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Time Out says
Korean food of the highest quality in the heart of Fitzrovia, with polished and efficient service.
Koba remains one of the strongest players on the West End Korean scene since opening in 2005 – we've yet to have a disappointing meal here.
Barbecue meats such as beef kalbi or bulgogi are well marinated, and grilled at the table by efficient staff. Barbecued squid was fresh as a daisy, with just the right amount of tongue-tingling heat in the vibrant red sauce. Stews make a sound choice too, with umami-rich stocks and accompanying bowls of pearly rice. The spicy, slow-simmered short rib hotpot comes with chinese cabbage and sweet potato noodles as well as chunky pieces of beef, while the soft tofu stew is packed with seafood slivers.
As this is Fitzrovia rather than K-town (New Malden), there's no free panch'an, and the namul is a little pricy at £5.90. This is our only quibble, however.
Service is polished but not too formal, and the dark, modern-East-Asian-meets-industrial interior is slick, making Koba an ideal spot for anything from a business lunch (set meals start at £6.50) to a casual dinner. Drinks include Korean beers, soju and a short wine list.
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Average User Rating
3.5 / 5
Rating Breakdown
- 5 star:19
- 4 star:10
- 3 star:4
- 2 star:8
- 1 star:8
Really excellent Korean BBQ, all cooked on hot plates built into the dining tables. Perfect place for a date! We tried the mixed platter which combined slices of rib-eye, pork belly, spicy chicken, prawns + other trimmings - dip the bbq meats in the sweet miso, wrap it all in a lettuce leaf, then dip again in the sesame oil with sea salt. Great kimchee too which comes as a medley of kimchee, pickled cucumber and picked radish. Also try the beansprouts and spinach dressed in sesame oil. The staff will come back to the table every few minutes to turn the meat on the grill so you don't have to monitor it too closely and extractor fans come down from the ceiling to the table so you won't leave smelling of your dinner!
it has been a pleasant visit to Koba. The ambiance was good and we were not too distracted of how crowed it was.
The service was efficient and friendly. The food was full of flavor ,especially the spicy pork belly and marinated beef was amazing.
They managed to remember the note I left with booking and brought a dessert we ordered with a candle for my partner's birthday.
Will be back in next month when I am again in London.
I hardly ever post but felt the need to warn people DO NOT GO HERE. The service was appalling, it's massively overpriced and I am now ill as a result of my meal there. First off the waitress burnt all our vegetables and completely neglected us so we were left dealing with the overpriced burnt remains. Secondly I'd asked about gluten free options and was told by the manager emphatically the entire menu was gluten free. You can guess what happened. At the end of the meal the waitress almost as an aside tells me that three of the dishes I'd eaten had gluten in them. The manager hid downstairs and they were appalling in their response. I am now ill, my health is compromised and all because of this horrific restaurant's service and overpriced, burnt, mediocre food. Avoid like the plague. Awful.
We had a wonderful time there. We went to celebrate a friend's birthday and ordered everything we felt like and ended with a not overly expensive bill. The bao is wonderful however the kimchi pancake was a little dry. Most of the meats were delicious with amazing flavor except for the pork belly. We also ordered some noodles and a bibimbap which were equally amazing. If you're looking for a fun relaxed night with good food this is definitely a good place.
Koba was pretty decent for a work get together, but I think it was a little overpriced. The quality was pretty good I have to say. I wish Korean restaurants would provide banchan "side dishes" like normal Korean restaurants would!
Great x
Wow, love the new look! Plus the exceptionally good Korean food remains the same - the BBQ meats are particularly good.
A table barbecue was one of the experience I would remember and back for more.
Appetizers were delicious especially seafood pancake.
I would highly recommend to my friends and return soon.
One of the restaurant I would go back to have a good night out again. We reserved a table to have dinner with my partner after work on Wednesday night. When we got there it was already busy we had to wait about 10mins for the table but we were not bothered.
