Re: [Ayatana] How to disable Music Available for Purchase

2011-10-10 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 11 Oct 2011, Thibaut Brandscheid wrote:
 How to turn the 'Available for Purchase' function in Oneiric off?

  sudo apt-get remove unity-scope-musicstores

Should remove the component in question.

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] make adding ppas easier

2011-09-04 Thread Paul Sladen
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011, Christian Rupp wrote:

Hello Christian,

 find a way in the middle. …checked ppas get an easy to add link.

Indeed, at the moment any PPA can provide (and override) any package
in the system.  Separating out archives that can provide core system
infrastructure, from leaf-node PPAs providing add-on functionality
would probably enable much of what you're after.

This could be done with signing keys; large organisations (clusters,
universities, corporates) who still want to override core
functionality locally could just add their own trusted keys to the
Ubuntu-derived system images they give users.

-Paul



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[Ayatana-commits] [Merge] lp:~sladen/indicator-session/indicator-session-system-devices-naming into lp:indicator-session

2011-08-18 Thread Paul Sladen
Paul Sladen has proposed merging 
lp:~sladen/indicator-session/indicator-session-system-devices-naming into 
lp:indicator-session.

Requested reviews:
  Indicator Applet Developers (indicator-applet-developers)

For more details, see:
https://code.launchpad.net/~sladen/indicator-session/indicator-session-system-devices-naming/+merge/72122

Adjust icon names per email of 2011-08-09.
-- 
https://code.launchpad.net/~sladen/indicator-session/indicator-session-system-devices-naming/+merge/72122
Your team ayatana-commits is subscribed to branch lp:indicator-session.
=== modified file 'src/indicator-session.c'
--- src/indicator-session.c	2011-08-12 12:23:35 +
+++ src/indicator-session.c	2011-08-18 23:46:18 +
@@ -498,8 +498,7 @@
 }
   }
   else if (g_strcmp0(signal_name, RebootRequired) == 0) {
-// TODO waiting on design to give me a name.
-self-devices.image = indicator_image_helper (system-devices-alert-panel);
+self-devices.image = indicator_image_helper (system-devices-panel-alert);
   }  
 }
 

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Re: [Ayatana] Oneiric customization

2011-07-15 Thread Paul Sladen
On Fri, 15 Jul 2011, Roth Robert wrote:

Hello Robert,

You've clearly done your research!  Some of the links you dug up I
hadn't even seen, so you might be in a better position to answer this
than I, but I also don't want you to think that you're in an empty
room and not getting a reply just because you've done the research!

Two weeks ago in Dublin a bunch of the people working on Gtk3, GNOME,
LightDM certainly were having some discussions that covered these two
specific topics (wallpapers and screensavers).  Those directly
involved may be able to provide some better input, for /my/
memory of those discussions…

 what customization options will Oneiric have
average users will have the default background

…my understanding is that yes, the user will be able to change the
wallpaper.  It would be boring otherwise!  I believe that the primary
method will be via the Control Centre (sorry, I haven't upgraded to
Oneiric on this laptop yet to check easily), but I had a feeling that
it was the first option offered in the GNOME3 Settings/Control Centre.

There are likely to be other contextual methods too, such as the Image
Viewer option you mention.  Indeed, some of the recent user-testing
written up by mpt and Charline has highlighted that tested route via
Settings/Control Centre is not easily found (people had to be
explicitly asked to /not/ right-click on the Desktop to change the
wallpaper!), see:

  https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2011-April/032988.html

Changing the wallpaper (which is ever-present from boot-up to
shutdown) is an important customisation and personalisation
opportunity so is likely to be retained for the forseable future.

- changing the screensaver is not possible

The major driver here has been people demanding more battery life.  
Sadly screensavers weren't designed to save power, but instead to save
phosphor from burning in CRTs.

I believe at the moment that the screensaver runs for just a few
minutes before vanishing and allowing the screen to turn off anyway.

How this pans out, we'll have to see.  But it's fairly likely that
even with a switch to LightDM for the login manager in Ubuntu 11.10,
that Ubuntu will follow the upstream GNOME3 choice and not enable
screensavers by default.

Of course, there are many choices: Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu...  in
order to ship a stable LightDM/Unity/Ubuntu within the power curves
expected, and within the fixed timeline the priorisations will
probably be elsewhere.

