenge me, too, and it's always fun to challenge the boss."
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KDE Ships First 4.7 Beta
KDE has released a first beta of the upcoming 4.7 release of the Plasma Desktop and Netbook workspaces, the KDE Applications and the KDE Frameworks, which is planned for July 27, 2011. With API, dependency and feature freezes in place, the KDE team's focus is now on fixing bugs and further polishing new and old functionality.
The 4.7 release will bring a number of exciting improvements:
To download source code or packages to install go to the 4.7 Beta1 Info Page.
The link to the "4.7 Beta1
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By Anonymous at Wed, 2011/05/25 - 2:28pm
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By Anonymous at Wed, 2011/05/25 - 4:00pm
Dolphin historial and split
Will Dolphin finally have a damn historial like any common sense made browser on earth does, or are we going to be forced once more to click 9 times the "back" arrow if we want to go back 9 steps?
Regards and thanks a lot for your hard work, even if paying attention to users (these features have been requested several times in the forum and bugs.kde) seems to cause hives to some devs.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2011/05/25 - 5:53pm
Amen, but...
I think you are right, Dolphin has some design defects that some people have remarked and devs continue ignoring, but your sarcastic tone won't help devs to change their minds.
By Anonymous at Tue, 2011/05/31 - 2:31pm
What about PIM? It was already promised a year ago. I am eagerly waiting for the new KMail, especially for IMAP IDLE. And I hope that my address book, recently used addresses, and LDAP will work flawlessly together.
Also pim.kde.org isn't really helpful, I guess my address book problems might be easy to solve.
Will there be a new KMail in 4.7?
Otherwise congratulations for the new release. I love KDE!
By Anonymous at Wed, 2011/05/25 - 6:26pm
KDEPIM 4.6 RC1 has just been
KDEPIM 4.6 RC1 has just been released, and hopefully the final 4.6 release will happen next month for early adopters. Then KDEPIM will return to the standard KDE release cycle with 4.7 which should be good for most users.
By odysseus at Wed, 2011/05/25 - 7:51pm
as far as I know kde 4.7 is
as far as I know kde 4.7 is the first kde 4 release that support multiple x (one X per screen). I feature I needed sin xrander etc dont support 2 graphics cards.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2011/05/26 - 6:18am
What you mean by "one X per
What you mean by "one X per screen"?
Does that mean it would support:
As already it has been possible to have 2) but not 1)
By Anonymous at Mon, 2011/06/06 - 7:49pm
Please add some more info, and links are broken!
I want you to look at the two following issues:
- the links on the downloadpage are broken. They point to stable/4.6.3.
- please add some more info about new list of packages, this list is much bigger than it was. I still see kdelibs, kdeworkspace etc. but also a lot more. What has happened??
By Anonymous at Thu, 2011/05/26 - 7:10am
Hear, let's do something really useful...
Please, instead of many glittering announces in this horrible marketing-style language (better this, faster that, and flexible, vitual, proactive user experience and the like)... just tell us that in 4.7 you will finally throw Akonadi, Nepomuk, and the whole semantic shit outside the window (or AT LEAST disabled by default), and make your userbase really happy.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2011/05/27 - 8:06pm
I'm part of the userbase, and
I'm part of the userbase, and "Akonadi, Nepomuk, and the whole semantic shit" is what I'm looking forward the most in KDE development. I can't wait for it to mature and its potential to be fully explored by desktop and applications. There's quite a few lightweight DE's these days, if that's what you want feel free to use them.
By Jorge Adriano at Fri, 2011/05/27 - 9:14pm
I have been a KDE user since
I have been a KDE user since 1.0. It was raw as hell but far more solid than any KDE4 has ever been.
If you can wait for new technologies to mature and consolidate WHILE you are using it, crash after crash, slowdown after slowdown, crap after crap, good for you.
I now need a KDE4 at least resembling a beta if not a GM. If it's not possible, or, as you say, not even wanted, I'll take the advice and go for the lightweight.
