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TUX Magazine: Interview with Daniel Molkentin, Klik Explained
In its current issue, TUX Magazine interviews KDE core developer Daniel Molkentin. Daniel talks about the features in the just-released KDE 3.5 and explains the current plans and ongoing efforts for the next major KDE release, KDE 4.0. In the same issue, KDE's Jess Hall explains how Klik makes trying and using new applications easy.
what's so special about tux magazine ??
it is pretty unusual to offer a magazine in the 'net for free, and still ask for an a priori registration.
this smells fishy.
are them publishers then spamming my mailbox with advertisements praising arbitrary payware in return? are them address collectors harvesting my email address in exchange for a few cent?
above, the title page of that thingie looks much too polished to be true. i've yet to see a software running on linux that would be able to create such a layout. i could imagine that they use adobe indesign or quark express on windows or mac to produce it.
so what was the point of "tux" magazine, again?
By noobie at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: what's so special about tux magazine ??
They could be using Scribus, or many other programs. I don't believe I've gotten any spam from them (I generally make up an address at my website for each place I register, like [email protected]).
They apparently offer advertising in their magazine which is probably how they make their money. I really doubt they get enough subscribers to be able to sell them to spammers.
By Corbin at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: what's so special about tux magazine ??
it's done by the same people who do linux mag (or at least i hope i got the right publication.. i'm always mixing up those publications as they all have such similar names).
they are giving it away for free and keeping the publication costs low specifically to help promote and grow the open source desktop market while having a sustainable publication (ergo why it isn't on paper)
registration is a pretty low cost and i haven't gotten a single piece of spam due to it myself.
as for open source software that can do layouts that good, one would obviously point to scribus which fits the bill. however, i'd bet that they use more "traditional" tools since they are part of a larger and older publishing house.
for me the point of tux mag is to get nice user-level articles that average computer using people utilizing linux at home or in the SOHO would actually be interested in. that means being gui-centric and not much about writing software or the latest amazing enterprise server stuff.
less SAN, more iPod
By Aaron J. Seigo at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: what's so special about tux magazine ??
Its done by the same people that do Linux Journal & Linux Gazette (it says on the bottom of the site).
By Corbin at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: what's so special about tux magazine ??
Corbin, Aaron J.:
thanks for your replies. they clarified a few bits. even makes me confident to register my email there now. see, how I trust your testimonials? ;-)
By noobie at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: what's so special about tux magazine ??
It looks like it was made in a Dreamweaver template. you can run dreamweaver through crossover office, or one wine if you tweak the wine.conf and know which dll's to use. So it could have still be developed in linux on a windows application.
By JOe at Sun, 2005/12/04 - 6:00am
Re: what's so special about tux magazine ??
There are logins available at bugmenot (use the wonderful firefox plugin)
By Vicks at Sun, 2005/12/04 - 6:00am
Re: what's so special about tux magazine ??
you could use just about anything to create that layouy - it's just a case of how easy it would be
By mabinogi at Wed, 2005/12/07 - 6:00am
...and what's so special about klik?
... _that_ is the question _I_ ask myself.
After all, there is .rpm, .deb, .tar.gz, Autopackage, ZeroInstall, Gobo Linux and some more in the One Big Linux World. How do they differ from klik?
I'm pretty new to Linux (coming from a Windows programming background), and I've been looking at Linux packaging formats since early summer because my boss told me to prepare to lead a new software project next spring that is supposed to also offer value to Linux customers.
I read the klik FAQ linked above, but didn't grok it all. The FAQ avoids the comparison with the other formats.
Adding Linux to your supported platforms if you are an ISV is a pretty non-profitable business, if you ask me!
By heh at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
From the FAQ:
What good is klik then for?
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
Alrighty then.
But why can't I test bleeding edge releases and development version with one of the other package formats?
Why can't there be just _ONE_ package format??
By heh at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
Let me add a thing or two.
Don't get me wrong: I do not want to impose one package format, one window manager, one distribution onto this movement. I am aware that you love the freedom of choice this gives to you, and the freedom to experiment and research. I must admit that I am even attracted to this, your Freedom, as a person. I find it more and more fascinating.
But I also try to figure how to make a successful business based on Linux software development. The more I let myself be entangled by the fascinating sites of Linux, the less I think about business. I spend a day or two diving into some technical problem or learning a new lesson about this OS, forgetting the world around me... then some days later I awake with the sobering question in my mind "And how do we earn our livings with it?" Happened not only once to me in the last 5-6 months.
By heh at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
>how to make a successful business based on Linux software development.
That's a big question isn't it! The best way to answer it is to use some of your skills learned as a software developer, start with dividing the problem into manageable parts. If you remove the "Linux" from your question, you still have the hardest part of the question left. Linux does not change that bit, and it's no problem delivering proprietary solutions on Linux the same way you do on other platforms. Several companies do so successfully.
But on Linux you also have the opportunities and competition that is FLOSS. Making it perhaps little harder to get a good business model, but not much. Direct competition with FLOSS will require outstanding products, and it's perhaps not a good idea:-) For some products you may do dual licenses like MySQL or Qt. But the important thing to remember is that most software development is not abut writing one application and selling it, it's about delivering solutions. In that market a FLOSS license are really not an issue, afterall your customer will not be interrested in distributing the software. Most likely the only one interrested in such custom solutions are their competition, actually making it rather unlikely they will distribute. On the other hand FLOSS will give you possibilities to reduce development costs with lots of premade code.
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
Fell for the FUD? No offense, really, but the package format issue is mood IMHO. I hear it all the time, but I don't believe it, because I know it's BS. In case you don't know, there are quite a few commercial applications for Linux (my company is currently developing one as well, using Qt). Anyone not completely stupid won't create distro packages at all. There are distro-independent installers, like Loki installer (used by most Linux games, Crossover Office, and Nvidia drivers AFAIK). Then, there's InstallAnywhere, commercial, Java-based, used mostly for Java applications (eg Omnicore X-Develop). A few companies use hand-written custom installers (Softimage|XSI and ptc Pro/E, Pixel32). Or just use plain tgz archives (Apple, D2 Software, ifx).
Plus, there's only _one_ Shake and _one_ Softimage|XSI package for Linux (this is true for all the apps I mentioned), both should work on pretty much every distro starting at RedHat 7.3 - I've yet to see an incompatible distro.
