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Statement on behalf of families of Stephen Port's victims following inquest conclusion
Statement on behalf of families of Stephen Port's victims following inquest conclusion
The inquests into the deaths of Anthony Walgate, Gabriel Kovari, Daniel Whitworth, and Jack Taylor, the four men murdered by serial killer Stephen Port between 2014 and 2015, concluded today at Barking Town Hall.
At a press conference following the conclusions, the families' lawyer Neil Hudgell of Hudgell Solicitors read out the following statement on behalf of the families:
"We welcome today's conclusions. The jury has obviously taken great care and considerable time to return these clear failings. We feel thoroughly vindicated by their findings.
The inadequate investigations by the Metropolitan Police into the deaths of Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack should be on public record as one of the most widespread institutional failures in modern history.
The jury has been unanimous in identifying fundamental failings and basic errors in the investigation into Anthony's death which meant that Port was not stopped, and was allowed to carry on with his terrible acts. On the jury's findings, we continue to believe that had the police done their jobs properly in the first place, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack would not have been killed and other young men would not have been drugged and raped by him.
We are incensed by the police's successful efforts to prevent the jury from examining whether prejudice played any part in the police's actions. The coroner did not rule that the police were not homophobic, and our position remains unchanged; based on the treatment we received, our firmly held belief is that the Metropolitan Police's actions were, in part, driven by homophobia. Had four, white, heterosexual girls been found dead in the same manner as Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack, then the police's actions, and the likely outcomes, would have been different.
The approach of the Met on the issue of homophobia demonstrates to us that even today, seven years on, they have learned very little.
The inquests have at least gone where the IOPC investigation failed to. Given that all but one of the 17 officers questioned as part of that investigation into the police's actions gave 'no comment' interviews, the inquests represent the first time we have had the opportunity to hear from the police in a public forum. It has taken seven years.
There is nothing that can return Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel or Jack to us. Their killer has rightly been held accountable, but the police have not. It distresses us hugely that many of the officers who failed us so badly continue to serve as police officers without any significant sanctions, and we cannot be confident that their performance has improved. In fact, we understand that at least 10 of the officers involved in the investigations have been promoted. We are now calling on the IOPC and the Met to revisit this issue.
We ask the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson and the Home Secretary, Priti Patel how that can be right? What faith in policing can the British public have when failings not only go unpunished, but are instead rewarded? How can the much-touted platitude of 'lessons being learnt' be true when there is a culture of rewarding failure?
Despite hearing assurances from one of the most senior officers in the Met, the coroner is not convinced that enough change has happened to prevent similar deaths in future. The people of London should be concerned. The coroner's Prevention of Future Deaths report will be essential reading for the government, and we will keep up our fight to ensure its findings are thoroughly and swiftly actioned.
During the inquests we have heard apologies from several officers. The fact that all of these apologies have come about only because of the inquest process, renders them hollow. Further, the prevailing attitude demonstrated by some of the officers whilst giving evidence has demonstrated to us that those lessons haven't been learnt, despite the Met's attempt to spin otherwise.
The past eight weeks have inevitably taken their toll. It has shocked us that many of the police witnesses either have very different recollections to ours, or only selective memory recall. We are exhausted, but we also feel vindicated. And while our view of the world has been tainted by what has happened, we have also been shown great warmth and care by so many people.
We want to thank the coroner, Her Honour Judge Sarah Munro QC and her counsel for their diligence and their sensitive communication with us throughout, the jury for their commitment and consideration, the leader of the Council and all of the staff at Barking Town Hall who have looked after us and made us feel welcome.
Detective Constable Ian Atkinson and Detective Superintendent Tim Duffield were assigned to us as family liaison officers ahead of Port's trial and have been with us ever since. We refer to them as 'the real police' as they have been a shining example of what we would have expected from the outset, but didn't get. We thank them from the bottom of our hearts for their communication, their consideration and most of all, for their kindness.
We'd also like to thank our legal team led by Neil Hudgell at Hudgell Solicitors and Henrietta Hill QC and Tom Stoate of Doughty Street Chambers.
Finally, but most importantly, we want to say to Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack that you will never be forgotten. We feel your loss every minute of every day, we will forever wonder how your lives would have turned out, but you live on strongly in our cherished memories."
Neil Hudgell added his own personal tribute to the families: "Over the past seven years, the families of Anthony, Gabriel, Daniel and Jack have been through every family's worst nightmare. This nightmare was then compounded by the police resolutely refusing to believe what the families knew all along to be true.
"Throughout their seven-year ordeal they have never once wavered in their desire for justice, accountability and answers. It is down to their dogged determination that we are here today and have forced the police into explaining their actions. Furthermore, it is to their absolute credit that during this time they have faced everything that has come their way with quiet dignity and good humour. It has been a privilege to represent them."
Further details about the rulings can be found on the inquests website: www.eastlondoninquests.org.uk


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This haunting tale of a child's faltering navigation of her poverty-stricken upbringing in rural Australia crackles with grit, beauty and poignant truths of the human heart.
The world is a bleak and bewildering place for Justine. Born "back to front", she also sees words the wrong way round. "My words were breech like me. Every year finished and I never caught up." Abandoned by her mother and with her unhinged, unreliable father largely absent, she lives in poverty with her war-traumatised grandfather, Pop. While Justine is isolated and neglected, she experiences some of life's joys though her friendship with Michael, a bright spark of a boy who's written off for his disabilities and cruelly known to his classmates as "spastic elastic". Theirs is a truly life-affirming relationship, a beautiful bond built on understanding and kindness in Justine's otherwise brutal world. Then there's fellow outsider Aunty Rita, who lives in the city but offers Justine a helping hand, inviting her to call whenever she needs to, though Justine can't decipher Rita's phone numbers – Justine's moments of light are typically quick to fade and flicker out. Emotionally isolated and disoriented by the dysfunctional adults in her life, Justine's voice is acutely involving, her naïve perspective poignant with real-life rawness. What a feat of suspenseful and tautly lyrical storytelling this is, a moving story that ends on a note of bittersweet hope.
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I never had words to ask anybody the questions, so I never had the answers... Abandoned by her mother and seldom visited by her unpredictable, violent father, 10-year-old Justine is raised by her grandfather, Pop - a man tormented by visions of war. Through years of poverty and neglect, Justine finds solace in the staggering natural beauty of the nearby Murray River. But when outside threats infiltrate even this sanctuary, who is there to protect her from danger? Exposed to a lethal world, Justine must navigate the final years of her precarious childhood alone. She must find ways to endure, she must run when she has to, and, ultimately, she must fight back. Sofie Laguna, winner of the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award, once again shows she is a writer of rare empathy, originality and blazing talent.
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'The language is pitch-perfect - it is the light in this dark tale...An engrossing exploration of the different ways people can find peace, the different ways humans respond to their environments, the small and large abuses that are constantly overlooked or allowed, and where that line lies.' The Age
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Sofie Laguna's second novel for adults, The Eye of the Sheep--shortlisted for the Stella Prize--won the 2015 Miles Franklin Literary Award and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her first novel for adults, One Foot Wrong, published throughout Europe, the US and the UK, was longlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award and shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Literary Award. Sofie's many books for young people have been published in the US, the UK and in translation throughout Europe and Asia. She has been shortlisted for the Queensland Premier's Award, and her books have been named Honour Books ...
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Is this even possible with Notepad++??
You could record the following Replace-All action in a macro.
What version is that in?
and alt +U (Edit->Convert Case to->Proper Case) is not available.
Only Upper and Lower cases are there.
the next version was 7.0.
Will the macro remember the In-selection checkbox: Ticked?
Comment #1: With the regular expression replacement solution, the macro WILL remember the In selection setting. When you run the macro and you have nothing selected, nothing will happen.
Comment #2: With @Claudia-Frank 's solution, if there is nothing selected, the convert-case command will do nothing when run from a macro, and isn't even selectable via the menus when using the command interactively.
Thus, neither way of doing it is like some other Notepad++ commands that run on the whole file if there is no active selection.