Sorry, and so long.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2011/05/27 - 10:00pm
I have also been a KDE user
I have also been a KDE user since 1.0, in fact pre 1.0. Again, if you want a simple and solid desktop, there are quite a few available. Why not use those instead of complaining about KDE not being the kind of desktop you want?
Personally my desktop usage is rather basic at this point. I've had no crashes nor CPU problems with 4.6.3. To me it feels rock solid if all you require is the functionality of a simple desktop. And I've got both enabled, Nepomuk and Strigi. But if you have problems with them why not just disable them?
Quite frankly, some time ago I stopped using KDE due to issues with nvidia's 260.x driver series. I moved to LXDE and it didn't bother me much. I missed some desktop effects which are rather functional, and I missed being able to find pdf's by pressing Alt+F2 and typing related info (author, or title or whatever). That was pretty much it. So these are the kind of things that keep me a KDE user at this point. So, for the last time, if you all you want is something basic and rock solid, just pick one from the many available.
By Jorge Adriano at Sat, 2011/05/28 - 9:37am
I agree.
I must notice here that a negative opinion about Nepomuk and Akonadi is allowed, and does not have to mean you have to go somewhere else.
I agree that Akonadi is not very useful for me. All the contacts, and email is done via the web, so a local daemon storing data in a local database is not very usefull for me.
I think that there are a lot of users having this data on the "net" instead of local.
By Anonymous at Sat, 2011/05/28 - 10:55am
That's one of the biggest
That's one of the biggest challenges the KDE community faces. Any motivated kid can join the project and start submitting patches and making architectural decision completely ignoring the voice of long time users. I have been using KDE since pre 1.0 too, doing my part as beta tester and submitting many many bugs reports. However, when I criticize some of the recent decisions I get told to shut up or start coding by people who have been involved with KDE for just 2 or three years.
KDE is introducing way more bugs than it can fix, and the whole metadata thing is terribly ill-conceived. At least make all those dubious features optional. I have no way to really disable akonadi without recompiling KDE, and every time I log in, I'm being greeted by a message telling me that strigi or nepomuk is disabled and that I'm missing many wonder features, WTF!!
By trixl at Sat, 2011/05/28 - 11:10am
I used KDE since 1999... I had it running on sun ultrasparc stations -- And I had to compile and install it as a user, and run it from /tmp: good times :). So there.
I have the KDEPIM beta running on a machine and the older version running on another. And I am really looking forward to the day where both run akonadi: it is so much faster. IMAP PUSH is a game changer. People complaining about akonadi really complain about the essentially non-working (as in doing nothing) version that shipped a while ago. But the version in trunk is just _good_.
Also, I really like the nepomuk integration: I like typing alt-F2 and some filename, and having the system retrieve the email with the right attachment. Of course, I like to think my files are well organised. But I have literally hundreds of thousands of them!
Also, you are really complaining about a pop-up, which clearly should not be there, as it clearly is not user friendly. But this has nothing to do with the architecture. I am sorry, but how is it that an old user should be listened to about software user versus a young developer? This makes no sense. Users can legitimately complain about crashes, interface blunders, missing functionality, but they should shut up about architecture decisions. If they knew about architecture, they would be developers!
By Anonymous at Sat, 2011/05/28 - 9:27pm
>If they knew about
>If they knew about architecture, they would be developers!
I think there are more full time professional developers among the KDE users than among the KDE developers...
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 3:23pm
>If they knew about
>If they knew about architecture, they would be developers!
I think there are more full time professional developers among the KDE users than among the KDE developers...
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 3:24pm
Or you get buried by negative
Or you get buried by negative scores, like here.
By Anonymous at Thu, 2011/06/02 - 1:55pm
I am just sorry because 3.x
I am just sorry because 3.x has been an excellent experience: fast, solid, and still stuffed with good features and clever hacks.
That is: nothing like KDE4.