As soon as we sat down we ordered Korean spirit made with raspberry, and ended up having two bottles by the time we left. The BBQ was the must. It was cooked on the grill on the table which was the highlight of the night. All of the food was tasty and had a good texture with it.
We will be back soon for more with friends who have not tried this place yet. I am sure they will enjoy as much as I did.
We went here on my daughters bday and it was disappointing. My BBQ beef was burnt It took a long time for the food to arrive and they're all tasteless and very bland. Will not be back in this restaurant again.
After having read good reviews, my boyfriend and I had a meal here for our 4th anniversary, and Koba certainly didn't disappoint us. The service was brilliant. All the staff were attentive without without being intrusive. One of the staff recommended deep fried chicken for a starter, and it was indeed delicious! For main, we shared the assorted BBQ with lettuce leaves and spring onions on the side. I am not a massive fan of pork, but the sweet and spicy pork belly was actually very tasty. Overall, wonderful service, and excellent food.I have to say it is not a place for everyday dining as it is quite pricey, but as people say, you get what you pay for! I'll definitely be back again.
One of the worst Korean Restaurants I've been to. Expensive (for what I got) and not authentic at all.
Felt hurried and didnt enjoy at all. Poor service! Food was tasteless. and bland.
Came here for my partners birthday and what a disappointment after the good review i've seen on many sites.
You can tell with the lack of keorean customers that this place is not an authentic Korean restaurant. Lots of chinese and china customers!
Best thing I ate was the Bibimbap and pancackes! although they didnt have the raw beef and raw egg bibimbap which is my favourite when visiting other restaurants.
Stay clear of this place if you wan't proper Korean food! ><
Perfect place to indulge your palate with true Korean taste.
I expecially loved pancake. Its texture of crispness and softness. Most interesting part of the dinner was definately table bbq without doubt. The meat was sweet and tender. Stone pot bibimbab made my rice crispy at the bottom with spicy sauce.
One of the restaurant I would highly recommend ! Every penny was worth it.
Extremely poor service! Waitress constantly come and touch your food, even if you ask them not to cook it for you or touch it, they still do without your permission. Waitresses were trying to rush everything, we ordered a BBQ set, which we wanted to eat slowly, but the waitress help us cook all the raw meat all at once, as if we only have 10 minutes to finish our food. It was a very unpleasant, and with the high prices for food and service charge. It is definitely not worth it. Definitely will not recommend for any customers!!
I went to Koba for Lunch. We did not book for the table but luckily we could get a table. It was full by the time we placed our order. Me and my friend ordered one seafood pancake and two lunch BBQ sets, one beef and one chicken. The meet was freshly cooked in front of us and it was delicious! Our bill was 35 pounds which was not cheap but worth it. Soon we'll be back there for another lunch BBQ.
Superb! Fantastic everything: kimchi, bulgogi. Especially liked the spicy squid and pork belly bbq dish, Highly recommended, though not on the cheap side.
I think koba is one of the tastiest korean bbqs in central london really tastes like proper korean food really worth the wait and money :)) would recommend it to a friend!
Midly tasty but pricy for not much food. Dissapointed!
We decided to try this restaurant during our weekend in London and we were quite disappointed ! Small portions, high prices, low quality. We ordered fried dumplings which were barely fried, but quite tasty fortunately. The pajeon was the only good food we had. We had the beef barbecue too, but we couldn't eat half of the meat because of the fat. I was quite shocked to see that we had to pay extra for side dishes. I went to Korea last summer (and I often go to korean restaurants in Paris) and I NEVER paid for side dishes. Same for the rice, it's always included when you choose to eat barbecue. + The bottle of water was like, 4 pounds ! Definitely not recommending this restaurant.