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Word of the month: 'Alphabet' or 'ABC'?
The word alphabetum, which is well attested in classical Latin, is found in British medieval Latin from the sixth century and again in Bede (DMLBS 1,69b). It appears, however, that the vernacular languages in use in England in the Middle Ages (English and Anglo-Norman) did not incorporate it, but prefered either ABC, or words derived from that.
David Crystal's Story of English in 100 Words (London: Profile Books, 2011) notes that the word alphabet does not occur in English until the sixteenth century. Hardly surprising in some ways, one might think, since the word is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet (alpha, beta), and Greek was not much studied in England before the Renaissance.
But the situation is not quite that simple. Firstly, the word alphabet is in fact found in English rather earlier than Crystal claims: both the OED and the MED provide a first attestation from an anonymous translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon, which dates from 1425 (OED alphabet and MED alphabete):
'Y have be instructe in Latyn and Grewe, but y perceyvede not the a. b. c. or alphabete of that chorle'.
('I have been instructed in Latin and Greek, but I did not understand the ABC or alphabet of that person')
The word is obviously still used in a Latin/Greek context, translates a Latin original, and appears as a synonym to a.b.c.
While the Anglo-Norman Dictionary has not found any attestations of alphabet, the word already appears nearly a century earlier in Continental French, with the authoritative Trésor de la langue française supplying a quotation from 1395 in Jean d'Outremeuse's Ly Myreur des Histors (TLF alphabet):
'cascon des 24 lettres del alphabete, c'este li A. B. C.'
('each of the 24 letter of the alphabet, that is the ABC')
It is interesting to note that here too, the medieval author felt the need to clarify the word by its synonym ABC.
Alongside the "learned" and later word alphabet, the languages of medieval England had from a much earlier date the alternative ABC, derived this time not from Greek letters, but from those that make up the Latin alphabet. ABC as a noun, or the spelt-out version of it, abece, is listed in the dictionaries of English from the first half of the fourteenth century (with the earliest attestation in Robert of Gloucester, 1325; OED: ABC):
'He was more þan ten ȝer old ar he couþe is abece'
('He was more than 10 years old before he knew his ABC')
Dictionaries of medieval French suggest that the word was known in the thirteenth century (GdfC 8,87a; TL 1,43), but the earliest French usage appears in Anglo-Norman (see Trésor de la langue française A B C, and the Anglo-Norman Dictionary ABC), in an alphabetical verse lapidary (a treatise explaining the virtues of particular stones). It is a text dating from 1100-1130. Its author, Philippe de Thaon, was originally from Normandy, but he wrote his lapidary in England.
'Or finent les peres de 'T', Ensurquetut nostre ABC'
('Here we end [our discussion of] the stones beginning with the letter 'T', and thus our ABC')
In addition, Anglo-Norman also has attestations of the spelt-out form abecé, of which the earliest example listed in the Anglo-Norman Dictionary is taken from the Life of St Edward The Confessor (c.1170), written by a nun of Barking (AND abecé):
'Les deos abecés unt trovez, Ki furent mult bien cumpassez'
('They have found the two ABCs, which were very well made')
A third alternative found in Anglo-Norman is the word 'absidarie' – or a variant spelling of the Middle English abecedary / medieval Latin abecedarium (DMLBS 1,3c). In the English language, the word's primary meaning is 'a book for teaching the alphabet' – with its earliest attestation listed in the OED and MED once more taken from the anonymous translation of Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon (1425):
'Lanfrancus […] perceyvynge anoon that he was but of simple intellect, toke to hym an abscedary'
('Lanfrancus […] immediately seeing that he was only of simple intellect, brought him an abecedary')
It is only in the late sixteenth century that the word becomes used in English to refer the the alphabet itself.
The Anglo-Norman Dictionary provides one example of the word, which is dated earlier, to the first half of the fifteenth century. It is found in the Liber Donati, a treatise on French grammar :
'Ci commence un tabule desz verbe solonc l'ordre del absidarie'
('Here begins a list of verbs following the order of the alphabet')
So rather than alphabet, it was the word ABC, the name often still given to children's reading-books and guides of all sorts, that was current 900 years ago in Anglo-Norman England.
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Q: Give name to PDF in Spring Controller without using @PathVariable I have Spring Controller, on calling its Request mapping .I am generating PDF file.But problem is that
Generated PDF has name same as the Request mapping Name.
Here I know that we can use @PathVariable to give name.But I don't want To use It.
Example :
@RequestMapping(value = { "/pdfDownload" }, method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void pdfDownload(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {
        //Logic OF generating PDF file

    // set response
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    response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=Mypdf12345.pdf");

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Here,
My generated PDF file has name pdfDownload.But i want it as Mypdf12345.pdf.
I don't want to use @PathVariable
Please help me to solve this problem.
Thank you.

A: response.setContentType("application/pdf");
response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=Mypdf12345.pdf");

A: Try it this way
response.setContentType("application/x-pdf");
response.addHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=Mypdf12345.pdf");

A: I got my answer.
Earlier problem is that I was using response's outputstream for writing the PDF document.
Hence, now i am writing PDF document to ByteArrayOutputStream and after completing the writing,i am writing that stream to responses's outputsteram.
e.g.
@RequestMapping(value = { "/pdfDownload" }, method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void pdfDownload(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) {

      //using bytearrayoutputstream instead of response outputstream,
      ByteArrayOutputStream  out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();

        //Logic OF generating PDF file

    // set response
    response.setContentType("application/pdf");
    response.setCharacterEncoding("UTF-8");
    response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=Mypdf12345.pdf");

    //transferring that stream to response output stream
    out.writeTo(response.getOutputStream());

}

that's it.
Thank you for your responses.

