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A Nicer Query Builder Widget

The widget

After 10 days of vacations, I’m now back at work for the rest of the GSoC period. Before my departure, I presented a syntax-highlighted query builder widget. It was based on a QTextEdit made to look like a QLineEdit, and a QSyntaxHighlighter subclass was responsible for the highlighting.

The result was quite nice, but not as nice as what Ivan Čukić imagined for this control. Since the first instant I saw his mockup, I wanted to have a widget like that in Nepomuk. The problem is that such a widget is very difficult to implement (and even more to implement correctly), and that I haven’t found any existing code on Google, and the only application using this widget I know of is Yahoo! Mail. I therefore decided to implement this widget myself.

General Idea

The code of the widget lives in my branch of the nepomuk-widgets repository. Even though I tried to keep the widget general (the GroupedLineEdit class does not reference any Nepomuk class), I don’t think it can already be useful to other projects. Don’t hesitate to prove me wrong, though. If this widget one time becomes general enough and more sane than it is currently, I would like to have it merged into Qt (the widget doesn’t use any KDE class).

The widget

The idea of the widget is to “group” terms into blocks. A block is a rounded rectangle, each of a different color, and having a small cross. When the user clicks the cross, the group is deleted. The blocks must be completely cosmetic for the user. That means that the full query builder still needs to behave like a QLineEdit: the user must be able to move the cursor using the arrow keys of his or her keyboard, and the cursor must not be stuck at one end of a block. It must be able to flow from a block to the next or the previous. The user must also be able to add text anywhere, even between blocks.

Blocks are added to the widget by the application, one at a time. Blocks cannot be removed, but the widget can be cleared (every block is removed, the text being preserved). When blocks need to change, the application thus clears all the blocks, then re-add the ones it needs. This is not the most efficient operation, but doing otherwise would have greatly complicated the API and the code itself.

Flowing From a Line Edit to Another One

Flowing” is an operation needed when there is two line edits next to each other. When the user presses the arrow keys, the cursor moves in one of the line edits. What I want is to detect when the user tried to move left/right when the cursor was already at the left/right of one line edit. When that occurs, the cursor is placed at the right/left of the previous/next line edit. [ ][| ], with the vertical bar representing the cursor, …read more

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After a year at Yahoo, Mayer still sprinting to catch up

Since taking the reins as Yahoo’s CEO a year ago this week, Marissa Mayer has set out to revamp the struggling Internet company with a series of rapid fire acquisitions that could make even her former colleagues at Google envious.

In a strategy she has described as “a series of sprints,” Mayer has bought more than a dozen companies this year alone, mostly in pursuit of her goal of taking the lead in mobile, and to bring back the cool to a brand that was once the envy of Silicon Valley but somehow came to symbolize the very opposite of innovation.

She’s had some success, especially on the financial side. Yahoo’s stock has risen roughly 70 percent since Mayer started there on July 17 last year, and analysts expect a 12 percent jump in profit when Yahoo reports its quarterly earnings Tuesday.

But it’s a long haul to make a tarnished brand shiny and new again, and despite buying up youthful brands like Tumblr, and revamping services like Flickr and Yahoo Mail, analysts say Mayer still has a way to go before she can claim to have brought Yahoo back from the brink.

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Yahoo slims down, again, trashing Deals, SMS Alerts

Yahoo is giving itself a bit of a makeover. Earlier this week it launched two new mobile apps for email and weather; now it’s ditching numerous longstanding products, including Deals and SMS Alerts, in an attempt to sharpen its focus, the company announced Friday.

Effective April 30, the following products will be no more: Upcoming, an event discovery service; Deals, for finding bargains, coupons and retail sales; SMS Alerts, which lets users stay up-to-date on a slew of topics; Kids, which features games and educational resources; and Yahoo’s Mail and Messenger apps for feature phones.

Also, as of June 3, the older versions of Yahoo Mail, including Yahoo Mail Classic, will no longer be available, the company said. In their stead, users can switch to Yahoo’s new Mail system, “which is fast and easier to use,” Yahoo said.