And well, yes, the remaining 'issue' is the desktop environment. But why is that an issue? Ever noticed that even on Windows or OSX, most apps won't integrate at all? That almost every current application uses it's own HIG, design, style, color scheme and custom widget set anyway? Yes, Softimage|XSI uses Mainwin. It never looks or feels 'native', regardless of the desktop environment. But it works, copy and paste works, moving/ maximizing/ minimizing the application works, so hip hip who cares if it uses a different style and color scheme? If Softimage (or Mainwin) wanted to do it, they could at least parse a few config files and set the fonts and colors accordingly, but that wouln't make such a huge difference anyway...
By Willie Sippel at Sat, 2005/12/03 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
There are lots of different package formats because in the Free software world the packaging is the distribution's job. Not the vendor. The distribution authors know how their system works and how they want their system to work.
They are the ones that keep linux systems consistant. If everyone went around downloading .exe equivalents from developers' websites, everyone's systems would be a mess and be going wrong all the time.
Now, that can be a problem if you want to distribute proprietary software. Ransomware relies on you keeping it not freely available. So the distributions won't be able to package it for you and hold it on their repositories. Some people make the binaries frely avaliable but use a registration code system. I don't know , I'm not really interested in non-Free software. I suppose the answer is to keep the file layout of the software quite simple, so that installation/making packages is rather trivial.
"...then some days later I awake with the sobering question in my mind 'And how do we earn our livings with it?'"
You get paid to create the software by the person or organisation that needs it.
By Robert at Sun, 2005/12/04 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
I hope that KDE and Gnome will adopt something like Elektra in the future. When we have one flat registry, x-distribution thing will get a lot of easier.
By gerd at Mon, 2005/12/05 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
KConfig-XT is more better suited and already commonly used by many KDE applications!
By Hans Chen at Tue, 2005/12/06 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
Of course you can, but there are a few situations it is not possible or reasons you don't want to do it that way.
-The package are not available for your distribution/packageformat.
Klick is an addition to the package formats, think of it as a kind of sandbox rather than a plain install method.
_ONE_ package format would not really make a big difference, since in most cases you would have to deal with different libraries and compiler versions. Forcing you to make different packages for the different distributions anyway.
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
Klik is a self contained image, so you don't 'install' it or any of it's dependencies. Klik isn't suitable as a means of distributing things such as libraries (or anything else thats not directly run by the end user).
Using the system's normal package manager would mean you would have to update 1 or more packages on your system and if they are unstable, you would have to uninstall them and reinstall the old ones (which if it pulled in many new dependencies may not be very fun).
By Corbin at Fri, 2005/12/02 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
> Why can't there be just _ONE_ package format??
Desktop LSB + elektra --> one plattform in 4-5 yrs.
By gerd at Tue, 2005/12/06 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
"Why can't there be just _ONE_ package format?"
There's this inconvenient thing called "freedom". Because of it Fedora is not obligated to use Debian's package manager, or vice versa. There is no dictator telling distros and developers what package manager they must use.
By Brandybuck at Wed, 2005/12/07 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
Klik's main advantages over a "real" packaging system are:
Of course, not all of these goals are _quite_ realised yet, but that's the direction that they are heading in.
By ltmon at Sun, 2005/12/04 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
These are all problems that should be addressed in the package manager itself.
For example, users should be able to install a .deb package in their own dir (/home/user/.local for example, instead of /). As long as the files don't conflict with other packages, two packages of the same name should be installable in this case.
By Reply at Sun, 2005/12/04 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
So, are you going to write that fabulous package manager ??
In the meantime, I'll be a happy klik user.
As soon as you have something to test, tell so. Announce here: I'll get in touch with you to be your first beta tester.
By reply-reply at Sun, 2005/12/04 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
By Fritz at Mon, 2005/12/05 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
yeah, works perfect with all those KDE/Qt applications, right?
By cl at Mon, 2005/12/05 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
Actually, it works just as well with KDE/Qt applications as Klik does. The only potential issue is the C++ ABI which has changed a little bit between different GCC versions. In practice I never found it to give any trouble though, and their current development version even allows for packages to contain different binaries for the different ABI's.
@rinse: Autopackage is _not_ a replacement for existing package managers, it just complements them.
By Arend jr. at Wed, 2005/12/07 - 6:00am
That's so special about klik! (+autopackage diffs)
No it doesn't.
The reason is: autopackage and klik do different things (with similar goals).
autopackage compiles source code. And tries to make the result as portable as ever possible. Its main religion is *first* to create a cleaner build environment+system, obtain cleaner source code from upstream, work for a cleaner dependency determination... and only *then* they'd put everything for 1 application underneath one directory. autopackage creates new tools to change the world of software.
klik re-packages already compiled binaries (.deb, .rpm, .tgz, and even .package packages). And tries to make the result as portable as currently possible. It works with means and tools that are currently available. Its main religion is "1 file == 1 application" (have everything contained in one .cmg file system image). klik uses existing tools to change the world of software.
autopackage works now for only very few applications. It requires the programmers to learn new tricks. autopackage requires sometimes many, sometimes fundamental changes in the source code of a program to make it auto-package-able. And it always requires re-compilation before an autopackage for a given application is created for the first time. Sometimes many man-days of "non-sexy" work.... Therefore, its success and popularity amongst coders is not spectacular, though I wish it were. (I really appreciate, applaud and admire the efforts of the autopackage guys -- but I am also a big fan of klik, if you could not tell yet.)
klik works already now for many, many applications. It requires no changes in the source code, and no re-compilation. Its results are ready in minutes very often. The klik developers have me had surprised and stunned on various occasions already, when a user came into their IRC #channel and asked for a new klik://package and they were able to create a fully working one within 2 minutes (happened with klik://flock, klik://wesnoth-latest, klik://wengophone and klik://xara).
Call klik an assortment of ugly hacks -- but it is wildly successful in what it does! And the removal of the ugliness is not in the realm of klik itself. This lays with the upstream packagers, with the Linux Standard Base efforts, and with the GCC developers (hell, they should not break ABI with every other minor release!). It also lays with the future success of autopackage!
If I understand the klik developers in #klik right, they even *wish* autopackage to succeed more than it currently does. Because this would give them much cleaner ingredient files for their klik recipes, which would then be much better portable across different Linux distributions.
By I disagree at Wed, 2005/12/07 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
No, that is another replacement :)
By rinse at Mon, 2005/12/05 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
"For example, users should be able to install a .deb package in their own dir"
They already can. I don't know the syntax for Debian, but every package manager has the ability to install to a different directory hierarchy (/, /usr/local, /opt, /sandbox, ~/MyStuff, ...).