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Q: Is there good FAT driver for FUSE? (Lightweight, not mountlo) FUSE filesystem list show some FuseFat and FatFuse. Both are old, FatFuse is read-only , FuseFat is non-buildable and probably depends on glib.
Now I'm using mountlo for the task (mounting USB drives in generic way without root access or suid things (except of fusermount itself)), but it looks too big for such task.
Using FUSE to mount external storage devices is good both for security and for flexibility reason: the kernel sees only block reads and writes while actual code that deals with filesystem details runs with user privileges, allowing user to use custom filesystems and preventing from kernel filesystem exploits.
Is there good vfat FUSE driver?

A: I don't know which "FuseFat" you tried, but Debian & Ubuntu do have fusefat packages available in their repositories, so it is buildable somehow (maybe they have some useful patches?).  And yes, it needs GLib, but I'm not sure why that would be a problem?


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This is a beautiful sculpture of God Fukurokuju carved completely out of pure mammoth ivory tusk. This Japanese deity is part of the Japanese culture and is considered to be one of the Seven Lucky Gods. Basically, these are synonymous with the Three Start Gods of Chinese mythology. Look at the beautiful motifs that have been painstakingly hand painted on the ornate robe of the deity.
Turning it back, take a look at the branch of the apricot tree and see the bunch of hanging fruits. Look at the delicate brown colored hand painted demarcations, showing the cleft in the apricots. See how he has put his left hand at the back to support the weight of the apricots. Notice the texture of the bark as depicted by the artist. See the bones and muscles on the hand as it supports the load. Defining the beauty and skill of the artist is enhanced by the delicate hand painted traditional patterns and designs that completely accentuate the figurine. Look at the folds and the back of the shoe, which has been expertly crafted as if it was real cloth. Carving God Fukurokuju with such high symmetry and precision is only possible when done by a Master Carver. The ingenuity and skill of the artist is clearly visible in the fine details.
See how he holds the branch with his right hand, the two tassels that are colored black and red. Notice the folds on the robe and the large sleeves. Each of the round motif is exactly the same all over the robe yet the artist has managed to capture the symmetry of each design with the same precision. This beautiful and enchanting statue of God Fukurokuju is set on a carved wooden stand that adds to enhance its elegance.