It is a great restaurant with amazing food and top notch service. The food is authentic and there is a wide range of Korean food and drinks on the menu as well as other delicious Asian foods. The staff are knowledgeable and are always there to help and serve foreigners and UK residents alike. Definitely worth visiting! :)
I went to koba for the first time and i was pleasantly surprised. the food was great, as was the atmospehere and the service. the manager was very attentive and did a great job explaining the food and menu since it was my first time having korean food. it was pretty busy and noisy at one point,but i would definitely recommend anyone to come and try! booking might be necessary
I had dinner with my family and it was great Korean food experience for us, We had two assorted plates which were Koba Special and assorted beef, and some hot stone rice dishes. It was very tasty and all member of staffs were very kind. We'll be coming back definitely!!!!
Extremely dissapointing. We were aspecting something Korean, tasteful, hot, special and we finish chewing something tasteless, poor, scarce and definitely overpriced. Far below the spectations... this restaurant is rated with 5 stars????? Guys please tell me what are your standards!!! this place don't deserve them. Sorry to be honest but it sucks
Don't bother unless you can get a table upstairs. Down stairs in the cold basement there is no atmosphere, a couple of TVs and some horrible Korean music playing. Despite booking ahead, non-regulars were shifted out of the way.
both bbq dishes we ordered the beef was quite fatty :/ place was nice but 5 star rating i thought was a bit much
First time eating Korean food - glad I started here!!! Excellent service, delicious food, and well priced. (we went at lunch) What I would say is that DO NOT order starters if you're going to order a barbeque meal (DO do this - they are beyond delicious.) For 9 quid, getting a good portion of fried rice, dumplings, pickles, soup, salad and then a big plate of beef that gets cooked at the table seems incredibly worth the money. If you are going to get a starter - the spring onion and seafood pancake is delicious - its very unlike anything I've had before, as is the vegeatble noodles, which are good for those who want something plain. No MSG, and just AMAZNG food. Definately going to be a regular place for me.
After reading reviews on here about bad service, low quality of food and high prices. I was a bit unsure of what I would make of this Korean restaurant. However I was pleasantly surprised, portions are rather small for the price you pay, but the food was delicious, staff were very attentive and friendly and I didn't mind paying the 12.5% service charge. Price was about £25 per person.
Still a wonderful and solid stand-by. Starters amazing, mixed BBQ for four + lots of beers made for a great night at around £30 per head. Good value. Great fun. Part of our regular London restaurant rota.
Visited in April 2012, two people. Service was very friendly and the place looks lovely. Portions were quite small though, especially kimchi, I would have liked more. Dishes were presented nicely although took a little while to come out. I had the bulgogi and it was delicious. Prices weren't bad, seeing as we are on a student budget too we paid £12 each including tea.
It used to be good before prices went up and quality plummeted. It's ridiculous to charge so much for 5 lettuce leaves!
Very small portions. Very high prices. Very low quality of food. Beef chewy, could not even eat. No spice, no flavor, nothing. Would not come again ever again. Total ripoff.
We went to Koba today as we wanted to eat really great meal. We go to korean restaurant at least once a week. I have never had something so poor. Meet was chewy , and portions were really small and not tasty at all. From this tiny portion I had to leave half as it was a chewy part. I never was so unhappy in a restaurant. Wine was low quality and one of the letuce salad was not even fresh but defrosted. If I could recognise that , than everyone could. Im not a fussy eater but this was just so bad. The biggest surprice was, when I asked my beef to be spicy they said that thay dont do that. Korean and they dont make spicy food ?!?!?!?!?!?! very very dissapointing and quite expensive.
The food is very good quality, especially the kimchi, the veggies and the spring onions were excellent service is helpful and attentive (especially if you've never done korean bbq before). The interior design is nice. Portions are small: 6 small slices of duck, 5 strips of beef .. each for 9 £ is very steep. then the lettuce to roll your bbq up another 5 £, the sauces couldn't be smaller... good that we were not starving ! at the end, 75 £ for the meal including shoju (no beers or wine) is not too bad, but if you are really hungry, you wil leave disappointed.