By Brandybuck at Wed, 2005/12/07 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
++++ "every package manager has the ability to install to a different
Stop telling fairy-tales. Please!
By I disagree at Wed, 2005/12/07 - 6:00am
Re: ...and what's so special about klik?
While, yes, dpkg and rpm both _can_ install files into a new root, making it work right is not for the faint hearted. First, if the package is not relocatible, then you have the problem of needing to create a new package manager db in that fake "root", then the fun begins since if this is NOT a relocatible package, you will now have to deal with providing all those wonderful dependancies that that app needs to run.
Now what developers and packagers both need to strive for is making software completely relocatible. If you're furthur in doubt of this, take a look at the Maximum RPM book info about relocatible packages at http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ch-rpm-reloc.html
By Gary Greene at Mon, 2005/12/12 - 6:00am
OT: rdf feed?
I recognized that the rdf feed is not working anymore. What's the reason for this?
By Roland Wolters at Mon, 2005/12/05 - 6:00am
Re: OT: rdf feed?
By Navindra Umanee at Mon, 2005/12/05 - 6:00am
Re: OT: rdf feed?
By Anonymous at Mon, 2005/12/05 - 6:00am
www.kde.org now hosted by GNU???
> host www.kde.org
I'm all for it!
By interesting at Mon, 2005/12/05 - 6:00am
Re: www.kde.org now hosted by GNU???
Didn't Troll Tech use to host it? What happened?
By KDE User at Tue, 2005/12/06 - 6:00am
Re: www.kde.org now hosted by GNU???
Trolltech is atm busy moving.
By Anonymous at Tue, 2005/12/06 - 6:00am
Re: www.kde.org now hosted by GNU???
By Nicolas Goutte at Tue, 2005/12/06 - 6:00am
Re: what's so special about tux magazine ??
FWIW: The PDF from the latest issue says it was made with Acrobat Distiller 6.0.1 for Macintosh (haven't checked the earlier ones).
Seems to be a pretty good magazine, though.
By Cazo at Tue, 2005/12/06 - 6:00am
Hey, I am running a klik version of Firefox 1.5 in Mandriva 2006. It runs just dandy (except for a failure to register some "chrome" component, and java does not work). The flash plugin I had to reinstall, but it took 15 seconds, and I did it all as a regular user, and within Firefox. Excellent !
By MandrakeUser at Wed, 2005/12/07 - 6:00am
I just found pipitas' blogged about his new klik package:
* klik://thunderbird15-tabbed ....(a patched 1.5 release candidate version)
Way cool!
Also thanks to Jess Hall for writing such a useful article, giving really useful insight.
By kliker-noobie at Fri, 2005/12/09 - 6:00am


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Cystic fibrosis (CF) is an inherited disease that affects the respiratory and digestive systems. CF makes children sick by disrupting the normal function of epithelial cells — cells that make up the sweat glands in the skin and that also line passageways in the lungs, liver, pancreas, and digestive and reproductive systems.
A defect in these cells causes problems with the balance of salt and water in the body, leading it to produce thick mucus, which clogs the lungs, setting the stage for infections and other breathing problems. In kids with CF, this mucus also can prevent the normal absorption of key nutrients and fat in the intestines, leading to poor digestion, slow growth, difficulty gaining weight, greasy bowel movements, and a decreased ability to fight infection.
At the time of diagnosis, the majority of patients have a condition called pancreatic insufficiency. This means that enzymes created in the pancreas that digest fat, starch, and protein aren't properly passed into the intestines. As a result, the body has problems absorbing the necessary amounts of several important nutrients.
By providing good overall nutrition along with extra fat and calories and prescribed enzymes, you can help your child with CF grow healthy and strong.
In general, kids with CF need more calories than other kids in their age group. The amount of additional calories they need will vary according to each child's lung function, activity level, and illness.
A child's calorie needs might be even higher during an illness (even a low-grade infection can greatly increase the calories required). A CF dietitian can help you determine how many calories your child needs each day, and track growth and weight gain over time in order to provide a good nutrition plan.
Kids with CF also have some specific nutritional needs:
Calcium. Patients with pancreatic insufficiency have difficulty absorbing calcium and are especially at risk for developing osteoporosis (weak, brittle bones), as are all kids with CF. Dairy products are good sources of calcium (and the full-fat varieties also are good sources of fat and calories). Many juices also are fortified with calcium.
Essential fatty acids. Patients with cystic fibrosis have altered levels of plasma fatty acids. Found in plant oils, safflower oil, and soybean oils, they help in the building of cell membranes and may play a role in lung function. It is suggested that CF patients try to incorporate more omega 3 fatty acids into their diet, which can be done with either food sources or supplements. Salmon, flax seeds, and walnuts are excellent food sources of omega 3 fatty acids. Before giving your child any over-the-counter supplements, discuss this with your CF dietitian or doctor.
Fat-soluble vitamins (vitamins A, D, E, and K). Important for immune function, growth, and healing, these vitamins are absorbed along with fat. And because most kids with CF have trouble digesting fat, they often have low levels of fat-soluble vitamins and need to take specialized prescription supplements.
Iron. Many children with CF are at risk for developing iron-deficiency anemia, which can cause fatigue and poor resistance to infection. Fortified cereal, meats, dried fruits, and dark green vegetables are good sources of iron.
Salt. Kids with CF lose a lot of salt in their sweat, especially during hot weather and when they exercise. So a CF dietitian may suggest adding salt to an infant's formula and giving an older child salty snacks. The dietitian may recommend sending sports drinks along when your child plays sports or has phys ed, and during hot weather.
Zinc. Important for growth, healing, and fighting infection, zinc is found in meats, liver, eggs, and seafood.
To meet your child's nutrition needs, you'll work with the CF dietitian to create meal plans that include plenty of snacks, especially for toddlers who eat smaller meals.
For a picky eater, pay attention to the foods your child especially likes and adapt the menu as these preferences change. Ask an older child with CF to try one new food a week. It's also important to model good behavior for kids of all ages. Eat a well-balanced diet with a variety of foods and make sure you try new things yourself.
To make meals a pleasant experience:
All childcare providers and teachers should know that your child has CF and be aware of his or her nutritional and caloric needs. Work with the staff to plan high-calorie meals and snacks or send food if the menu can't accommodate your child's needs. Young kids need help taking their enzymes and supplements, and the staff should understand that they need to be taken before all meals.
As kids with CF grow into teens, they'll probably begin eating more meals away from home and may feel pressured to eat in certain ways. Work with your teen, emphasizing the positive and monitoring any weight changes that are of concern. If you're packing lunch, include high-calorie options like ranch dressing and peanut butter crackers.