My every day experience with 4.6.3: Plasma crashes every once and than (have to restart KDE), kwin crashes every once and than (have to restart kwin and loose session), aurorae corrupt the screen (have to restart kwin and loose session), phonon continues the silly "new hardware detected", "old hardware disappeared" over and over, Kopete duplicates my contacts every time the jabber server has some problem, knotify goes berserk giving me tens of old messages altogether every once and then. Powerdevil simply and plain doesn't work, Device notifier thinks I'm missing something in dbus but doesn't say what, and I could go on and on and on for hours.
And then Kontact... my dear, what once was the better e-mail client around: takes all of my CPU for ~20min half the times I start it, and sometimes closes without even a warning and sometimes kio_pop3 just hangs (and you think that you have no mail, because there is no warning). At every restart Kontact thinks there is another Kontact running, or find Akonadi stopped, and complain, or mysql gets corrupted, or starts full reindexing of all my emails (= workstation unuseable for minutes) or creates undeletable duplicates of new messages in the INBOX... AND. SO. ON.
And this, on each one of the different notebooks and wokstations (mostly opensuse, but kubuntu does not seem any better) we use at work.
Not to speak about components which has never reached the feature completeness of their KDE3 counterparts (kprinter an ksysguard comes to mind). After how many years? 5? 6?
Just a last note for the oldies. I complain because I truly miss the "we can do better than CORBA in 1 day" attitude.
But, I know, creating new frameworks and buses is much much funnier than the dirty job of writing code that actually do something, or (gasp!) fixing bugs.
Before you start, I know the songs: "it's opensource, fix it yourself" and "there's plenty of alternatives, choose one".
By Anonymous at Sat, 2011/05/28 - 11:30am
Seriously, as far as Kontact is concerned if you think it was somehow better back in the 3.x days, well, I don't know how you could come to that conclusion. I use it daily and have so for years, and yes it still crashes and misbehaves but much less than it used to in my experience. The level of performance is largely unchanged as far as I have noticed.
We (as KDE users) also are on the cusp of a new KDEPIM which has given the developers a chance to fix many of the architectural problems that cause the performance issues that have plagued Kontact/KMail up to this point. I haven't personally tried it yet but I have confidence it will live up to the promise.
By Paul Eggleton at Wed, 2011/06/01 - 12:59pm
I know what OP is saying
I know what OP is saying about Kontact...
Performance-wise Kontact 4 is by far slower on my new core i7 notebook than Kontact 3 has ever been on my old Centrino (I still have both, I tried) on filtering, moving mail, syncing with OpenXchange and so on. Plenty of RAM, fast HD, etc, etc. The hardware is not the problem.
And as far as stability is concerned, I have quite the same problems of the OP: The good old "Kontact is already running" is just a nag, but kio_pop3 locking without warning is really a PITA.
And, yes, it crashes! It crashes so much more than Kontact 3! Exactly while I was writing this, my colleague's Kontact closed by itself. Once again. Not a warning, not a log, nothing.
So now we have another major rewrite. I learnt the hard way, during my career as software developer, that major rewrites are more often part of the problem than part of the solution. Major rewrites requires major bugfixing, and I think we have already not enough of it.
That said, I really, really hope to be wrong, because I'm a long time KDE supporter
By Vajsvarana at Wed, 2011/06/01 - 2:16pm
Try Nouveau.
My experience with NVIDIA 260.x drivers has also been pathetic, but, instead of switching to LXDE, I did four things.
1. Installed Fedora 15 in my main PC.
That was like grabbing the bull by the horns, but I stayed with KDE and gave the NVIDIA driver the boot. My mileage and my performance has been good so far, and Nouveau is a lot better than NVIDIA driver in the stability dept.; I miss Warzone 2100, but at least I can maximize Konsole or start a GTK+ 3 app without a kernel panic.
By Anonymous at Fri, 2011/06/03 - 2:06am
The day I can type alt-f2, and a string, and have a list of attachments pop-up, I'll accept that lighter desktops have caught up.
But that day will never come, as that is only possible through integration and frameworks... In the mean time, if you need an application launcher, enlightenment is for you.