I haven't had dinner here for over a year so can't comment on quality or prices on that side, but even though all items on the special lunch menu have been increased in price by around £1 per dish (approx. £7-8 each rather than £6-7 each), I still find them to be delicious and good value. My favourite is the Yookwhei Dolsot Bibimbap which comes with side dishes (usually sesame braised greens, beansprouts and kimchi) and Miso soup. Warming and filling. These days you usually need to book for lunch as it's become a lot busier, but you can also order for collection. Service is always polite, but sometimes slow.
Been to Koba last Sunday. I felt almost insulted when I was there. The food is okay. There are some dishes that are very tasty but mostly they are mediocre. The atmosphere is good and the staff were attentive. However, there are few things that need to be pointed out 1. PORTION - the portion is very very small for its price. We had to order a lot of food to feel sufficiently full. 2. YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR LETTUCE - which is fair enough. We are not in Korea so I understand that they might charge for kimchi and lettuce which are considered to be complimentary dishes by any Koreans. BUT it was the portion of those dishes that actually made me quite angry. Paid 5 pounds for tiny bit of kimchi and they gave us 5 lettuce leaves, 2 carrot sticks, 2 cucumbers and tiny portion of spring onion salad. It's extortionate that they charge 5 pounds for such a small quantity. Anyway, Koba needs to do serious re-evaluation of their business. Non-koreans may think its okay but all koreans I have spoken to were very unhappy about this.
Food was pretty good, but pretty pricey - definitely should not be the '£' rating. Was rather bemused at the prices for extras that normally come for free. And the drinks ain't cheap either!
I went there for dinner with friends and it was great. The food was amazing, I can particularly recommend the marinated beef with flour. The portions are quite small so I don't think this restaurant deserves the "£" rating, I spent £30 for dinner with some beer and I didn't eat too much.
My friend and I went there for lunch today, the taste was good and their set lunch meal price was reasonable. I'll definitely go there again.
I wonder who wrote this review on Time Out and did he/she actually go to Koba?! I took my boyfriend there to celebrate his 30th birthday after seeing this 5 star review rated by Time Out. It is NOT cheap at all compared to other Korean restaurants. The food is NOT that good either. When we ordered the Korean BBQ I was expecting all the usual sauces that come with the BBQ (you usually get 2 or 3 dips per person when you order BBQ). But no, there was only ONE little plate of dip for both of us and a VERY small portion of spring onions to go with the BBQ. The side dishes such as Kimchi and cucumber were not on the house unlike other Korean restaurants where they would come complimentary when you order BBQ. The quality of the food wasn't that great either. Not much taste to the glass noodle and again a portion for 1 person. Quality of the beef for BBQ was rather chewy. There are MUCH MUCH better Korean restaurants in London that are cheaper and better! I've never been to a korean place like this in my life. In conclusion, most of the dishes come at smaller portions compared to other korean restaurants but more expensive. Well, I think it's popular coz it's packed with tourists who probably don't know much about korean food.
KOBA is a CHEATING Korea store. I sincerely suggest everyone to STRONGLY AGAINST this cheating store. The waitress PREJUDICE Asian people who are not able to speak fluent English. Because the waitress always cheat and guide customers to choose more expensive dishes, this cheating behavior is like "SumSung". For example, she deliberates to guide me to choose chargeable water, but I want free water only. I sincerely suggest everyone to STRONGLY AGAINST this CHEATING store.


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KDE/GNOME To Cooperate On Interface Guidelines
As recently announced, an effort has been started for closer cooperation between the KDE and GNOME usability teams. The effort was announced in a message sent to the
Original announcement by Aaron J. Seigo:
Seth Nickell (GNOME Usability Project), Havoc Pennington (Free Desktop, GNOME), and JP Schnapper-Casteras (Free Desktop Accessibility Working Group) and myself have been discussing the possibility of co-locating the KDE and GNOME Human Interface Guides (HIGs).
The plan as discussed thus far is to have the two documents co-inhabit one XML
The easier we can make it for developers to discover and follow such
Having a shared document will also allow us to start looking at commonalities
It will take some work to merge the documents, create a web site, and raise
Best wishes to everyone!