It can be tricky to make sure that kids with CF eat enough fat and calories, especially if they're sensitive to what's on the plates of siblings and peers. One way to increase calories without creating an entirely separate menu is to increase the calories and fat in one part of the meal.
Here are some simple ways to do so:
When you're shopping, be sure to compare the labels on similar prepared foods and purchase those that have higher fat and calorie content. Avoid diet foods — anything that claims to be nonfat, low fat, reduced calorie, or light/lite.
Look for whole-fat versions of dairy products such as sour cream, cottage cheese, and yogurt (many natural food stores carry a good variety of these). Don't forget to check baby food labels. You'd be surprised at how the caloric level varies between brands.
A child with pancreatic insufficiency will need to take enzymes with meals and snacks to help digest food properly and to get the nutrition and fat needed to grow and gain weight.
Signs that your child may need enzymes or an enzyme dose adjustment include:
The CF dietitian or doctor will prescribe enzymes based on weight, growth, and how much a child eats at a time. An increased enzyme dose doesn't necessarily mean that a child is doing poorly. It may mean that he or she has gained weight and now requires more enzymes.
Enzymes need to be taken with every meal and most snacks. They come in capsules, full of tiny beads, that can be broken open for kids who are too young to swallow entire capsules. They should only be mixed with foods that are acidic, like applesauce. They should not be chewed or crushed. Never change the dose of enzymes without first consulting your child's dietitian or doctor.
In some cases, enzymes and high-calorie meals may not be enough to help a child thrive, and feedings through a tube into the stomach may be needed. It's not always physically possible for kids with CF to meet their increased energy needs by eating by mouth alone. Tube feedings, which can be done at night, are an excellent way to help kids who have trouble gaining weight, especially when they're ill.
Many kids and their parents are resistant to having a tube put in. But tube feedings are only prescribed when dietary interventions, calorie-boosting strategies, and enzymes haven't been enough. Tube feeding may sound scary at first, but tube insertion is usually an uncomplicated outpatient procedure. Results can include improved weight gain and decreased stress around eating.
Tube feedings do not mean that you've failed to feed your child well or that he or she isn't a good eater — often they just mean that a child needs so many calories a day that it's impossible to keep up without them. Your child's doctor and dietitian will make recommendations about tube feedings.
It can be hard for kids with CF to eat enough in a day to meet their needs, especially when they aren't feeling well. Although we all think we'd like to be able to eat a high-fat, high-calorie diet, many kids with CF, especially teens, find it difficult to do so in our diet-conscious culture.
Keeping your eye on the positive — your child's growth and weight gain — will help your child with CF eat well, stay healthy, and thrive.
Reviewed by: Michelle Reed, RD, LDN
Date reviewed: January 2014
Originally reviewed by: Danielle Scotto, RD, LDN, CNSD, CSP
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At ThinkAdvisor's virtual exchange-traded fund conference on Tuesday, a quick poll found that the vast majority of advisors now use some ETFs along with mutual funds and other vehicles in their client portfolios.
During the all-day live trade show, "ETFs: What Advisors Need to Know for Successful Portfolio Building," 75.7% of several hundred attendees during the first of five panels reported that they now use ETFs with mutual funds and other investments. Only 6.6% reported that they use ETF-only client portfolios, and 17.8% said they don't use ETFs at all in client portfolios but are considering them.
ThinkAdvisor editor Jamie Green, who moderated the first panel focused on the pros and cons of ETF investing, said that the ETF debate lives on, even though many advisors have become mainstream users of ETFs for their clients.
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Stepping forward to defend the use of ETFs in client portfolios was speaker Ron DeLegge (left), editor of ETFguide, who pointed out that ETFs now total $1.4 trillion under management, with 2008 being the only year in the last 10 years when the market hasn't grown. In June 2013, assets decreased 4.0%, driven by a $15 billion drop in the international-emerging category.
DeLegge first went over the basics of ETFs, saying they offer the benefits of low expenses, trading flexibility and high tax efficiency, and they cover all major asset classes, including stocks, bonds, commodities, currencies and real estate.
"He who offers the lowest cost usually wins the race," he said, though he acknowledged that "not everybody is a fan of ETFs out there."
DeLegge noted that Vanguard founder John Bogle, for example, has said that ETFs are like handing an arsonist a match because they tempt investors to trade too often. But DeLegge then shared a slide of a Vanguard study of its own shareholders in 2012 that refutes the notion that investors have become day traders. Rather, it shows that buy-and-hold ETF investors outnumber buy-and-sell traders, at a rate of 83% for mutual funds and 62% for ETFs at Vanguard. Indeed, he said, Vanguard is an ETF leader, with approximately $300 billion under management.
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As some of the fastest-growing portable gaming platforms today, it's no wonder that over a quarter of the 500,000 apps (applications) available to Apple iPhone and iPod Touch owners are digital diversions. In fact, given these devices' user-friendly, motion-sensing interfaces; sharp 3D graphics; selection of titles for all ages and interests at a variety of comfortable prices; and ability to retrieve content on-demand virtually anytime, anywhere, well… Let's just say we're confident that of the over ten billion downloads users have presently notched up in the App Store, more than a few have been purchased with productivity the furthest thing from buyer's minds. Looking for the perfect way to kill time while waiting for the bus or standing in line to score tickets to a sporting event?
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Robot Unicorn Attack 2 (Free)
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Spaceteam (Free)
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Super Stickman Golf 2 ($1)
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Stickets ($3)
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Micro Miners ($2)
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Tennis in the Face ($2)
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Time Surfer ($1)
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Anomaly Korea ($4)
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Microsoft Developer Division VP Soma Somasegar has been detailing the Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET 4.5.1 Preview that were made available to developers at the Build 2013 conference.
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Microsoft's core themes for both of these new products hinge around a promise of development, design, and diagnostics tools for Windows 8.1 — so at this time we also see the launch of the Windows 8.1 Preview.
NOTE: Windows 8.1 will be a free update for Windows 8 consumers later this year through the Windows Store.
Microsoft notes that when it comes to the Windows 8.1 preview, Windows will continue to offer developers a choice of programming language (C#, C++, JavaScript, or VB), a choice of presentation technology (XAML, HTML, or DirectX), and a choice of business model via the Windows Store.
Now that the Visual Studio 2013 Preview and .NET 4.5.1 Preview are now available for download as "go-live" releases, we can also see that Visual Studio 2013 includes improvements to support async debugging. Somasegar says that previously, it could be very difficult for a developer stopped at a breakpoint to know the asynchronous sequence of calls that brought them to the current location.