The moves are all part of the company’s ongoing efforts to restructure its product offerings in a bid to re-engage users in an era of smartphones, always-connected mobile devices and social apps. Yahoo, unlike Google, Facebook, Twitter or Apple, does not currently have any dedicated social network or mobile devices of its own.

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Yahoo Uneils New Noise-Free Email Template for Tablets

Yahoo is revamping their image with a brand new email app for your mobile device.  The latest update to Yahoo! Mail, available today on Android and iOS, gives users a vastly improved email experience.

The most striking sight in the new Yahoo Mail may be the full-screen email viewing option.  It sounds simple, but it may be innovative enough to help Yahoo gain some steam in the mobile market.  The new version allows you to bring an email out to fill the entire screen, after which you can flip through emails just like turning pages on a magazine.  Yahoo hopes that this, along with a reorganized, split-screen home base and improved sorting options, will help get “rid of the noise.”

“Tablets have changed the way we experience books, photos, movies, and more,” said Lee Parry, Senior Director of Yahoo Mobile.  Parry also noted that “email, something we do every day, has remained pretty much the same.”The new, more streamlined Yahoo Mail is intended improve the entire email experience, and sports a sharper, cleaner look than previous versions.  Yahoo decluttered the interface and streamlined the operation in an effort to make it easier for users to find, read, and organize their emails.

The outstanding capabilities of our mobile devices, particularly those powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon processors, have augmented the demand for more capable, and more sophisticated applications.  It makes perfect sense that programs we use every day, like an email client, should embrace every new possibility.

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Yahoo!'s Brilliant Move to the Cloud

By Doug Ehrman, The Motley Fool

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Yahoo! recently announced that it’s partnering with dropbox to offer more comprehensive services to users of Yahoo! Mail. As a part of the company’s push to revamp its image and reclaim lost market share, the move shows great promise. Along similar lines, the company is engaged in early discussions with Apple to deepen the relationship between the search company and Cupertino.

In the following video, contributor Doug Ehrman discusses the actions Yahoo! is taking, the potential impact these moves may have on users, and the investment ramifications, particularly if these enhancements are successful.

There’s no doubt that Apple is at the center of technology’s largest revolution ever and that longtime shareholders have been handsomely rewarded, with more than 1,000% gains. However, there is a debate raging as to whether Apple remains a buy. The Motley Fool’s senior technology analyst and managing bureau chief, Eric Bleeker, is prepared to fill you in on both reasons to buy and reasons to sell Apple and what opportunities are left for the company (and your portfolio) going forward. To get instant access to his latest thinking on Apple, simply click here now.

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Could Outlook alter the sorry state of email apps for Windows RT?

Windows RT users have a hard life. Not only are they locked out of the Windows desktop ecosystem thanks to RT’s ARM-based processor architecture, but they face a limited supply of great app choices on the Windows Store are limited. Sure, we’ve seen a few nice additions lately—a barebones official Twitter client here, an equally barebones MLB.TV app there, and Nokia Music. But if you bought your RT device to get some work done, your app choices remain few and far between.

Microsoft has made some steady improvements to the built-in Mail app for Windows 8, but that client only covers the basics such as folder management and flagging messages. Power user features from Outlook like working with notes and tasks, color coding, and easy calendar integration are non-existent.

Beyond Microsoft’s built-in app, the Windows Store currently suffers from a dearth of mail clients. If you have a Yahoo account, you can get the official Yahoo Mail client, and there’s a smattering of third-party Gmail apps. For generic IMAP/POP email clients, there’s nothing worth your time. Business users requiring an Exchange client can get Nitrodesk’s TouchDown for $20. But TouchDown for Windows 8 and Windows RT has so far earned a three-star rating on the Windows Store; user reviews there cite complaints about poor functionality and slow response times.

So what’s an RT user to do: Use nothing but Web apps? Not for long, if the latest rumors are to be believed. Microsoft watcher Paul Thurrott on Thursday reported seeing with his own eyes the desktop version of Outlook running on a Surface for Windows RT tablet during a recent trip to Microsoft’s campus. Thurrott’s sneak peek at Outlook RT was unofficial and came via representatives from Microsoft third-party business partners who were given early access to the app.