Re: Is this a good idea at all?
Do you realize how unituitive this is? How many beginners would ever think of this concept on their own? I'd wager it's pretty close to zero.
Konqy is set by default to hover links in pseudo-selection fashion. It should do the same w/icons.
By antiphon at Mon, 2003/02/10 - 6:00am
Re: Is this a good idea at all?
Uh... about as many as would think on their own that double-click launches things?
Please read the message in context. I simply mentioned ANOTHER way the users can select icons. The important part, of course was "why would a user want to select ONE icon?", which apparently noone has an answer for.
I don't understand what "hover links in pseudo-selection fashion" means at all, so I will abstain from commenting on it.
By Roberto Alsina at Mon, 2003/02/10 - 6:00am
Where have I heard this before?
Have we not heard this before ?.....past attempts at co-operation haven't lead to anything significant for the end-user what'll make this one any different ?
By Anonymous at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: Where have I heard this before?
have led to anything significant? you mean like the .desktop standard? or XDND? or the systray standard? or icon themes? or NETWM? or X clipboard standardization? or......
that said, what will make open-hci a success (rather than simply different) are the concerted efforts of those involved, awareness of reality and a general level of competence coupled with realistic expectations.
don't expect GNOME and KDE to share a single 100% identical HIG. that's unrealistic and not the goal. our ambitions for colocation, documentation and collberation are, IMO, realistic and achievable.
please don't sell open-hci short before we even get a chance to start. thank you.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: Where have I heard this before?
Speacking of the .desktop standard. Is there anyway to have relitive paths for the Icon part. I keep images of the covers of my cds in the same dir as the oggs. When I move the album it gets messed up as to where the image is. It would be much easier if I could do something like Icon=cover.png instead of Icon=/path/to/album/cover.png
By theorz at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
File Chooser Dialog
The File Chooser Dialog is my favorite part of KDE, silly as
By TomL at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
Yup .. another thing KDE stole from Windows .. albeit they have made it better
By Ho hum at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
Actually, when I wrote the first version I based it more on the Motif dialog. I fixed the obvious flaws, then made the various views optional. It is true though, that the default configuration these days is very similar to the windows dialog.
By Richard Moore at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
Actually we had a submission here a while ago about all the things Microsoft's newer interfaces are stealing from KDE/GNOME... it's more two-way than you think.
By Navindra Umanee at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
I'm with you in this point. One can't even found a HOME button on certain Gnome apps.
By honor at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
KDE usability is a joke
As I seem to recall (I'm using RH7.3 KDE, but I'm almost sure this hasn't been changed) the KDE file dialogs use folder icons yet for actions that manipulate folders they use the word "directory". You want to create a new folder, but there is no "new folder" button, there is only a "new directory" button. I want to create a folder, but dammit, all I can find is a button to create a new phone book. And if I want to create a new phone book in a file dialog and hit the "new directory" button, no dice. All I get is a new folder.
Keep terminology and metaphor consistant. Avoid jargon. It's stuff any HCI student is taught within the first several weeks of class. It's something apple has done since 1984, using the word "Folder" in their earliest file dialogs on a machine with a 9" black and white screen and several thousand times less processor cycles and ram than we have today. Yet to this day KDE is still blowing it on this simple thing that is so easy to change. Sure, most geeky people have no problem using the word "Directory", but then you have to ask yourself what a design for geeks is doing in a desktop environment targeted at end-users.
I even approached the KDE usability group about this lack of consistancy and adherence to the most basic of UI design principles. They considered this not very important and blew me off. If the people entrusted with making KDE usable can't even grasp basic usability principles, then the KDE usability project is more or less worthless.
I'm no fan of what GNOME has done, and they've made some really big missteps with their usability program. But at least they have the common sense to match the folder metaphor with the folder terminology by calling things represented by folder icons "folder". If KDE won't get their act together by fixing stupid, simple stuff like this, GNOME is probably better off not adopting any KDE designs.