"Now in Visual Studio 2013, the Call Stack window surfaces this information, factoring in new diagnostics information provided by the runtime. Further, when an application stops making visible forward progress, it's often difficult to diagnose and understand what asynchronous operations are currently in flight such that their lack of completion might be causing the app to hang. In Visual Studio 2013, the Tasks window (formerly called Parallel Tasks in Visual Studio 2010 and Visual Studio 2012) now includes details on these async operations so that you can break into your app in the debugger and easily see and navigate to everything that's in flight," he said.
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Trolltech Developer Days in Munich
The second annual Trolltech Developer Days took place last month in San Jose, USA and on last week in Munich, Germany. They featured keynotes and presentations from Eirik Chambe-Eng, Trolltech's co-founder and President; Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE and Trolltech's Vice President Software Development; Aaron Seigo, KDE Core Contributor and many others. Read on for a summary of some of the keynotes and presentations given in Munich.
Eirik Chambe-Eng
The first keynote by Eirik Chambe-Eng, Trolltech's co-founder and president, gave an overview of the company's current situation and future plans:
Trolltech continues to grow at an impressive rate, they increased their staff from 80 to 140 employees in the last twelve months. A second round of fundraising, which brought $6.7 million of disposable money to the company, was recently completed. Trolltech has opened an office in China. And of course the long awaited Qt 4 was released. In the coming twelve months Trolltech will become a professional service organisation. They will develop new products that complement and expand the usage of Qt. A continued focus on making Qt easier to use, faster, leaner and better will be kept and it is expected that Qtopia will explode in the phone market.
One of the new products complementing and expanding the usage of Qt will be a thin client architecture called Qt/Coco, named after designer Coco Chanel who said one can never be too rich or too thin. It is targeted at enterprise users and it will allow server side Qt apps to be deployed on thin, universal clients in an organisation, with the goal to dramatically reduce administration costs. Currently, Qt/Coco is in the prototype stage and it already shows amazing performance (ten times faster than X11). Trolltech is also developing Java-bindings for Qt called Qt/Java, which will allow Java developers to use the Qt API. A prototype will be available in the first quarter of 2006.
Qtopia is another success story for Trolltech. The company currently has 85 customers using Qtopia, from which 30 are mobile phone builders. Linux is the disruptive force in the handset industry and Trolltech's goal is that 100 million handsets are sold using Qtopia by 2008. Qtopia 4, which is currently under development, will be based on Qt 4. Some of its highlights will be a native sandbox for safe execution of programs, an integrated SQL database on every device and advanced graphics due to the new Arthur painting subsystem in Qt4. Some of the advantages of Qtopia over .Net are: customisability of the user interface, lower memory consumption and the availability of the source code.
Matthias Ettrich
The second keynote by Matthias Ettrich, founder of KDE and Trolltech's Vice President of Software Development gave an overview of Qt 4:
The design goals of Qt 4 were to enhance the capabilities, to increase the flexibility and to lay a solid foundation for the future. Mostly Qt 4 turned out as an immediate success. The clean Qt 4 code base allows Trolltech to turn quickly and there are successful and fast ports from Qt 3. Qt 4 has also been quickly adopted in the open source world. However, some users are dissatisfied with the speed of certain painting operations and the qt3to4 porting tool and the Qt3Support library partly failed to deliver: some ported applications compiled, but looked very odd when running. Qt 4.1 brings many small bug fixes, based on customer feedback. Arthur, the painting subsystem of Qt 4, is optimised, including accelerations using OpenGL. It also included a highly improved and extended Qt3Support library and an enhanced Qt Designer with an action editor. Qt 4.1 also includes a new painting backend for Arthur: a SVG backend that renders SVGs either using the native rendering backend (e.g. Render on X11, core graphics on MacOSX) or OpenGL.
For the future, Trolltech is porting Qt 4 to Windows Vista and it is improving the embedded and the MacOSX version of Qt 4. Also the Qt 3 to Qt 4 migration experience will be further improved. New features according to customer needs will be integrated. Some examples could be: scripting in dialogues, printing (currently there is no cross platform preview function available), desktop integration (systray, mimetypes, help system), high-level mainwindow integration in native platforms (e.g. always use SDI on MacOSX), cross desktop IPC, improvements to the help system (currently there is no infrastructure for a context sensitive help system) and a component model.
Aaron Seigo
After lunch, Aaron Seigo talked about Qt and the Future of the KDE interface.
Aaron first summarised some facts about KDE 3. It is based on monolithic libraries, has an attractive interface which is limited by the current desktop imaging techniques, has lots of features and lots of applications. KDE 4's library layout will follow Qt 4's more modular approach. The libraries will be split into modular components and frameworks and the naming and API consistency will be improved.
Next Aaron discussed the merits of the single click interface. Single clicks are good because they are easier to learn and more predictable then double clicks. In addition they are quicker. The downsides are that it is not straight-forward how the user can select something. And single click actions still have to be learnt. An alternative approach that shares the advantages of the single click interface, but does not have the disadvantages, is a mouse-over based interface. The basic idea is that a (transparent) menu opens if the mouse is over an icon. This context menu presents options like select and activate that can be performed with an object. The image below shows a mockup of such a mouse-over based interface.
Mockup of a mouse-over based interface
KDE will also feature an improved KDevelop and Kontact. The MDI mode and the toolbar configuration will be reworked and enhanced. KDE will also feature a new default icon theme called Oxygen.
I want to thank Matthias Ettrich who made it possible for me to attend the Trolltech developer days in Munich
Thanks for all the information for those who couldn't attend!
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By Dominik Seichter at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
At Last, Some Actual News
And that context search mock-up looked quite interesting.
By segedunum at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: At Last, Some Actual News
Interesting read. I still hope for some continuity between KDE3 and KDE4 - so that trained people still get the less intutive but in the end faster interfacing stuff like doubleclick instead of mouse-over and so on.
Though design decisions will be made I guess. We will see.
By chris at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Very interesting mock-up given Aaron's latest...
Aaron just today on his blog, "... file managers are an anachronism."
I've heard rumors that some TT devs are brainstorming possible file manager replacements and with this mock-up and Aaron's quote, I think whatever comes out will be quite interesting.
I like the idea of working _around_ the endless 'single click' VS 'double click' debate. If I had to guess, I think that is the true anachronism. We're limiting our UI choices based on old technology. Qt4 is going to offer us sooooo much more :)
By manyoso at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Very interesting mock-up given Aaron's latest...