That's not to say that you couldn't work on it, or write a howto and
propose both/either; just that for the main designers/developers
working on something extra that is also known to introduce power-
envelope regressions is unlikely to be a main priority (time is more
valuably spent on other parts of the stack that /need/ to be done or 
stablised during the Ubuntu 11.10 release cycle).

 affecting the general look of the system (selecting one of the two official
 Ubuntu themes, ambiance or radiance, selecting another font/font size, maybe
 icon theme).

I think these should all be fine and accessible in the GNOME3 Control
Centre.

 we ... don't have a fully functional app for personalizing ubuntu

I wouldn't worry.  Similiar to the 'gnome-tweak-tool' that you
mentioned, an Unity tweak tool popped in within about 24 hours!

  
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/04/ubuntu-unity-2d-tweaking-tool-lets-you-adjust-the-launcher-dash-enable-compositing/
  
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/03/unity-personalization-how-much-can-you-really-do/

Perhaps you'll even be one of the author(s) of it!  :-)

-Paul




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Re: [Ayatana] Alt-Tab and switching - 1 level or 2?

2011-04-14 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 14 Apr 2011, Pippa Kyle wrote:
 a. Already being in a Terminal (currently Alt-tab-tab-tab)
 b. Needing to switch from a Firefox window? (Alt-tab-tab-tab-tab)
 We're thinking maybe:
 ...

If I understand correctly?

  a. From another Terminal  Alt-*long pause*-tab-tab-tab
  b. From a Firefox window  Alt-Tab-*long pause*-tab-tab-tab

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Alt-Tab and switching - 1 level or 2?

2011-04-13 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 13 Apr 2011, Pippa Kyle wrote:
 When using Alt-Tab for switching between windows, would you like windows 
 of a particular app grouped under that app?

Thank you Pippa!  Could you describe how a second-level selection
might work?

For instance, if I have fifteen full-screen terminals open, how would
the selection process work if I wanted to switch to the
third-to-most-recent Terminal, from:

  a. Already being in a Terminal (currently Alt-tab-tab-tab)
  b. Needing to switch from a Firefox window? (Alt-tab-tab-tab-tab)

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Alt-Tab and switching

2011-04-12 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 12 Apr 2011, Pippa Kyle wrote:

Hello Pippa, greetings!

 Personally I like the Windows way, as the window preview

It's been a while (a decade) since I was regularly using MS Windows
machines, and I expect that there may have been a few revisions in the
mean-time!

Would you be able to describe in prose form or with screenshots what
the precise behaviours you've got in mind are?  This would make it
easier for people less familiar with those platforms to follow along.

I think my own observations about Alt-Tab are that I don't really look
at the dialogues presented and mainly rely on Alt-Tab acting as a
reliable LIFO stack (most recent first).  For your request, is it the
behaviour itself that you're looking into, or just the accompanying
user-interface and visible arrangement?

-Paul



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Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-17 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 17 Mar 2011, Xavier Guillot wrote:
 - For me it is not a problem that window title hides the menu at first 

I bet there's a possible solution somewhere with
blurring/transparaceny.

The model used with the notification pop-ups is that they are
transparent to click-events and blur/fade when moused-over, which is
effectively what the window-title/menu also does on mouse-over.

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Design problem: Menus hidden by default in Unity

2011-03-16 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
 Do you know of any Ubuntu application that was trying to use its menu
 titles as an indicator in the first place?

The Gimp and various other MDI applications prepend an asterisk ('*')
to the front of the window title to show an edited, but unsaved work.

Whilst I am aware of the convention, I don't notice it and there are
probably better ways of conveying if your machine naughtily crashes
right now $some unspecified amount of work will be lost.

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Unity Dock Icons behavior - Context Menu

2011-03-10 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Xavier Guillot wrote:
 - Keep in launcher
 - Quit
 and a third one to launch another window of the program ...
 Now this possibility disappeared, it's available with middle click.

Hello Xavier.  I've leaned over the table and enquired about this, and
John has told me that the middle-click shortcut is supposed to be *in
addition* to the means of opening a new window via the right-click
QuickList.

Apparently it's a co-incidence that one temporarily disappeared
whilst the other was being introduced.