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Dell CEO Agreed To Lower Shares' Value To Push $24 Billion Buyout
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Dell Inc<DELL.O> Chief Executive Michael Dell, aiming to clinch a $24.4 billion deal to take the No. 3 PC maker private, agreed to value his 16 percent stake in the company at about 2 percent below the price offered to other shareholders, company filings on Thursday showed.
The founder, who informed his board in August of his intention to remove the struggling company from Wall Street's scrutiny, agreed after extensive negotiations that his equity stake would be valued at $13.36 a share, versus the $13.65 offered eventually.
Negotiations with Silver Lake kicked off in October. Dell revealed that the private equity firm raised its proposed offer price at least once during ensuing discussions.
"To facilitate a price increase by Silver Lake, Mr. Dell and related persons agreed that their shares to be rolled over in the proposed transaction would be valued only at $13.36 per share as opposed to the $13.65 price offered to the company's unaffiliated stockholders," the filing read.
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Dell reports fiscal fourth-quarter results on Tuesday, when analysts get their first chance to grill management on the buyout. But, in a potential disappointment for Wall Street, Michael Dell himself will not be present though he typically participates in post-earnings release calls.
The CEO recused himself from the discussion, given his leading role in the buyout, a company spokesman said.
Dell has lost 40 percent of its value since last year's peak, and is trying to reinvent itself as a seller of higher-margin services to corporations, an internal overhaul that would be conducted away from public scrutiny if the buyout goes forward.
The PC maker, whose profits fell 47 percent last quarter, is expected to report further erosion of both revenue and income next week.
Dell's revenue in the quarter is expected to slide almost 12 percent to $14.12 billion from $16.03 billion a year earlier, according to an average forecast of analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.
The company, once the world's top PC maker and a pioneer in computer supply chain management, is struggling to defend its market share against Asian rivals like Lenovo.
It was hurt also by a slide in holiday-season sales of personal computers for the first time in more than five years, despite the launch of Microsoft Corp's<MSFT.O> Windows 8 operating system. Microsoft itself is providing $2 billion in financing for Dell's buyout.
Dell's worldwide PC shipments fell nearly 21 percent to 9.48 million in the last three months of 2012, from 11.97 million in the same period a year ago.
Shares of Dell were steady at about $13.79 at midday.
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My most recent venture was an ecommerce company in China. The confluence of social, local, and mobile created opportunities that eventually created more than 5,000 direct competitors. I am very deliberate in the opportunities that I pursue because everything has an opportunity cost. I am fortunate that we caught the opportunity at the right time and executed sufficiently well enough for an eventual exit.
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I am Chairman at the Business Angel Network of Southeast Asia (BANSEA), where we are growing, managing, and leading the active angel investment community in Southeast Asia with a combination of education and investments.
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KOffice 2.0.0 Released
Submitted by hotice 2009-05-28 KDE 65 Comments
While most people focus on Microsoft Office and OpenOffice.org as being each other's competitors, there's a third player in this market: KOffice. While KOffice is obviously geared towards use on KDE, it's available for Windows, Mac OS X, and GNOME-based distributions as well, making it much more platform-independent than Microsoft's Office suite. Version 2.0.0 was released today, and comes with a whole boatload of improvements.
In what is now KDE tradition, this version 2.0.0 of KOffice is not yet on feature parity with the last release in the 1.x branch, KOffice 1.6. Several features that were part of 1.6 are not yet available in KOffice 2.0.0; in fact, entire applications that were in 1.6 are not yet here in 2.0.0. In the release announcement, the team states that future versions 2.1 and 2.2 will bring feature and application parity to the 2.x series. They have learned from KDE4's mistake: they state as clearly as humanly possible that KOffice 2.0.0 is not aimed at end users just yet. It is instead aimed towards early adopters and developers. Note, by the way, that said release announcement is riddled with spelling errors (what's their beef with the apostrophe?). I thought that was kind of funny considering its source project.
On to the goodness. KOffice 2.0 is the first release that takes full advantage of the improvements in Qt4 and KDE4, a task which took over 3 years to complete. Two improvements made along the way really stand out to me: a reworked and improved interface, and the concept of Flake Shapes. Since one of my prime interests has always been UI design and functioning, let's focus on the UI changes first.
Instead of just pumping out another Office 2003 UI re-implementation (like a certain other project insists on doing), the KOffice team sat down and designed their interface specifically for widescreen displays. Instead of using toolbars, they opted for placing tools in a sidebar. These tools can be torn off and treated as windows, docked on both sides, and so on. This brings some serious flexibility into the mix. While Office 2003 also supports dockable toolbars, which can also be placed on the sides, it doesn't look as elegant as what I'm seeing in KOffice 2.0.0. It feels like an afterthought in 2003.
Flake Shapes are basically clippings of a document which can be re-used in any other document in any other KOffice 2.0.0 application, providing good cross-application integration. "With Flake, any KOffice application can handle any shape. For instance, KWord can embed bitmap graphics, Krita can embed vector graphics and Karbon can embed charts." It also allows future applications to be created more easily.
KOffice 2.0.0 packages are already available for Gentoo, Ubuntu, and OpenSUSE. The Windows and Mac OS X releases are not yet available.
dagw
They have learned from KDE4's mistake: they state as clearly as humanly possible that KOffice 2.0.0 is not aimed at end users just yet.
They obviously haven't learned from KDE4's mistake. If they had they would have called it Koffice 2 Release candidate 1 or Developer release 1 or Test release 1 and made clear from the name that it's not ready for end users.
That being said, I'm super excited. I've always really koffice, and have always felt that it had great potential. I also felt that it's never really lived up to its potential with too many show stopping bugs or missing features. Hopefully Koffice 2 will be a great first step towards a great office suite.
Luminair
exactly. I think thom missed the point of the whole kde4 naming debacle when it happened
the distance between kde or koffice versions is measured in months. everyone else calls the test versions of the software "BETA", ever hear of it?
Ventajou
Don't forget though, in the Open Source world almost everything is Beta… maybe that's why they just don't bother.
everything beta, or most development effort goes unpaid, same for most marketing effort, users are needed to test it and devs to fix and extend it..
so here you go, you look at the marketing message of a humble effort to make something that is free for all.. some people try to make a difference.
in the mean time they enjoy coding, and get other less tangible benefits.
i for one think it all looks really slick. user ready and properly attractive.
and to the guy that doesnt like hte icons: if after using them for a while the icons feel really awkward, or hard to distinguish, i'll voice up for sure..
till that time:
SlackerJack
Still can't get over the 4.0 thing can you?
Apple's "Think Different" asks people to do such things, rather than do things like everyone else. if we didn't have people trying new methods, the world would be a boring place with no innovation and people following other people like sheep.
What are you talking about? I'm pretty sure I said that I have high hopes for koffice2, like that they're trying to do and generally very supportive of the project. I'm a huge supporter of trying new and different things, where did you get a different idea from?
Read your own first paragraph, it wasn't needed.
I was disagreeing with Thom's assessment of how koffice was handling their release. How is discussing a point made about the release of koffice in an article about the release of koffice not relevant?
Edit: and just to reiterate so there is no confusion. I'm a fan of koffice and I'm a fan of what they're trying to accomplish. I've been running the dev releases for almost a year now and I hope that koffice will soon become good enough for me to use as my main office suite.
tyrione
It's most certainly not stable and release ready.
From their own words:
http://www.koffice.org/wordpress/
Our goal for now is to release a first preview of what we have accomplished. This release is mainly aimed at developers, testers and early adopters. It is not aimed at end users, and we do not recommend Linux distributions to package it as the default office suite yet.