By Ilan Volow at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: KDE usability is a joke
you were not "blown off". you asked for a fork to take place, while less radical and more effective methods were suggested. you talked about folders vs directories, and you were pointed in the direction of the definitions that are used for each which. this was not "blowing off" but discussion.
btw, the challenge we face w/directories and folders is the conflict between commonly accepted icons (usually of a folder) and the underlying system (which refers to "folders" in the filesystem as directories). this has been discussed quite a bit by the documentation team it seems...
that said, there are much bigger issues in KDE that need addressing that will result in bigger strides forward than quibbling over when to use folder vs directory, UI vs system consistency, etc... we (or least I) have limited time to deal with all of these things. so i have to prioritize where to spend the few hours a week i have on these things (right now i'm posting between writing code at work). if i had all week to spend on usability coding i might just take the time to grep the code for every use of the word Directory and replace it with the word Folders, including the documentation. this is not a trivial task, and would result in only marginal improvement.
in other words, i need to try and obsess about the right things.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: KDE usability is a joke
I did not ask for a fork to take place. I asked for a bug to be fixed. And here I was thinking that open source was about quick bug fixes. I mean, I keep hearing about linux kernel security holes getting patched in hours, but for some reason I keep seeing really simple-to-fix usability problems on both major linux desktops taking years to get corrected, if ever.
The challenge you (and by "you" I don't personally mean you; I mean the entire group of people developing linux desktop stuff, KDE, GNOME, etc) are facing is that you are still carrying around 30 years of command-line unix geek baggage that you refuse to get rid of, and this is polluting efforts to produce decent user interfaces for people who think graphically and don't want to twiddle about with their computers for 16 hours a day.
Follow the link below. Pay extremely careful attention to #2. I suggest the KDE documentation department put down their Neil Stevenson essays for just a moment and read it.
If the issue about the terminology correction is mainly time, I have no problem downloading the entire KDE source tree from cvs and doing the purging of "Directory" and the replaceing with "Folder" for you. I've been doing a lot of grepping and replacing as of lately. Yes, I am being serious about this.
By Ilan Volow at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: KDE usability is a joke
> are facing is that you are still carrying around 30 years of command-line unix geek
KDE has little say in the matter of what resides beneath the UI. this is not an excuse, it is a reality. that said, UNIX geek "baggage" isn't all bad although some of it is. people just tend to notice the bad before the good, and there are no blanket statements. ;-)
> http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html
yes, this is a good list...
> If the issue about the terminology correction is mainly time, I have no problem
cool.. of course, be sure not to change it where it should be "Directory" (yes, i like to state the obvious ;) ... perhaps if you started w/kdelibs and kdebase so we can see what it looks like and how well it works and elicit comment and testing before moving on to the rest of the code base?
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: KDE usability is a joke
well, here is my suggestion:
By kannon at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: KDE usability is a joke
We do that already, since 3.0
By Sad Eagle at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: KDE usability is a joke
> this has been discussed quite a bit by the documentation team it seems...
Yes. And the consensus was about as described in the postings you quoted. Problem was: Nothing ever came of it. The proof reading team somehow couldn't bring itself to take the thing to core-devel and then finally start to make the use of the terms consistent in the existing files.
By Thomas Diehl at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
I think its awfull.. but much more functional than gnomes at the moment.
I dont understand some of the design decisions. Sometimes reading through the mailing lists it looks like the user in mind is the "secretary" in the office or grandma or whatever kind of "newbie" then things like the File Chooser show up. This dialog is Ok for me and people at these forums but d'ont forget that we are power users.