-Paul



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[Ayatana] Global menu/indicator synchronisation

2011-02-21 Thread Paul Sladen
I noticed this interesting behaviour today---I must have been
subconsciously aware of it before, but didn't think twice about:

  a. Click on File menu, scrub with mouse to indicators
 (Menus stay visible)

  b. Click on Indicators and scrub to File menu
 (Menus toggle back and forth)

I don't have an opinion on correctness---but possibly other people
might! ;-)

-Paul



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Re: [Ayatana] Menu bar integrated in title bar in Unity

2011-02-18 Thread Paul Sladen
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011, Luke Benstead wrote:
 On 18 February 2011 13:23, Andrew Laignel a.laig...@sportsweb.biz wrote:
  https://wiki.mozilla.org/File:Firefox-4-Mockup-i06-%28Win7%29-%28Aero%29-%28TabsTop%29.png
   *cough*
 Err... yeah, like that :)

These kinds of menus are okay for very seldomly-used ones---such as
those in a browser, or an instant messaging application---but I've
never been particularly keen on them for menus that actually have to
be *used* (word-processor, drawing application, ...).

My understanding is that humans remember grids: across, then down.

When that type of vertical menu is: down, down, down, ... the instant
positional memory is not there.  My best regular example of this is
the huge right-click menu in GIMP.  After a decade of near-daily use I
still don't have a mental model of what that menu looks like, other
than knowing that the option I want is somewhere in 2-3 layers of
side-ways shuffling.

Admittedly I quite happily used the similiarly ballooning side-ways
menus in RiscOS for several years prior to that; compare:

  http://i.ytimg.com/vi/RLXilJdXGMo/0.jpg (RiscOS !Draw)
  http://math.hws.edu/eck/cs120/f02/lab4/gimp_menus.gif (GIMP)

-Paul




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Re: [Ayatana] Ubuntu Font as default for web site

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 9 Feb 2011, cyrildz wrote:

Hello Ngassam,

 Ubuntu Font are really nice, beautiful,

I'm glad you like the Ubuntu Font Family, and find it practical!

 set the Ubuntu Font as default for all website,

The CSS font-family: Ubuntu is already used on the Ubuntu sites, and
additionally it is served as a webfont meaning that hopefully it
displays even when the fonts are not yet available locally.

Is your suggestion that we go beyond this, and set Ubuntu as the
default browser font in Firefox, Chromium, Konqueror, ...?

If so, this is a wonderful suggestion (I already use it as the default
in Firefox on my own machine).  Perhaps something that can be done for
the next release of Ubuntu (11.04)?

I know it doesn't seem long, but the Ubuntu Font Family has only been
shipping for a mere four months, so it's still early days!

In the mean-time, I believe that there is a Firefox plugin that
overrides the default font for Wikipedia and other sites.

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Launcher DnD - import applications on DnD start

2011-02-10 Thread Paul Sladen
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011, [ISO-8859-1] Mart�n A. Casco wrote:
 El jue, 10-02-2011 a las 11:18 -0500, Jason Smith escribió:
  Hmm this is a good point, maybe 2 or 3 then?
 quickly and simple open a file with right click

Unless the pointer is your finger...

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Papercut or not? Bug #495403 in One Hundred Paper Cuts: “Do not raise windows or dialogs without user input”

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, frederik.nn...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Mon, Jun 21, 2010 at 19:30, Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.comwrote:
  if you released the mouse button, or the keyboard key, 0.5 seconds before
  So, we've gone as far as ignoring raise requests 0.5 seconds after the
  last release event.
 I want to be notified, not interrupted or thrown out

Something I've hit a several times this week (owing to an abundance of
particular pathetic wifi) is:

  1. Busy typing away in a shell
  2. Wifi password dialogue pops up
  3. tap-ety-tap-tapety-tap [enter]

I've now overwritten the (perfectly good) wifi password with the
end of my commandline, as well as having had a few words of input
delivered to the wrong place.

Perhaps the new window could be raised and placed in a
*non-overlapping* portion of the screen (if possible), but without the
input/window manager focus being changed.

This way the next window would be visible, but without the user's link
of communication to the previous window being severed.  A one-time
click-to-focus would allow the user to consciously change where they
are typing in their own time.