lemur2
exactly. I think thom missed the point of the whole kde4 naming debacle when it happened the distance between kde or koffice versions is measured in months. everyone else calls the test versions of the software "BETA", ever hear of it?
KOffice 2 went through about six beta and release candidate versions.
What is there is tested. The thing that makes KOffice 2 not suitable for most end users is a lack of features implemented yet, it is not a lack of testing.
PS: Correction. Seven beta versions:
http://dot.kde.org/2009/03/05/koffice-20-beta-7-released
… and AFAIK one release candidate:
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/koffice-2-rc
Au contraire, I'd say it was very likely to be better characterised as stable but not yet feature complete.
Microsoft called theirs "Vista" and Apple called theirs "10.0".
They obviously haven't learned from KDE4's mistake
Yes, expecting people to comprehend plain English and use their head is clearly the wrong way of doing things.
broken_symlink
Well, I would prefer to have them actually release something that is somewhat usable rather than have them turn into another e17.
If they had they would have called it Koffice 2 Release candidate 1
They have already had one of those, following after no less than seven betas. Apparently you missed it.
http://news.softpedia.com/news/KOffice-2-0-RC1-Has-Landed-108978.sh…
Apparently you missed it.
Well no I've actually used all the betas, as I've been following the development of koffice for a long time. I had forgotten that they'd already had a release candidate, but my point still stands.
How does it still stand?
Your point was some weird murmuring about how they should have named a release candidate as a release candidate.
They did in fact do exactly that.
My point was that calling a product X.0 and then adding a footnote stating that it actually isn't ready for use does not in any way show that "they have learned from KDE4's mistake".
I still think they should have called this a release candidate, which is what it is.
boudewijn
But it _is_ ready for use by the target group: developers (the platform is already being used to build a mindmapping application, a geolocation aware plugin, someone is using it for their thesis work, all outside KOffice). For that target group, we needed a release. For that target group, a .0 release is very relevant.
FFS, give it up already.
Every program undergoing a major rewrite has a ".0" version that doesn't yet implement full functionality. Every single one.
Even bloody GNOME 2.0 … no bloody audio, and lots else missing besides.
http://www.osnews.com/story/1280/A_User_s_First_Look_at_GNOME_2_0
Got it yet?
http://www.osnews.com/story/1280/A_User_s_First_Look_at_GNOME_2_0/p…
"I usually start my reviews with the positive points of a product and then continue with whatever I found as 'bad'. In this case, I just can't hide my dissapointment about the new version of Gnome. As a user, I expected more, and I want more. The new version removes the flexibility found on Gnome 1.x and it does not introduce anything really new or spectacularly interesting in its UI design. Gnome 2 fails to impress. It is not intuitive. It feels limited and not done yet. While it is not solidly stable yet on all of its respects, it is stable enough. But the 'not done yet' refers to the feature-set of the environment, not to its actual stability. It needs more work, it needs more enrichment at most places, and it needs even more refinement on the GUI and its scattered setting panels or on the small icons feeling 'glued' to the text on the menus. Because of this re-write of the Gnome environment, I keep feeling that this is version 1.0, and not 2.0."
"stating that it actually isn't ready for use"
It rather depends what you mean by "ready for use", doesn't it?
In less than 20 seconds, I had started Karbon14, drawn a yellow star, and saved it as a SVG file, and exited the application. Ten seconds later I had navigated to the file in Dolphin, and had opened it in Firefox and Gwenview and also re-opened it in Karbon14, which AFAIK is the only native Qt application which lets me do that (make .svg files).
http://ourlan.homelinux.net/qdig/KDE4_desktop/star.svg
(You won't be able to see that in IE).
This is beyond the capabilities of OpenOffice draw.
KDE4 icons are .svg files.
If I am a developer, and I want to make .svg files for my KDE4 project … I could use Inkscape or SK1 (which are GTK applications) … or I could use Karbon14 (a native Qt application, remember).
I then edited my .svg file and put a red smiley face inside the yellow star (OK … so I'm not an artist … is that a crime?)
http://ourlan.homelinux.net/qdig/KDE4_desktop/smiley-star.svg
So it does have uses, and it is perfectly stable enough.
It just isn't yet full-featured enough to recommend for general use.
Sorry … I forgot to mention the main purpose of scalable graphics files. If you have a capable browser (firefox, chrome, safari or opera will do), and you can see the .svg pictures … zoom in and out (ctrl + and ctrl – in firefox). Watch the pictures scale.
Can't do that with bitmaps.
Hiev
The UI althougth is designed for widescreen needs better defaults, for example, the font style would be more accessible if is located on the top and no on the bottom.
http://imagebin.org/50698
My favorite UI is the the one used in Lotus Smart Suite, to bad IBM killed it.
niemau
i guess this is good news. having choices is always good. although i'm not a kde user, koffice has long been a pretty strong suite of apps.
one complaint, though. take a look at the new logos for the apps. at first, i thought "hey, that's a cool new 'k' logo for the suite". then, i noticed there were new logos/icons for each of the apps. besides the main koffice logo, and the kword logo, the rest of them are absolutely rediculous. i get that they were trying to follow a theme of sorts, but geez. see below.
http://www.koffice.org/wordpress/wp-content/themes/whiteasmilk/logo…
these logos do *nothing* to convey (konvey?) what these apps do. bad design decision. sorry. bleh.
edit: i understand the desire to 'brand' these in a modern way. i just think these could use some light revision.
im a kde user..
i like the logo's, i dont think a logo has to convey that 'thing' yr talking about. pictograms do need. like toilet, elevator, departure and exit. they need to convey a clear thing.
logo's do often not, and that doesn't matter.. look at Mmmm, McMany logos of big brands. yet we know em all. NOVELL, Sun, MsOffice.
For the document logos should convey i think, and those do also.
I think the logo's are fresh'n'daring. Something new, and properly consistent. I also think they convey that KOffice is simple/basic, not a very direct quality, but some that actually mean something to most people that are soon to use it.
but again, im a KDE user – not not so much KOffice but i hope to be soon.
cies.
im a kde user.. i like the logo's, i dont think a logo has to convey that 'thing' yr talking about. pictograms do need.
i think you may have missed my point. i guess what i was trying to convey was that these logos, which will in all likelihood become the icons for the individual applications, do not obviously belong to the apps that they belong to. they are too abstract. if a user had, for example, an icon for each of those apps in his or her dock/panel, it would not be clear what apps they belonged to. the symbols on them are too vague. it would be very easy to (frustratingly) open the wrong app. since KDE 4 has been striving for user-friendliness, this seems to be a step backward.
aesthetically, they are obviously fine and modern. but that isn't enough. it's bad enough for a new user that some of the apps have overly vague names. kexi? krita? karbon? what's the likelihood that a new user is going to bother with the app when they can't easily see what it does without opening it? unfortunately, most people aren't as adventurous as the kinds of people that hang out on osnews.
Narishma
I think you're confusing logos and icons. They are separate. Those pictures you linked to are the logos. I don't think the developers have any intention to make them the icons of the applications.
i'm not confusing anything. as a matter of fact, i clearly referred to them as logos.
yet, the logos are very clearly styled like icons. it is fairly clear that those logos could go on to become the default icons for these apps. for branding consistency if nothing else.
they are vague. it's just my opinion.
Er, no. The logo's (designed by a professional artist, paid by nlnet, btw) are meant to be application logo's. The application icons are themable — oxygen, tango, whatever.
"it's bad enough for a new user that some of the apps have overly vague names. kexi? krita? karbon?"
Well, you know, all the good names are already taken. MyPaint, YouPaint, TheyPaint, ItPaint, WePaint…
Krita used to be called KImageShop — guess what? We were sued. Not too surprising really. KImageShop was renamed to Krayon. You know what? We were sued. By Freiherr-let's-pose-as-a-poor-teenage-girl-to-catch-c64-tape-pirates- von Gravenreuth on behalf of a website that peddled e-cards and was called Crayon. Kandinsky was mooted for a new name. There's already an Atari ST graphics application of that name. Krita means "to draw" or "chalk" in Swedish, so it's at least somewhat on topic. And we're getting quite a good name recognition, plus, google alerts on "krita" generally are about krita. When they are not about an American nurse for the elderly of Indonesian extraction, that is.