By J And at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
firstly... have you had a chance to look at the file dialog in 3.1? eugenia from osopinion.com did quite a bit of nitpicking on the dialog in 3.0 and much of her work translated into changes being made for 3.1. it's still probably far from perfect, but hopefully closer.
secondly... can you offer specific examples of what real problems real users run into? not knowing how to bring up a context menu is irrelevant in the file dialog if it isn't something they need to do to use it, for example. real use cases are *very* valuable, however, and can result in corresponding action.
note the use of the word "real". guessing, hand waving and assuming are things i can do all by myself quite well ;-) actually knowing what real users do is not as easy. i observe real life usage fairly often and that helps me notice problems; if others can do the same (even if it is self-observation) and provide feedback based on that it is always welcome as a treasured resource. =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
My sugestion would be to keep the interfaces as simple as possible. An example could be kmail.. there are 14 icons and 9 menu entries in the default configuration - too many for "grandma" to handle. I think icons for "check mail" , "new message" and "reply" would do it - a power user could easily add the remaining icons/options later.
BTW..Knode is not version 1 yet.. but why is the font dialog in properties not equal the one in Kmail? I feel it is equally important to be consistent.. maybe programs that do not stricly follow KDE standards should not be distributed with the official KDE. Maybe there should be a usability team that could - developers should be forbidden there - veto a release or inclusion of a program if it didnt follow standards. Yeah.. i need to be spanked for writting that ;-)
By J And at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
> The file dialog is just one example of a complex action/dialog that can confuse
i understand that as i get to regularly interface with sales people and management as part of my day-to-day work. it's the specifics that are needed: WHAT is an obstacle and HOW can it be made easier. not in the abstract, but in the specific.
> An example could be kmail.. there are 14 icons and 9 menu entries in the default
we also want it to be fun for the user somewhere between you and grandman, too, but you are right that kmail's auxilary interface (everything outside the central widget area) is overly and unecessarily complex. it isn't the only app like that, though. we have a LOT of usability work to do ...
> Maybe there should be a usability team that could - developers should be forbidden
applications have been disallowed from KDE due to non-standards compliance. removing an app that has a large following is not an easy thing, though. better is to fix it. that is one of the aims of kde-usability. of course that requires developers; so banning them is probably counterproductive. =)
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Most user are not total newbies
Remember that now, in the present, most users aren't complete newbies.
By andrea at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Most user are not total newbies
When faced with KDE for the first time, no matter how much people say it's a Windows clone, it is intimidating because everything is new. However experienced you are at this point it is much easier to learn an application where by default it is simple and usable and by configuration can be made more powerful.
The usability team sure do accept that many people have a background in computers, but this doesn't mean much. I know plenty about cars, but I would rather sit in a new vehicle faced by a simple set of controls than something that allows me to adjust the oil pressure, tyre pressure, spoiler height etc. Maybe this is an excessive example but the point is sound. Simplicity and usability are important to everyone.
If kmail only had three toolbar buttons I'd be pleased. I only use check, new and reply, and it would be simple enough for even "grandma" to understand and use.
It's not about sacrificing power anyway, it's about creating defaults that are a happy settlement between usability and usefulness. I tend towards usability since power users are usually happy to muck about in settings dialogs.
By mxcl at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
What we need is user levels
The personalization wizard should offer the user to tell what type of experience he/she has with computers. A beginner would be given a simplified box.
Intermediate to advanced should get the one that we have now.
By antiphon at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: What we need is user levels
This is the best suggestion so far.
Even as a power user, I still only use a small subset of ALL of the features in any given application, so even I would want a grandma simple interface where I can add the few icons that I would need to extend the interface.
Konqueror has far too many buttons that can be clicked on. Look at the Safari interface .. damn it looks good, clean and usable :)
Please consider this suggestion.
By Agreed at Fri, 2003/02/07 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
All I know is that I can do what I need to do faster
My goodness, the Open Office file dialog makes me ill.
By TomL at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
it's not silly at all. the file dialog is likely the most visible link between an application and the file system. users probably see it more often than any other single interactive dialog on the desktop. it's very important.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: File Chooser Dialog
I too also like it and its far better than Gnomes current one..