-Paul



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Re: [Ayatana] The Unity launcher window matching policy

2011-01-19 Thread Paul Sladen
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011, Conscious User wrote:
 to track all applications in the Ubuntu repositories whose windows
 are not being currently correctly matched to a .desktop file

I noticed that running 'pango-view' from the command-line adds not
one, but two icons.  Perhaps one for the list.

-Paul



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Re: [Ayatana] Application tab layout, move close button to left-hand side

2011-01-17 Thread Paul Sladen
On Mon, 17 Jan 2011, Valeryan_24 wrote:
 X close buttons on tabs put to the left for the applications
 Firefox - Thunderbird - Libre Office - Empathy - Nautilus - Gedit - 
 Shutter...

Hello Xavier,

Whether to swap the tab cose buttons is a very interesting question,
it's one of those what should X do in situation Y type policy
questions where the technical implementation is likely to be easier
than deciding what should be done in the first place.

Dynamically placing the close buttons in application tabs develops
some interesting side-effects, all of which would need specifying and
working out first  For example taking Firefox, the tabs are drawn:

 [ Icon, Name...Close ]

If you open several tabs and then close them again;  When there is
only one tab remaining then the Close button on it iis hidden from
view (it disappears completely).  If this tab close button was on the
left-hand side, there would either need to be a strange-looking gap,
or the tab title would need to be moved leftwards to fill the space.

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Printing progress indicator

2011-01-14 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 11 Jan 2011, Sohail Mirza wrote:

Hello Sohail,

 Is there an indicator-printer in the works?

Others may be able to give you a better and more reliable answer, but
my expectation would be that in the short-term similar (similar to
nm-applet for Network Manager) the existing printer funcationality
would be presented as a D-Bus status indicator under the
APP_INDICATOR_CATEGORY_HARDWARE category:

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopExperienceTeam/ApplicationIndicators

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Ship Firefox with theme matching light-themes

2011-01-14 Thread Paul Sladen
On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, [ISO-8859-1] K�vin PEIGNOT wrote:
 Le vendredi 14 janvier 2011 à 10:05 +, Paul Sladen a écrit :
  On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, [ISO-8859-1] Kvin PEIGNOT wrote:
   integrate by default a personna in firefox,
  Hello Kevin, I had to Google for what a Firefox persona is,
 Yes that's it, their themes are called personnas.

Excellent.  I've retyped the URLs in the screenshots, which are:

  Ubuntu Ambiance Gradiant by James
  http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/124266

  Ubuntu Radiance by James
  http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/121573

  Ubuntu Maverick Radiance Gradient by Goozer
  http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/persona/300916

If anyone is interested it's possible to test these just by mousing
over and hovering aobve the orange Wear this Persona button in the
middle of the above pages;  no need to install or configure anything.
Information about creating Personas is at:

  http://www.getpersonas.com/en-US/demo_create

it appears that the format is fairly simple, consisting of:

  1. 3000 x 200 pixel header image
  2. 3000 x 100 pixel footer image

Kevin: if you'd like this, please could you file a bug against
light-themes to build matching Firefox personas, and we'll let other
people here on the list debate if it's a good idea:

  https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/light-themes/+filebug

(Despite hunting, I haven't worked out how this dynamic roll-over
testing works... interesting black magic).

-Paul



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[Ayatana] Unity autohide slide angle

2011-01-14 Thread Paul Sladen
(Personal) Reflections on Unity Launcher autohide; see video at bottom
for a possible interaction improvement by tweaking the slide angle.

Currently the Unity Launcher autohides by moving westwards off the
edge of the screen ...if the user intuitively tries chasing the
Launcher by moving the pointer westwards, it will not bring it back.

The Launcher is effectively hiding in the north-west of the screen
currently---the vendor logo being the target where the user must
move the pointer to in order to fetch it back.

I've been wondering whether, if the hiding transition direction were
to be changed to be a 30-degree or 45-degree diagonal (rather than the
present horizontal), it might be more intuitive to the user---so I
implemented this as a test:

  http://www.paul.sladen.org/ubuntu/unity/launcher-autohide-north-west.mp4 (639 
kB)

It could do with some amount of tweaking, and it's subtle enough
that eight out of ten cats probably wouldn't notice the difference (if 
asked upfront), even though their sub-conscious will likely notice.