And, frankly, the name PhotoShop doesn't really convey much to me about what the application does, nor does a name like Excel or Oracle help a lot.
I think you attach too much value to the descriptiveness of application names. Uniqueness is much more important, as is pronunciability or memorability. Krita, Kexi and Karbon do pretty good in those respects.
don't take it personally. i wasn't trying to belittle those names by any means. it's more of a 'seeing the bigger picture' sort of thing. i just meant, since the names aren't particularly descriptive, it *could* help if the associated logos and/or icons would convey a little more info.
And, frankly, the name PhotoShop doesn't really convey much to me about what the application does, nor does a name like Excel or Oracle help a lot. I think you attach too much value to the descriptiveness of application names.
well, i've gotta disagree and say, 'PhotoShop' is pretty descriptive. but, i do agree with 'Excel'. luckily for MS, that particular app has a reputation that precedes it. and, to reiterate, it's not the descriptiveness of the name that is my main concern. (and concern is sort of a strong word… more of an observation.) basically, you can have a descriptive name or a descriptive logo/icon. without prior knowledge of an application, a new user probably won't bother.
but for what it's worth, i just found these:
http://pinheiro-kde.blogspot.com/2009/03/koffice-icons-2-highdef-on…
and they're pretty fantastic. the blog post says that these are 'application icons' but i am assuming they are actually mimetype icons maybe?
kaiwai
How about this; "KDE Office Spreadsheet", "KDE Office Wordprocessor", "KDE Office Collaboration Suite". Sure, it isn't sexy but at least the end user would have the vaguest clue as to the purpose of the application.
strcpy
What? Ridiculous?
iPhone, iTunes, iMac….
True, its funny given that the i used to stand for 'internet' as in, 'if you purchase this product you can get into the internet really fast' – that was back when (and still occuring today) where people think they must get on the internet, they don't know why, but apparently it is the 'next big thing' and they must be part of that 'big thing'.
With that being said, atleast it actually mentions what the purpose of the product is in the name, "iPhone", it's a phone, "iTunes" obviously something about music and playing it, "iMac" which used to be "Internet enabled Mac". Compare that to KOffice where there isn't any hint as to the purpose of the application in the name.
MamiyaOtaru
Compare that to KOffice where there isn't any hint as to the purpose of the application in the name.
aside from Kwrite, Kspread and Kpresenter?
Compare that to KOffice where there isn't any hint as to the purpose of the application in the name. aside from Kwrite, Kspread and Kpresenter?
How about Krita, Karbon etc. Absolutley no hint as to what they do. They're as descriptive as the Adamo by Dell, which sounds like some sort of cream that one would use on a rash further down stairs after being with a girl after a night you'd prefer never occured.
Pfft. You do talk utter rubbish.
Look at the picture:
http://ourlan.homelinux.net/qdig/?Qwd=./KDE4_desktop&Qiv=name&Qis=M
Karbon14 is for Scalable Graphics.
Krita is for Painting and Image Editing.
It says so right there in front of you.
Sheesh! Give it up, already!
BTW … look here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita
Krita is Swedish for crayon, from the verb "rita", to draw.
That is a lot more descriptive of what Krita does than "Excel" is of what Excel does.
http://ourlan.homelinux.net/qdig/?Qwd=./KDE4_desktop&Qiv=name&a…
And so Lemur2 keeps beating his chest with the same veracity that one would expect from a person who just found out that their mother had been punched.
Microsoft can use Excel because they have the marketing budget to launch a brand and educate consumers. KDE isn't a mega corporation, they don't have millions to spend on marketing to inform consumers – so they should make the names of the products as informative as possible.
By the way, who gives a sh*t whether it is Swedish or Swahili for something – no one cares. To most people a Krita is something small and dirty as in, "what an ugly looking krita lemur2 is".
You were wrong. Anyone who installed KOffice, and who can read, would know what Krita and Karbon14 and all the other applications were for. They would know it before they even got to run them for the first time, because in order to run them at all they would click on the text which presented a short description of what the programs do.
By the way, who gives a sh*t whether it is Swedish or Swahili for something – no one cares.
Temper temper. You really could do with being a little less bitchy, and have a tad more humility when you get shown to be wrong.
Weirdly enough, KWrite isn't part of KOffice :-). It's a plain text editor. Our word processor is called KWord (and I'm still suprised we haven't been sued for that…)
The threat of being sued for using a straightforward name for a software application is obviously the reason why weird names often have to be used in the first place.
That fact of life alone is, of course, in any sane analysis, complete justification for the KOffice project using names such as Krita and Karbon14 or whatever else doesn't get them sued.
Thankfully the KDE practice of including the applications name as well as its purpose on the menus completely negates any misguided criticism of the names that have had to eventually be chosen.
Those aren't names, those are descriptions mixed with vendor information. The descriptions are already shown in the startup menu of KDE, more prominently actually than the application name so you _already_ get those.
The purpose of each application forms the text of the menu entry via which you start the application.
Applications Menu –> Office —> Kword Word Processor
I have Lancelot menu settings set to "Show categories inside the applet", so that the Applications menu button is left-most in the panel, in the position where on Windows you would find the Start button. So it is literally just three clicks to start up.
The application name (in this case Kword) and its purpose (in this case, Word Processor) are on separate lines of the menu, next to the menu icon. The menu icon is a pencil, writing out the capital letter "W".
http://ourlan.homelinux.net/qdig/?Qwd=./KDE4%20desktop&Qiv=name…
It couldn't be simpler. Even you should have got "the vaguest clue" about what the application is, and what it does, from all that.
mabhatter
I always liked the KOffice suite of apps as they felt uniquely "Linux-y" rather than trying to copy the identity of something else. It looks like they've retooled for the next 3-5 years… something even the big boys do very rarely and they're just a small team.
The biggest problem I see to KOffice adoption is that the critical mass of distros use Gnome and including Koffice is easy, but it feels "heavy" to add back in most of KDE just for the office suite.
Maybe now that KDE is LGPL a distro will step back up.. I'd like to see Kubuntu done up right and fully polished and supported for all the new KDE/KOffice features. I always felt that KDE's ability to copy practically any other OS UI kept it from getting extensive work and support for its OWN identity and that's why it gets sidelined so often in distros.
Dasher42
KDE has a lot going for it, but even now, well into the 4.x series, I feel like it needs some UI polish. Gnome and OSX both seem careful to minimize the clicks and selections to get things done while KDE seems to keep imitating Windows. Oh sure, you can theme it pretty well, even customize it, but that great reusable framework perpetuates a Windows-influenced design.
So close to excellence, just noticeably not there.
KDE has a lot going for it, but even now, well into the 4.x series, I feel like it needs some UI polish. Gnome and OSX both seem careful to minimize the clicks and selections to get things done while KDE seems to keep imitating Windows.
Literally just three clicks, from a clean desktop, to start any KOffice application, including the click to bring up the top level menu.
Applications menu –> Office –> KWord
(The Applications menu button is the left-most icon in the panel).
Just one click required if you copy the menu icon to the desktop or to the panel or into any folder which has a folderview on the desktop.
No clicks at all if you set a hot-key.
There is a very clean UI for all the KOffice applications once they have started:
http://www.koffice.org/wordpress/krita/krita-screenshots/
http://www.koffice.org/wordpress/kword/kword-screenshots/
http://www.koffice.org/wordpress/kspread/screenshots/
http://www.koffice.org/wordpress/kpresenter/screenshots/
http://www.koffice.org/wordpress/karbon/karbon-screenshots/
Its like there is some kind of desperate competition going on to see who can come up with the most inane, and just plain wrong, criticism of KDE.
Seriously, where do people get this sort of nonsense from?
I practically live in Excel and I like having the entire width of my monitor for my spreadsheets. I don't know if the sidebar thing is a wise choice for KSpread.
With spreadsheets it really is a difficult choice.
Having a "wide" window can be wrong, as can be a "high" window.
Depends on the things you do with it.