By Anonymous at Sat, 2011/05/28 - 9:32pm
That does not seem true.
That does not seem true. After my laptop fried a few weeks back, I had to work on my previous laptop for two weeks, a 6 year laptop with a 1.2Ghz Athlon XP processors and 512Mbyte RAM(!). After disabling nepomuk KDE4 worked perfectly smooth.
Chromium couldn't run because it used too much memory for each tab, but konqueror worked fine, even H264 movies through flash work in full-screen work on this old beast.
KDE4 is a lot less bloated than you think. I don't even hate KDE4, are I was surprised it worked so well.
By Anonymous at Wed, 2011/06/01 - 1:18pm
if you're not excited about the very cool features KDE4 will have in the future, and don't particularly want to take part of them, then you probably shouldn't be using it.
If you've used KDE for a while and you're familiar with it, why don't you just stick to KDE3?
By Anonymous at Sat, 2011/06/04 - 6:27am
You rock :)
Just checking out the new stuff after installing the beta from Archlinux [kde-unstable] repo.
Thanks for your great work :)
By Anonymous at Sat, 2011/05/28 - 10:10pm
How are you going? How is KDE
How are you going? How is KDE 4.7 behaving on Arch?
By Ernesto Manríquez at Sat, 2011/06/04 - 4:34am
You lost me
I'm using KDE since 1.x (on Suse, what was it, 7?). I've donated money, bought T-Shirts, supported it in my peer group whenever I felt it was necessary.
Three weeks ago, my harddisk crashed and I was forced to do a clean re-install on a new drive. So I had the opportunity to try out different distributions.
I used to use Debian and then Kubuntu a lot. However, KDE in Kubuntu really has a bad performance overall (sluggish, un-elegant). Remembering the "good old times", I tried Opensuse. Installation was great, default configuration was way better then Kubuntu... but... it was still sluggish.
Yes, I know the answers:
Guess what - I know that I can configure it. I have filed bug reports. I like the ideas behind the introduced technologies. But I'm really fed up of fiddling around, of messing with new technologies that simply do not work at all, of failing in the area of basic features while adding more and more stuff on top of them.
End of story - I installed Ubuntu 11.04 with unity. While it is not perfect it does not demand heavy tweaking. It has lesser features than KDE but they are of high quality. It has the amount of polish no KDE-installation has ever provided (and I'm using it since 1.x...).
I've never thought that it will come this far, I don't want to discourage anyone of you, I'm even a bit sad because I still somehow love KDE and the folks behind it, but KDE (and Amarok, by the way) has lost me. I just can't do actual work with it anymore. I just can't. For now, I give up.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 10:15am
In KDE-3 there were lots of
In KDE-3 there were lots of killer applications that moved people to use KDE or at least to have it installed on disk. There is no such thing in KDE-4... every single non-trivial application is unpolished, slow and unreliable. Don't tell me that the problems will be solved in future releases etc. etc. We are already at KDE 4.6.3 and even simple things like the panels and notifications still suck. Seriously, if we cannot get the notifications to be consistently displayed at the correct place after almost 4 years of development, how in hell is KDE going to fix more complicated issues? We are doing through a dark age...
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 3:22pm
>cannot get the notifications
>cannot get the notifications to be consistently displayed at the correct place
yes :) the funny thing is that I started receiving this issue with 4.6.3 "bugfix" release - it seemed to be ok in 4.6.2
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 10:49pm
Nothing like it
Funny, my experience, in several (very different) machines, is NOTHING like yours.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 4:41pm
Seccond that
It's odd that myself and thousands of other users do not see those issues. People are happily using the great functional and performing KDE Plasma desktop every day, and many have done so for quite a while. The biggest issues I currently see are Konquerors seemingly inability to handle java applets and a crashing nspluginviewer brought on by the latest OpenSuse Flash update.
Based on the huge number of KDE users out there and the graveness of the problems the parent poster describe, it rather clearly illustrates that such problems are far from widespread. Otherwise the KDE community should be drowning in reports abut it. And one should guess some of the developers using it daily should have noticed too.