-Paul

PS. I've also now tried 21 degrees, which corresponds to the ratio of
the box of the vendor logo; this is even more subtle but seems to
still convey the hint of where the Launcher might have gone and
perhaps looks a tad slicker/smoother.




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Re: [Ayatana] Do Not Disturb---across multiple applications

2011-01-07 Thread Paul Sladen
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
 Part of the attractiveness ... is they save you from having to
 make the same change in multiple applications.

I hit an interesting use-case two nights ago.

  1. Six-way conference call on Skype
  2. Messages still coming in via Empathy and interupting

I was afraid to set myself offline in the MeMenu incase it kicked me
off the conference call in Skype (Skype is probably not quite
integrated, but the presumption is that it would be long-term).

Perhaps that setting would have been Busy, but I didn't dare try it!

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] Touch size (was: Embedded gnome-panel functional...)

2011-01-07 Thread Paul Sladen
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011, Thamawij Pirajnaraporn wrote:
 On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Thamawij Pirajnaraporn wrote:
  A panel is not a thing for touch. In fact, it's really hard to touch it
 No one interesting in this topic?

Hello Thamawij,

I tried to cover and answer all the three original emails in a single
reply.  Eg. talking about the small size of targets, I pointed at the
more gobal multi-touch gestures language.

As noted in the other email it was quite hard to grasp the other all
high-level context.  It was not my intent and to have overlooked
anything in particular. Could you highlight anything that was missed
specifically?

-Paul


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Re: [Ayatana] WM icon touch target size/position (was: Embedded gnome-panel functional)

2011-01-06 Thread Paul Sladen
On Fri, 7 Jan 2011, Thamawij Pirajnaraporn wrote:

Hello Thamawij,

Welcome!

It took me a couple of minutes to fully parse the mockup and try to
work out what it's showing; if I understand correctly, it is
demonstrating an idea to move the window-manager and indicator icon
placement from the top of the screen to the right-hand side:

  1. Use a second panel at the right-hand of the screen
  2. Containing larger versions of those icons in the top bar
  3. Full-screen apps would have 100% of _height_ but less width

Is that correct?

 A panel is not a thing for touch. In fact, it's really hard to
 touch it since it is very thin.

For touch, the focus is really around multi-touch.  If you're a touch
user used to single fingers then many of the actions you've
highlighted above as being hard because of their size will be
available via higher-level multi-finger gestures.  Initial parts of
this gesture language are described in

  http://design.canonical.com/ - Unity Gesture UI Guidelines

or more directly, but with a less pretty URL:

  
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dfkkjjcj_1482g457bcc7#5_Initial_gestures_07691306807_35605821083299816

(This is dated September 2010, so I need to check if it's the latest).

Often, very-specific actions such as toggling the wifi or adjusting
the volume that /could/ be done via a menu are available directly as
hardware keys.  In these cases the indicators are serving more as
feedback indicators _to_ the user and less as something that needs to
be clicked or interacted with directly in a touch environment.

-Paul




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Re: [Ayatana] Some ideas for the Software Center

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Sladen
On Mon, 3 Jan 2011, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
 On 13/12/10 11:52, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
  Like apt-get, USC installs recommended items by default,
 we could recommend the Python bindings and development libraries.
 I suspect a lot of this will require some server-side smarts but
 it's a fruitful area for us to be exploring.

There is Enhances: which is the inverse equivalent of Suggests:
(declared in package B, rather than package A), but currently no
counterpart for Recommends::

  http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps

Flipping it over also means that the operators are inverted, so
'Recommends: x | y | z' becomes 'Super-Enhances: x  y  z'
(autoremovable install if Python and some other package).

-Paul



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Re: [Ayatana] Evolution indicator

2011-01-04 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
 On 21/12/10 15:08, Jeremy Nickurak wrote:
  Email notifications tell me when I need to have my email open.
 We're in complete agreement - the mail client should happily run in the
 background with no windows showing,

How would this work with Hotmail/Gmail?  These mail clients are highly
popular but there's going to need to be some cunning level of
integration to have that experience just work.

Jeremy: were you originally referring to the workflow where (eg. after
your morning login) *no applications have yet been started*, but you'd
still like to see a notification that there are 10 messages and 147
spams that have arrived overnight?  ---Prompting you to then start
the mail client itself?

-Paul


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