mmueller
I have been using Karbon rc1 (the Vector Graphics editor) for some simple web banner design and it has been working really well. Actually seemed a little faster than inkscape on linux
stodge
KOffice and the whole starting application names with k is just old and tired. They really need to rebrand the KOffice suite competely; new name for the suite and a new name for each application too. Kexi? What is that? No idea. KSpread? Not a kool, I mean cool name.
ralsina
Names of database apps:
Kexi is at least as obvious as those.
Applications for GNOME very often include a "g" in their name.
Applications for Mac very often includ a "i" in their name.
Why are these not likewise "tired"?
On the KDE menus, applications are grouped into application categories and named after their function. The "k" in the application's name (only for some of the applications, BTW) is barely noticeable.
http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/images/screenshots/lancelot1.7-air….
http://lancelot.fomentgroup.org/screenshots
Amarok and Kontact application names appear on those menus, but the most visible text in the menu entries for those applications is "Audio Player" and "Personal Infromation Manager" respectively.
This is far better than on Windows where one finds applications typically grouped on the menus according to the vendor's name. One is expected to just know that the PDF viewer is produced by Adobe.
KOffice and the whole starting application names with k is just old and tired.
But not as old and tired as people complaining about the naming.
bornagainenguin
I wanted to give the Windows version a spin and followed the link given only to discover the site linked to doesn't even have Win32 listed as an option under its binaries section. Most people would have stopped right then and there, but I went hunting and eventually found and tried the kdewin-installer-gui…
What a joke! Look I understand that package-managers make it much easier for developers to manage code, push out updates, etc–but trying to bolt on a package-manager for Windows is just broken behavior for that platform plain and simple. I shouldn't have to sit there and try to figure out what libraries I may or may not need and whether or not the application I want is in packages A) B) or C).
I should be able to click through to download an installer and install my application. Furthermore I should be able to get everything in a lump download if that's what I want, not this retarded grab this tiny download-manager and download the application from the internet every time I want to install it! Being able to install software offline is one of the biggest advantages of Windows and it bothers me to lose it because the application developer wants to force platform inappropriate choices on the user.
As it was, I watched the installer download a bunch of random packages from the internet for awhile and then canceled the thing. I'll stick with OpenOffice.org–at least I know I can just stick it on a flashdrive for whenever I need it.
–bornagainpenguin
WereCatf
A package-manager is not "just broken behaviour" for Windows at all. It'd be equally awesome as it is in Linux IF it was as well supported, or if someone made an equally good package-manager as there are for Linux. The ones I've seen are more or less half-assed attempts at throwing together something that might or might not work.
It is possible to install apps for Linux without internet connection. You just might need to download a few packages instead of just one. It is still very much possible as usually the websites also provide links to any dependencies you might need. Still, it'd be nice if you had one single package, just for arguments sake let's call it SuperRPM, that you'd download from the net and would just double-click and install it. The file itself would just hold the regular RPM-file and its dependies, so the system would only install those dependencies from there if needed. Hell, a single .zip file renamed to .superrpm with files "MyApp.rpm", "Dependency1.rpm" and "Dependency2.rpm" would suffice for that and still make installation A LOT easier than it currently is.
WereCatf posted…
It is possible to install apps for Linux without internet connection. You just might need to download a few packages instead of just one. It is still very much possible as usually the websites also provide links to any dependencies you might need.
I'm not talking about Linux here, I'm talking about Windows, where the default method for handling application installation (like it or hate it) is via individual application installers, which install the application plus all related dependencies as one package. The Linux way works well on Linux and should not change, the Windows way works…well..ahem… on that system and I think applications should conform to the standards of the OS they are installed in.
The idea behind the package manager is that no one wants to download all of Qt and kdelibs 50 times to install 50 apps, or to make a simple IM installer be 100MB+ to include all the dependencies.
However, it is annoying if you're just trying to grab a single app. I think eventually certain apps like KOffice and Amarok will provide stand alone installers, but I don't know when that will happen. I don't think Windows development is a priority, really, they're trying to attract more developers who can make it integrate better while the existing ones are mostly focusing on Linux still.
I know that both the kde-windows as well as the kde-mac people are investigating things like CPack to make standalone installers for those platforms of KDE software. But it is a hard problem that isn't solved yet. In fact, I don't think KOffice 2.0 has been packaged for Windows at all, although I have seen Patrick Spendrin make commits towards that goal.
But the kind of conceited hyperbole bornagainpenguin spews does a great injustice to the really great and hard work the kde-windows people have done. There are very few of them and they are doing great and pioneering work. Is the result perfect already? No. Can bornagainpenguin do any better? Unless he proves it, I'll assume he is incapable of doing that. Just as he is incapable of reading the KOffice 2.0 release announcement and understanding the target audience of this platform release.
And anyone who has ever had to package Windows software using an installer, whether bitrock, nsis or msi, knows that that is not an easy thing. Completely apart from the crt-problem, there are so many vagaries associated with making an installer that for larger software projects it's a full-time effort in itself.
boudewijn sneered…
[T]he kind of conceited hyperbole bornagainpenguin spews does a great injustice to the really great and hard work the kde-windows people have done. There are very few of them and they are doing great and pioneering work.
And mostly what they have are toys. I remember the hype around cygwin, and how it went exactly nowhere over the years despite the excitement generated. I personally have always thought it was at least in part due to the complicated installation procedure people lost interest. Now when I see these same types of errors repeating with another interesting project…what should I do? Bury my head in the sand and pretend everything is great?
Is the result perfect already? No. Can bornagainpenguin do any better? Unless he proves it, I'll assume he is incapable of doing that. Just as he is incapable of reading the KOffice 2.0 release announcement and understanding the target audience of this platform release.
ad hominem much?
I'm not saying it would be easy, I'm just saying it is worthwhile. Certainly better than implementing yet another package-manager for Windows that will simply get re-invented the next time someone else comes up with the bright idea to shoe-horn Unix methods into a Windows system. Unless we were talking about something used all throughout the system it is useless to create yet another package-manager that the average Windows user won't use any way.
The application works, is supposedly available for the platform, so why not just get it on that platform with as few hoops as possible?
bornagainpenguin, I'm pretty sure Windows is not an officially supported platform for KOffice. At best, it's in the alpha/beta stage. So it seems a little odd that you've spent so many posts complaining about how it doesn't have a very good windows installer. I mean, there is a lot of stuff in KOffice2 that's only half finished, so it's a little curious that you've picked that to harp on.
Accept that you're doing something that isn't a focus of the project yet, and live with it. Or better yet, try to fix it if you can.
I don't think anyone here has disagreed with you that the existing system needs to be improved, but your style here is coming off as a big rant rather than a useful suggestion.
smitty posted…
I have less issues with the requirement for libraries and more of one with the bolting on of a package-manager on a system that doesn't use it. I understand the applications will have library requirements, but since this is KOffice we're talking about here, shouldn't it be much easier to just install the suite of applications KOffice comes with and all dependencies from a single installer? One that I can download all at once in a zip file?
I don't think Windows development is a priority, really, they're trying to attract more developers who can make it integrate better while the existing ones are mostly focusing on Linux still.