Although I somewhat agree with the idea that file-managers are an anachronism, I'm not all for a total revamp.
On the one hand, I think calling file-managers an anachronism is kinda like saying manual screwdrivers are an anachronism, just because most of the time it's easier to use an electric screwdriver. However, trying to use an electric screwdriver in some situations will result in badly stripped screws and a lot of unnecessary hassle.
Likewise with file-managers. I'd love to have the revved up electric-screwdriver version of Konqueror, where I have to do one-tenth of the work and get all the results. At the same time, I definitely want to be able to use the same old I-do-all-the-work-and-have-far-better-control version of the file-manager available.
I hope that in the redesign of the system, this is kept in mind, and by the mockup it seems that it most likely was. I hope that the "Ask A Question" bar is done like the "Location" bar currently is: If I just type in a lot of words, it'll do the search I need, but if I put in "~/personal/writing/" it'll take me straight to the directory I told it to.
I'm also somewhat concerned by the incredibly cool idea of mouse-over-menus. On the one hand, it's a very elegant solution. On the other hand, it results in a significant interface difference between Icon/Tile views and List/Detail/Tree views, or Icon view at a very small size, as those more reduced views do not have space for a mouse-over menu. I couldn't abide having my icons as large as they are in the example (I have too much stuff in most directories to sacrifice that much screen realestate), so there could be issues with my using this system as it is displayed.
Of course, there are top-notch developers working on this, so I'm sure they've considered these issues.
By jameth at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
I like the sound of Qt/Coco development. X11 is a dinosaur in need of replacement BAD. Windows kicks X11 100 times all around because X11 is a bloated protocol. Whoever developed X11 should deserve F's in all their computer science and math classes. Oh yah, X11 was from MIT. Shows you how stupid MIT people are.
In any event, I have a few questions for Qt/Coco:
By Yo at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
Cool. You seem to have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA of what X11 is supposed to be. X11 is a network transparent windowing system, for use in high bandwidth networks. This means that wherever you are, you have access to your GUI *on a central server*. X11 is not supposed to be fast. Its supposed to be usable over the network. This means that it is not as fast as it could be, but usable on thin clients which were common a few decades ago, but recent optimizations make it also usable on new thin clients as well as on local hardware.
Yeah I know, there is (Free)NX. However, this doesn't qualify in this discussion, because it uses a *lot* of compression/decompression overhead, using a lot of CPU cycles, which can be saved in high bandwidth networks.
You think all X11 designers deserve F's? Design somthing better for this same purpose and then come back. Troll.
By hoirkman at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
>> You seem to have ABSOLUTELY NO IDEA
>> X11 is a network transparent windowing
>> system, for use in high bandwidth networks.
The reason? The reason is the possible latency between two nodes which can not defeated by any amount of bandwidth you may throw at it. That latency is putting the break on many modern applications displaying their GUI over the network onto a remote screen.
The consequence? The application logic running on one box needs to talk to its own display screen (which is drawing its dialogs, etc.) and the user's keyboard and mouse (which give it commands to follow). This talking is an exchange of messages, many of which require direct responses for the program flow to go on. A message <--> response pair is a "roundtrip". A roundtrip is taking time, the time of the link latency to complete.
Link latency adds up. Mozilla/Firefox needs to go through several thousand roundtrips before even its first complete dialog window appears completely drawn on screen. You do not feel toooo much of this with latencies below 1 millisecond (as in a LAN, or on a loopback interface, or on a Unix domain socket). But over the internet you have to pay the toll. Going over a GSM modem, Firefox' thousands of roundtrips for the first window take more than 7 minutes to finish.
The guilty? Yes, *some* would say it is the fault of X11 being designed as it is, "provoking" too many roundtrips. I'd oppose them. X11 is a very efficient protocol in and of itself. It has minimal overhead. It is more what the programmers of the applications, or more exactly, the programmers of the low level toolkits (Gtk and Qt alike) are doing to the X11 protocol and abusing its atomic messaging capabilities for lots of stuff that shouldn't be done at all, and avoided through more intelligence.
NX is ample proof of this. Yes, NX compresses too. But compression alone is not the only reason. (You can try "ssh -C -X" over a real internet link, and over a DSL or faster connection, to see how much or how little it helps...).
Going back to the same GSM modem connection: NX is able to filter out nearly all of those several thousand roundtrips (less than a dozen remain), and strip down the time for drawing the Firefox window from > 7 minutes to about 20 seconds.
>> X11 is not supposed to be fast
>> Its supposed to be usable over the network.
>> (Free)NX (...) uses a *lot* of compression/decompression
The special NX compression scheme for X11 traffic uses roughly 10% of the CPU cycles as compared to what a plain and generic ZLIB based compression would use for the same traffic. At the same time, it is about 10x more efficient by using a cache that saves when having to transfer identical content twice, and resorts to differential transfers for similar content.
>> You think all X11 designers deserve F's?
By Kurt Pfeifle at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
And if you don't believe Mr. Pfeifle just check out E17 which is one of the very few projects natively making good use of the X Window System.
By ac at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
You think NX is fast? Ha! NX is shiet slow compare to RDP 5.2. Go do several test cases yourself. I DID, and one reason why my company chose RDP over NX. We tried to give NX the benefit of the doubt, but at the end RDP 5.2 kicks NX serious ass all around. This include 25 frames per second ramdon polygons display, Power PCB board design at resolution 1600x1200-16-bit color, etc. All of this was compared to NX. It is without a doubt to us RDP 5.2 was a clear winner. NX has a lot of mouse/keystroke latency and the graphic display is not immediately when we click on a certain area or type on a certain section. The latency in response has us thinking at times that the system has froze.
In summary, NX does a lot of compression and optimizatin for X11 but the response from a user's experience is inadequate.
Having said that I welcome Qt/Coco and looking forward to reading its technical spec. Judging by what I'm designing, I'm assuming for them to achieve such great performance, they'll use UDP and parity to not do "round trip". It's a one-way message passing.
As far as I'm concern X11 is a very poorly design protocol. What is this about "network transparent windowing" ... and to think u know what you're talking about Citrix/RDP 5.2 can do "network transparent windowsing" at 50 times the speed. Remember, Microsoft licensed Citrix for their RDP technology.
By Zero at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
Obviously, you do not understand what a network transparent protocol is. Citrix/RDP/VNC only carry remote desktop sessions. I concede that this is what normally you just want to do, but the usefulness of those protocols are implicitly limited to just this kind of application. You can't, for example, open *just one* remote application which I do constantly. Opening a whole remote session in this case only serves one purpose: cluttering your local Desktop.