Or one could venture to guess the poster is a troll. Could be wrong, but he touches all the usual things that are trolled about when it comes to KDE 4. Strigi, Nepomuk, Amarok, Akonadi, Plasma, activities and polish/user interface guidelines. Could be a regular user with talent for messing up his install, but some of those complaints sounds very odd. Like the zooming out interface to activities, did that not that way of doing activities go away in 4.5(at least 4.6)? Or the PIM problem caused by Akonadi, since the akonadified PIM are not actually released yet. Installed beta software of something he "don't want to mess around with"?
By Morty at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 8:12pm
Not trolling
I'm no trolling here. As I stated above, I use KDE a long time now. And I am able to fix things on my own if I have to. And yes, these are fairly generic issues that are adressed very often. But: That could be a sign that these problems *do* exist...
Opensuse 11.4 does introduce akonadi. No "beta software" installed by me. Having Kontact display my google calendar was a nightmare to configure on Opensuse 11.4 compared to one click in evolution.
I could go on, but one issue is (at least for me) the most important: Side by side comparison of Kubuntu 11.04 and Ubuntu 11.04. As a long-time KDE user, I was shocked - shocked because of the amount of polish the Unity/Gnome Desktop offers compared to KDE. I have *never* imagined that I would someday switch my desktop from KDE to something else after frigging 10 years (isn't that proof enough that there is something wrong?). It may have less features, it may have less sophisticated technology, but it works out of the box. It delivers. KDE promises. This makes me sad, believe me.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 9:09pm
Hey, I feel your pain. Polish is an issue in many area's. There is big progress - Strigi and Nepomuk used to cause me issues but no more these days. Both on my laptop, desktop and media center they work fine and are starting to become useful.
Akonadi doesn't cause issues either but I don't run the experimental KMail2 versions yet. I've tried them and know they will cause me issues - they are quite a bit slower for now so I'll probably just have to stay on KMail 1.x for the time being. Then again, I do look forward to real improvements in KMail again - there hasn't been much change in the last few years due to the work on Akonadi.
Activities I don't use either but I applaud the KDE devs for trying new things.
And you must admit Plasma is darn good these days. I have no instability, reasonable resource usage and a convenient, flexible interface. And KWin really rocks!
So surely, it's not all perfect but many things are VERY GOOD at least. KTorrent works great, choqok is fine, Amarok is getting better, Konversation does what it is supposed to do. I do look forward to a better browser, Rekonq wasn't there last time I tried it and I'm still on Firefox & Chromium. Calligra is going in good directions, Krita is aweseome. Dolphin just does what it is supposed to do - works great for me. Kate is absolutely amazing...
So yes, things aren't perfect, but in many area's they are very good. And perfect I haven't found anywhere...
By Anonymous at Wed, 2011/06/01 - 10:35am
"It's odd that myself and
"It's odd that myself and thousands of other users do not see those issues. People are happily using the great functional and performing KDE Plasma desktop every day, and many have done so for quite a while."
Words of someone in denial. The reality is that most KDE users already left. I used to hate Gnome (and secretly still do) but at some point it stopped getting in my way and KDE started. I kept a KDE login for versions 4.1, 4.2, 4.4, 4.6 and I keep checking in on it's progress to see how things are going but I stopped using it years ago. I want so much to show new users (and especially MAC users) a really nice polished but still efficient Linux Desktop and we really don't have one. Gnome looks like crap, Unity is a train wreck and KDE could be good if it actually worked (and made sense). Sigh, such is life.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/06/26 - 10:08am
Nothing like it
Funny, my experience, in several (very different) machines, is NOTHING like yours.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 4:42pm
> I understand quantum
> I understand quantum physics but I don't understand activities
I'm 100% with this
By Anonymous at Mon, 2011/05/30 - 4:09pm
Plasma developer screencasts
Apparently quantum physics is different from Plasma Activities. I found these Activity videos with minimal online searching.