It never seems to be, does it? Yet I first used Firefox, OpenOffice.org, Frozen Bubbles, ZSNES, VLC, etc etc on Windows, not Linux. Then when I did move to Linux for most of my daily stuff I was pleased to have those applications there for me, that I'd already become accustomed to using on Windows.
PS: Sorry for the time between posts–I was scheduled to go see Star Trek again and I wasn't about to miss it for anything.
moltonel
Look I understand that package-managers make it much easier for developers to manage code, push out updates, etc–but trying to bolt on a package-manager for Windows is just broken behavior for that platform plain and simple.
Funny, last time I installed MSOffice (granted, a long time ago), it looked very much like a package manager : a big tree of features to install, insatll-on-request, or exclude. The only thing it lacked to be a proper package manager is handling of updates.
I've also seen the "installer which downloads the program" concept more than once in the Windows world, done by Microsoft, Adobe, and probably others.
I shouldn't have to sit there and try to figure out what libraries I may or may not need and whether or not the application I want is in packages A) B) or C).
Good ! That's what a package manager is designed to save you from.
Furthermore I should be able to get everything in a lump download if that's what I want
It sounds tempting… But you seem to underestimate the amount of dependencies that need to be downloaded. What would you say if a program packaged dotnet, DirectX, and half a dozen minor libraries in its one-file installer ? And again for every further release, even though the versions of bundled libraries don't change ? And make a whole new release when that small lib is found to have a security flaw ? And include that big package (say Kexi/Access) which you never use ? This is what you're asking for when you ask for one big zipfile.
Package managers are a Good thing. On Windows, most decent non-trivial programs end up (re)implementing one in one form or another, if only to manage updates. It's a mess, but better than the alternative. On Linux, the package manager is included with the OS. It's a pain that it's a different one for every distribution, but at least it's only one per distribution.
Being able to install software offline is one of the biggest advantages of Windows and it bothers me to lose it because the application developer wants to force platform inappropriate choices on the user.
I expect the installer allows you to install from allready-downloaded packages, no ? If not, it's certainly a valid feature request to send.
As it was, I watched the installer download a bunch of random packages from the internet for awhile and then canceled the thing.
Then you really didn't give the system any chance. Especially considering Koffice 2.0 is not targeted at general users, and KDE-on-Windows is a young, amazing-it-works-at-all project.
Adam Scheinberg
This is very cool. I hope more people use KOffice, because a capable non OpenOffice.org suite is definitely ALWAYS a good thing.
I agree. Ik ben het er mee eens. Du hast recht. C'est agréable.
I'm more interested in Krita myself. GIMP is good and all, but I really, really seriously hate how it is split up in several windows and it feels like a mess. That Krita looks cleaner and more coherent, though in the screenshots there's quite a lot of wasted screen real-estate there. I'd also like it a lot more if it was a GTK+ app since I don't use a single Qt app at the moment.
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Alberta's energy exports to rebound next year, EDC says
The EDC says there is 'light at the end of the tunnel' for Alberta's oil exporters with shipments rebounding next year as the cost of crude climbs back
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OTTAWA — Despite a drastic drop in energy prices, and its knock-down effect on export earnings, companies in Alberta's oilsands could still rebound next year as the cost of crude begins to climb back up.
That's a scenario Canadian companies are likely counting on, but one that depends on a number of pieces falling together.
"This will be a difficult year for Alberta exports, but there is light at the end of the tunnel," said Peter Hall, chief economist at Export Development Canada.
"The continued revival of the global economy, driven by U.S. growth, and the anticipated rise in oil prices back to the $70-per-barrel level will fuel the expected turn-around next year."
So far, however, this year has been a major disappointment for the oil patch — given that crude now trading just below US$60 a barrel, off its lows but still only about half its value of a year ago.
In a report Wednesday, the EDC forecast the plunge in both oil and gas prices will cut Alberta's total export earnings in 2015 by 17 per cent.
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Oil price plunge could cost Canada 185,000 jobs this year, agency warns
Petroleum exports, alone, will tumble 25 per cent this year, while natural gas exports will slide 23 per cent, "which is significant for an economy that depends on energy for nearly 75 per cent of its export revenue," the federal financing and insurance agency said.
But a partial price recovery and an increase in the volume of shipments could actually lift Alberta's total exports next year by as much as 19 per cent, the agency said.
"The energy sector is expected to bounce back with 27 per cent growth in 2016," it said. "Natural gas will stage a significant, yet less dramatic, comeback with nine per cent growth in 2016, due largely in part to increased shale gas capacity in the U.S."
The energy sector aside, the EDC's export outlook remains positive for many of Alberta's other industries — much, of course, will be dependent on the strength of the U.S. economy and growth in other export markets.
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» Faculty of Medicine » Home » About » Conference Planning Committee
Dr. Susan Forwell
Dr. Forwell is Professor and the Department Head of the UBC Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy, a senator on the UBC Senate, Research Associate with the UBC MS/NMO clinic and the International Collaboration of Research and Discovery (ICORD), and an affiliate researcher of Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) and Fraser Health Authority (FHA). Her areas of research and teaching are in occupational science, neuro-rehabilitation, and community integration. Her recent work includes development of a model that supports life transitions from an occupational perspective. Dr. Forwell is a sub-editor of the Journal of Occupational Science and a member of the health care advisory council of the Multiple Sclerosis Association of America. Recent recognitions for her work include: Townsend-Polatajko Occupational Science Lectureship (Canadian Society of Occupational Scientists) in 2016, the Outstanding Occupational Therapist of the Year (Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists – British Columbia) in 2017 and the distinguished Muriel Driver Lectureship (Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists) in 2019.
Dr. Suzanne Huot
Conference Vice-Chair and ISOS Liaison
Dr. Huot is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy at the University of British Columbia. She is also a board member of the International Society for Occupational Science, having recently served two consecutive terms as Board Chair. Dr. Huot obtained her PhD in Occupational Science in 2011 from the University of Western Ontario, where she studied the integration of racialized French-speaking immigrants and refugees into Canadian society. Her ongoing program of research examines the relationship between daily occupations and community spaces in the social participation, and social and cultural integration of immigrants and refugees, with a particular focus on social cohesion within Canadian Francophone minority communities. Dr. Huot is co-lead of UBC Migration, an interdisciplinary research excellence cluster, and was chosen as a Leading Scholar by UBC's Green College.
Dr. Julia Henderson
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Dr. Henderson is an occupational therapist, professional actor, qualitative researcher, and age studies scholar. In addition to her work in UBC's OSOT Department, Dr. Henderson is also a Postdoctoral Fellow with Concordia University's Department of Communication Studies and Ageing+Communications+Technologies Project (https://actproject.ca/) where her research involves collaborative performance creation with people living with dementia. She is also Creative Accessibilities Facilitator for Western Gold Theatre, a professional senior theatre company in Vancouver. Dr. Henderson's research has been published in AJOT, Work, The Journal of American Drama and Theatre, Theatre Research in Canada, Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, Age, Culture, Humanities: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Canadian Theatre Review, and the Thornton Wilder Journal. She has been recipient of a number of emerging scholar awards including for best paper at the Trent Aging 2019 conference. Dr. Henderson is Vice-Chair of the North American Network in Aging Studies (NANAS) Governing Council. She recently co-edited the first special issue of Theatre Research in Canada to address topic of "Age and Performance"; the issue has been nominated for two editing awards.