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Yahoo! Mail Partners With Dropbox

By Kevin Chen, The Motley Fool

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Yahoo! Mail has partnered with Dropbox to make it easier for people to send, receive, and manage attachments, the company announced yesteday.

The integration allows customers to access files from their Dropbox account and share them through Yahoo! Mail. Currently, Dropbox is available within Yahoo! Mail in English, French, Spanish, German, and Italian. 

The new partnership comes after CEO Marissa Mayer announced a newer version of Yahoo! Mail in December. Redesigned to get customers through their email faster, the company says Yahoo! Mail now has a consistent experience across the Web, Windows 8, iPhone/iPod touch, and Android.

In March, Dropbox announced it had bought the privately held email management app company called Mailbox.

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Review: CloudMagic Lives Inside Windows 8

CloudMagic has gone Metro. The excellent search service, which I’ve been a fan of since it made its debut in 2010, is now available as a native application for Windows 8’s Metro interface. CloudMagic’s Windows 8 edition still delivers super-speedy, accurate search results across a host of services, but it is a bit hamstrung by some of Windows 8’s own problems.

You can download the CloudMagic app from Microsoft’s Windows Store, and it installs quickly. If you already have a CloudMagic account, the app remembers all of your settings, and doesn’t need much in the way of set up: You log in and you’re good to go.

If you don’t have a CloudMagic account already, the signup process is simple, and it’s easy to link the services you’d like it to search. CloudMagic currently searches the following services: AOL, Box, Dropbox, Evernote, Facebook, Gmail, Google Apps, Google Drive, Google Talk, GMX, Hotmail, iCloud, Mail.com, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync, Microsoft Office 365, MSN, Outlook.com, SkyDrive, Twitter, Windows Live, and Yahoo Mail. You simply grant CloudMagic access to the accounts you’d like it to search, and it goes to work indexing them.

While the basics are the same, the actual experience of using CloudMagic as a Windows 8 Metro app is very different from using it in your browser, as an extension. Where the browser extension displays results right on the Web page you’re viewing, the Metro app is its own standalone app. You search from within the app itself and see all of the results in there, too.

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Report: Yahoo! Loses Mail and Messenger Chief

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Vivek Sharma has left Yahoo! , according to Kara Swisher at AllThingsD, who cites “numerous sources.”

Sharma joined Yahoo! in 2009 after eight years as a McKinsey & Co. consultant. For the past year, he’s been general manager of Yahoo! Mail and Messenger, leading a team of 300 product managers, designers, and engineers, according to his LinkedIn profile. Mail and Messenger are two of Yahoo!’s more popular products. Mail, in particular, served some 281 million accounts as of December.

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Microsoft’s New Outlook Email Is An Improvement, But Not A Game Changer

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NEW YORK (AP) — Longtime users of Hotmail, MSN and other Microsoft email services will start noticing a big change: When they sign in to check messages, they’ll be sent to a new service called Outlook.com.

You might be thinking, isn’t Outlook the software Microsoft Corp. makes for people to use email at work? Indeed it is, but Microsoft is now adopting that brand for personal, Web-based email services as well. It’s part of a broad makeover that includes the company’s overhaul of the Windows operating system and the Office software suite.

There’s little relationship between the two Outlooks apart from the name. That’s good. The Outlook Web App I use for checking work email at home feels like an adaptation of software meant to be installed on work computers, rather than something designed from the start to play to the Web’s strengths. The consumer Outlook.com, on the other hand, feels the way Web email should. It bears more similarities with consumer-based email services, such as Google’s Gmail and Yahoo Mail, than with the corporate Outlook.

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Yahoo Mail revamped with cleaner, less cluttered look

Yahoo has given its email service a complete revamp across the Web and mobile devices, with a cleaner and less cluttered interface. The updated Yahoo Mail will be available on the Web, as well as on Windows 8 and Android and iOS.

The facelift is the first major change to the service since former Google executive Marissa Mayer took the helm of Yahoo this year. Mayer announced the changes to Yahoo Mail in a blog post, saying: “You’ve told us loud and clear that you want fewer distractions when it comes to email.”


On the Web version, Yahoo Mail’s design has fewer buttons, attachment thumbnail previews on top of messages, improved search and a roomy reading and composing message panel.
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