By Carl Symons at Mon, 2011/05/30 - 5:57pm
Already seen... the
Already seen... the unanswered question is not "what can I do with activities?" but "why on earth should I?"
By Anonymous at Tue, 2011/05/31 - 10:54am
Because horizontally and
Because horizontally and vertically dividing a working area and putting it inside tabs, that are grouped inside windows, that are grouped inside windows-groups, that are grouped inside multiple desktops, that are grouped in multiple screens is simply not enough. we need yet another abstraction level.
Insult deleted-editor
By trixl at Tue, 2011/05/31 - 12:33pm
you shouldn't
Activities are for people who want them. People who can't figure out how to use Activities are better off thinking about other things.
By Carl Symons at Tue, 2011/05/31 - 4:16pm
Less communication
There's been less communication with the user base also since, for example, the dot closed anonymous comments a while back (for reasonable reasons, but still it was an issue I think).
The above comment "You lost me" also reflects what I think about KDE lately. A lack of polish in general and over engineered solutions to vague problems.Trying new things is good, like plasma, but it's under used. How about having two default presets:
Another bug fixing & polishing only release (4.8?) would be more than welcomed IMHO.
Maybe KDE lacks a "benevolent dictator" to give it guidance and direction ?
By Francois at Wed, 2011/06/01 - 12:44pm
Anonymous comments
I don't disagree with your comments about polish (although "crazy desktop" is somewhat objectionable), but as you can see with this very article, anonymous comments on the dot have been re-enabled.
By Paul Eggleton at Wed, 2011/06/01 - 1:04pm
Lost me also
I'm a user since pre 1.0 and I'm in the same boat as you. I'm not against new technologies but the way these new technologies where introduced in kde seem to go against the philosophy of the project. I'm not against nepomuk, akonadi, and "the whole semantic shit", but making it very hard to remove from the system is wrong IMHO.
I don't care much about defaults, but we should be able to easily disable these components and still have a functioning system.
I'm now using KDE 3.5.12 (aka Trinity Desktop Environment 3.5.12).
By Anonymous at Thu, 2011/06/09 - 11:11pm
You lost me
I'm using KDE since 1.x (on Suse, what was it, 7?). I've donated money, bought T-Shirts, supported it in my peer group whenever I felt it was necessary.
Three weeks ago, my harddisk crashed and I was forced to do a clean re-install on a new drive. So I had the opportunity to try out different distributions.
I used to use Debian and then Kubuntu a lot. However, KDE in Kubuntu really has a bad performance overall (sluggish, un-elegant). Remembering the "good old times", I tried Opensuse. Installation was great, default configuration was way better then Kubuntu... but... it was still sluggish.
Yes, I know the answers:
Guess what - I know that I can configure it. I have filed bug reports. I like the ideas behind the introduced technologies. But I'm really fed up of fiddling around, of messing with new technologies that simply do not work at all, of failing in the area of basic features while adding more and more stuff on top of them.
End of story - I installed Ubuntu 11.04 with unity. While it is not perfect it does not demand heavy tweaking. It has lesser features than KDE but they are of high quality. It has the amount of polish no KDE-installation has ever provided (and I'm using it since 1.x...).
I've never thought that it will come this far, I don't want to discourage anyone of you, I'm even a bit sad because I still somehow love KDE and the folks behind it, but KDE (and Amarok, by the way) has lost me. I just can't do actual work with it anymore. I just can't. For now, I give up.
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 10:16am
keyboard layouts
what about keyboard layouts for instance dvorak or neo2. Its horrobile at the moment because no global shortkeys are working if dvorak or neo2 is chosen to be the first layout and "normal" german or "us" the second. If vice versa, the program specific shortcuts of ALL kde-programs are not working.
Because of this I had to switch to gnome3. No problems over there. I hope kde is going to fix this annoying bug.
ps. I reported the bug twice in the kde.bugzilla
By Anonymous at Sun, 2011/05/29 - 11:08pm


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