OTOH, X11 is a great protocol. Kurt already explained why you experience some shortcomings. If you want to know more, I point you to the great series of articles about FreeNX he wrote for Linux Journal.
Last, I won't discuss about speed. I haven't done those tests myself so I will have to trust yours. In any case, use whatever fill better your needs but, please, next time do *informed and constructive* criticism or leave the rest of the world alone.
By Me at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
"You can't, for example, open *just one* remote application which I do constantly."
The two are orthogonals. Protocol is INDEPENDENT from how the system handles to deliver each application. I am able to run just Word or just Excel WITHOUT having the WHOLE windows session from RDP. Ever heard of Windows 2003 Terminal Service? You can setup Windows 2003 policy so that when a user logs in, he/she only runs ONE application and have that one application be self-contained as a remote application. In addition, you can login, and run a "remote application". :)
I don't see your point about "just one remote application".
My criticisms justified!
By Zero at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
Hmmm. I hope you have a fast and totally reliable network to run Terminal Services. I also hope you have fairly deep pockets as well.
Re: Qt/Coco
"You think NX is fast? Ha! NX is shiet slow compare to RDP 5.2"
RDP?! Oh, hell yer! Not.
Re: Qt/Coco
>>> You think all X11 designers deserve F's?
I disagree: NeWS was less latency sensitive than X, so does X11 designers really deserve their A?
I think it's a bit strange that using X11 is so difficult that the two major toolkits (GTK and Qt) do not manage to use efficiently X11's protocol and that NX must be used to reduce roundtrips..
BTW what is the link betweeb Qt/Coco and NX:
By renox at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
I did't find information about Coco but I implemented solution similar to this.
By Oleg Shalnev at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
By Zero at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
Glan is a toolkit for developing network GUI applications. It consists of a remote Qt toolkit, a network (client-server) wrapper for Qt classes, and a Qt-based Application Server development platform for creating GUI oriented client-server applications.
For example. Here is some of SERVER SIDE code
GFont font;
InterfaceLayout=new GGridLayout(this);
// Create Panel
PanelLayout=new GHBoxLayout();
DateLabel=new GLabel(this);
InterfaceLayout->addLayout(PanelLayout, 0,0);
// Create Organize Block
CalendarLayout=new GVBoxLayout();
By Oleg Shalnev at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Re: Qt/Coco
Could you please give me some complete example of server program for Glan. I want to run and see..Thanks in advance!
By ikbahrian at Thu, 2007/05/24 - 5:00am
Interesting choice of search term. I assume this was intended as a way to lighten the mood during a dense speech?
By Evan "JabberWok... at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
but how about that?
"KDE will also make use of new X.org features to allow e.g. transparent menus"
I don't know about you but these cool effects with Tenor and Plasma ( I love the SVG KJS tools!) are my most-can't-wait-for-it-wanted features for KDE4.
Anyway, mockup looks amazing and Qt/Coco sounds great.
I'm sure kubuntu with all these features will be the best desktop distro EVER :) (hear me Novel?) and NO, Trolltech is not gonna get bankrupt because Novel didn't picked KDE duh.
Re: but how about that?
I dont think there will be anything like XGL ready in the end-of-2006/beginning-of-2007 time frame. XGl or a successor is unfortunately more long-term.
By MW at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: but how about that?
Following the xorg mailinglist seems to reveal that EXA is far from being
By ac at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: but how about that?
I think this new fetures are Composite and Damage extensions. Which can be used in KDE now,(Shadows, fading, truly transparent windows) but not that much.
By MaBu at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: but how about that?
"...will we get those cool effects stuff Zack Rusin demonstrated at aKademy !?"
Yawn. When it works on a non-proprietary video driver, give me a call. In the meantime I'll keep my freedom (and my system maintainability, stability, etc), and be content to live without the eyecandy.
By Brandybuck at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
I really hate how everything Trolltech is doing is acclaimed here
This is KDE, it is about Free Software development. Neither Qt/Coco nor Qtopia are Free Software and specially the Qtopia vs .NET thing is simply FUD.
Paying TT customers will truely get the source code, Free Software developers not, .NET (Windows Mobile 5.0) has Sandboxing now, Qtopia will have it some time...
... gosh ... I hate that propaganda...
By ich at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
My god, chill out dude :) This is a KDE site and our primary toolkit is Qt, made by Trolltech. If you like Windows Mobile, good for you! Now, can you please run around to all the .NET sites praising Windows Mobile and demand that they equally praise Qtopia?
We'll see you when you get done. I'd say you have a few years worth of work.
By manyoso at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
Well we the KDE Project use the Free Software and great component called Qt. It is created and maintained by Trolltech.
And once they utilize us to spread their marketing FUD it has to stop. It is bad journalism to simply copy marketing stancas from Trolltech.
By ich at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
and, apart from what the ppl above me already said, what do you mean with the OSS developers don't get the source code? they do! in the form of GPL code, i can't see how it can be more free (in terms of the Free Software Foundation-free)...
and this is not the fact with windows mobile. or IS it available under the FREE(TM) GPL license? no, its not, is it? well, then, stop spreading FUD.
Re: Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
Well for Qtopia you certainly do not get the latest source code. E.G. Qtopia 2.1.2 PDA had been released in June to paying customers. Using rsync Qtopia you get version 1.7.
So Qtopia is not like Qt - that we all love. And it is okay for Trolltech to release Qtopia the way they want, though we should not simply generate buzz for Qtopia as it is not Free Software but a Proprietary Product.
By ich at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
sorry, i didn't know that. well, i hope this changes (the chance TT releases it under the GPL are at least 1000x the chance m$ does so)...
Re: BS!
Well Qt2.3.11 and Qtopia 2.1.2 are current. See http://doc.trolltech.com/qtopia2.1/html/release-index.html for when Qtopia2.1.2 was released to paying customers. And now imagine what would happen if Qt4.1 will only be released to paying customers and Qt4.2 will be the next GPL release...
That doesn't make Trolltech bad, or Qt4.0.x but it is weird...
By ich at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: BS!
Qtopia 2.1.2 is a bug fix release and so is Qt2.3.11. Bugfix releases have always been available earlier for paying customers. This was the case for Qt4.0.1, people with a commercial license got it earlier than us and you would know this if you were following the mailing list :)
So this is a non issue.
Re: Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
Wrong. Qtopia is free software. I do not see where to download Windows Mobile 5 source code, so I can change it in anyway I see fit, then release this myself on a device, if I so choose. If you have such a url please, do share it.
By Lorn Potter at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
Errr, Qtopia was released as free software. It hasn't always been that way, but it was definitely done fairly recently.
Re: Gosh I hate that Qtopia marketing...
Actually, Qtopia _has_ always been free software. Except for the early development phase. At version 1.4, Qtopia (than named QPE) was available at sourceforge. That was 4 years ago.
cheers! :)
By Lorn Potter at Wed, 2005/11/09 - 6:00am
Why Mouse Over Interface is bad
2007 with WiMax, WLAN, Bluetooth,WUSB integrated on your SoC in your mobile device you cary everywhere running a Free System like Maemo/GNOME (www.maemo.org). You want to communicate with your NX Rootserver from your University, Company, Home. Your handheld device has a touchscreen....
Well you find yourself unable to use KDE from your handheld: Well you have a touchscreen, KDE will be unable to be used with a mouse pointer device and not with a touchscreen...
Now not only KDE is not cross compilable, runnable on your handheld but you can not even connect to it in the future...
Conclusion: KDE fights a monopoly on the desktop, instead of creating a mobile strategy now to prevent M$, Symbian to get a new monopoly. In contrast KDE blocks itself out completely from a market where it could shine... At least GNOME took the money from Nokia to make it ready for a Consumer Electronic device (n770)
By ich at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Why Mouse Over Interface is bad
You never used a touchscreen, did you? Anyway, a touchscreen you can use by letting your finger mimic the mouse pointer. I do not see a fundamental problem here (other than the one every touchscreen shows: precision of of movements if thick fingers on small devices are involved.
I wholeheartedly agree with you that KDE needs to come up with a "mobile strategy".
It completely sucks that there was not one KDE developer found inside this whole productive community which produces lots of wonderful stuff, who could find interest to fix kNX. Not even for money (Kurt once said to me there has even been money offered, and none was interested -- how disappointing!).
kNX truly sucks. KDE is wasting years and years letting this wonderful technology rot in the dustbin. Looks like all of their coders lack any vision about the future of mobility and the technology that makes it happen. They are all busy with their own little kingdoms where they are the maintainer kings, and don't look further than their noses...
Maybe, maybe -- one day somebody steps forward. Given the wonderful architectural groundwork that is there in KDE, it could be a matter of only weeks until we could have a rocking KDE NX client running.
By nx-er at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Why Mouse Over Interface is bad
To the Touchscreen: all current GUIs are click orientated and a single click vs. mouse over is hard to distunguish. So mouse over is not becoming reality on touch screen devices.
Yes KDE's NX Integration is well disappointing, that synchronizing and integration of mobile gadgets is completely missing in KDE is... That we integrate Palm better than Free Software (Maemo, GPE, Opie) is from a Free Software point of view...
Nokia invested two years (n man years of money) to make core GNOME technology usable on handhelds. But luckily KDE moves on forward as well by splitting technology up into minor pieces...
Let us hope KDE does not obsolete itself by only focusing on i386 based desktops as of today... KDE4 is not released now, it will be released in the future, it should be ready for future computing... let us hope at least some others share this believe.
By ich at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Re: Why Mouse Over Interface is bad
i think kde is doing good on the embeded platform, see what they're up to:
especially these project:
Qt/Embedded + X11 compatibility
Revamped DocumentsTab
CrossRef project + PIM
By Pat at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Michael Thaler: great article! love it ;-)
mouse-over interface problems
As drawn, I don't see how the translucent mouse-over menu is better than a conventional context menu on right mouse button click.
Presumably, "click to select" becomes hover > Actions > Select this icon. And once you've chosen that you've moved your mouse far from the icon, so direct manipulation gets lost.
After selecting the icon, does the mouse-over menu not appear so that you can perform drag-and-drop? Or do you choose hover > Actions > Move this icon?
Also, the mouse-over menu would seem to interfere with press-and-hold to initiate drag-and-drop.
It seems hard to adapt this to a touch screen, or a keyboard or direction-pad UI.
However, it's good to see interesting new ideas! We've learned to live with the confusion of a hybrid click to select/click to activate UI, but it's not easy: when I see a new UI element I "probe it" with a mixture of wipe-through selection, press-and-hold, and right-mouse button context menu.
By S Page at Mon, 2005/11/07 - 6:00am
Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
Trolltech would best help the spread of Qt by reducing the price of commercial Qt licence by a factor of 10 at least. The current price (cca 3000E per developer!) is really a show stopper for not only small ISV's - look how Novell has chosen Gnome/Gtk as default desktop/toolkit. The main reason is money, off-course.
Trolltech, are you listening?
By Krystof at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
afaik, you can choose what functions of Qt you need, so you can have it a lot cheaper. and if you can't afford it (as startup) you can contact them, and they'll give it for a lower price, or free for 1 year or something. and anyway, as developer time costs a lot more than this e3000, you'll even save money by using and paying for Qt - as it is a much more efficient toolkit compared to GTK (the well-known total-costs-of-ownership are imho lower with Qt).
The main reason Novell choose to go for gnome is just the trolling of some gnome ppl in Novell. just plain politics. when did a big organisation choose something because it was The Right Thing(TM)? forget it, they don't.
anyway, novell still throws more money in KDE/Qt as in Gnome/GTK. they laid off a bunch of Gnome devs and ONE KDE dev. suse is worth much more than Ximian, and suse is profitable - Ximian never is/was/will. there will come a time they see money spend on Gnome is money thrown away. just as sun HP and IBM have seen.
By superstoned at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
You are maybe right about Novell. However, this situation would probably never happen if Qt was licenced under the same licence as Gtk.
If Qt was really free (as in BSD or at least LGPL) or at least significantly cheaper then Gtk would hardly ever be used in commercial apps and distros.
By Krystof at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
maybe, but then Trolltech wouldn't be able to employ 120 ppl on Qt and KDE...
By superstoned at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am
Re: Reduce the price of commercial Qt !
"If Qt was really free (as in BSD or at least LGPL) or at least significantly cheaper then Gtk would hardly ever be used in commercial apps and distros."
There's more to it than mere price. Sure they could use GTK. And they would then sacrifice documentation, training, tech-support, portability etc. etc. Yes, Qt costs money. But maybe you get a lot more with Qt than you get with GTK+?
BMW costs more than Lada does, does that mean that BMW is overpriced?
By Janne at Tue, 2005/11/08 - 6:00am


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