By J And at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Button Labels
I hope that the guidelines and the code will say the same
For example, the Apple UI guidelines make it very clear that
When last I checked the Gnome guidelines, it was hard to get
This isn't academic; in the version of Evolution I use,
By Nathan Myers at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: Button Labels
By Aaron J. Seigo at Tue, 2003/02/04 - 6:00am
Re: Button Labels
Apropos simpe dialogs example. In windows 9x when a user reinstalled their network then a user was presented with a dialog something like this " Windows has discovered that there is a newer file installed than the one youre trying to install. Should Windows keep the current file -- YES _ NO". Most people - including me - didnt read this long boring text so we just cliked yes when the proper answer should be no in order to get a working system. Specially problematic when the user clicked NO to the next file etc. So a better dialog could be "Overwrite file"..."Keep file"... and of course a shorter text .
By J And at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Button Labels
Wonder of wonders, KDE got it right (at least in the guidelines).
In any case, judging by this sample, the Gnome guidelines document
By Nathan Myers at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Button Labels
Cut the FUD please:
From the GNOME HIG:
# Label all buttons with imperative verbs, using header capitalization. For example, Save, Sort or Update Now. Provide an access key in the label that allows the user to directly activate the button from the keyboard.
Sorry, but the KDE style guide is nowhere near as complete or useful as the GNOME one. I'm hoping this effort will help unify them so we all benefit, especially KDE. Last time I checked, the style guide (guides?) weren't even linked to from usability.kde.org, or if they are I couldn't find them, only a list of "issues" with it.
By Mike Hearn at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Button Labels
It's a fact that I got responses from Gnome developers claiming
Nothing improves without problems being identified. Identifying
By Nathan Myers at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Button Labels
It's a fact that "gnome developers" is far too vague a group to be useful. Do you class the developers of GnomeMeeting as gnome developers? GStreamer? Gimp?
It's also a fact that both Evo and Gnumeric stable were released before the HIG was finalized. In fact, the next versions of both of these (i have tried gnumeric and seen screenies of evo) are being brought into compliance with the HIG at the same time as being ported to GNOME2. This isn't "ignoring" the HIG - the changes the HIG gives aren't simply a matter of flipping a few bits, stuff like instant apply, borderless frames, and usable icons need to be designed into the app.
In general, if you decide to criticize a document, go ahead, but please make sure you've actually read the latest version before pointing out flaws in it. What I've read is version 1, so if you read a previous version by definition it wasn't considered finished.
By Mike Hearn at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Button Labels
Funny, the guy who spent all his free time bashing Konqueror/KHTML/Safari speaks of FUD.
By ac at Thu, 2003/02/06 - 6:00am
Re: Button Labels
Jeez. I didn't bash Konqueror, nor KHTML, nor Safari. I was bashing peoples attitude towards the whole affair. It was purely personal opinion, with some economic arguments thrown in to justify that opinion. It could hardly be called FUD. This was pointing out some inaccuracies in the post.
By Mike Hearn at Thu, 2003/02/06 - 6:00am
Gnome zealot
You produced a tremendous amount of FUD to bash Apple, khtml and kde to further your own agenda: Apple should have chosen gecko over khtml. Yes, I especially liked the way you said here that Apple shouldn't have chosen khtml because they write proprietary software, not to be trusted etc, but over at osnews you said they should have chosen gecko because khtml sucked. What a two faced hypocrite; but then this is the expected behaviour of rabid gnome zealots.
By ac at Thu, 2003/02/06 - 6:00am
Not to mention the FUD you have been spreading on slashdot.org about startup notification, when GNOME 2.2 simply implemented a spec largely created by a major KDE developer.
By ac at Thu, 2003/02/06 - 6:00am
Re: FUD
This behavior is really sad and inappropriate. It is quite frankly humiliating for the human race to hear such juvenile pettiness, "Startup Notification FUD", "Your not human like me, your a Witc^H^H^H^HTroll! Burn!". Unbelievable. I thank god that mindless biggots like yourself arent the ones who any power of any sort. I cannot think of words to describe how disappointed I am with people like yourself right now.
By Ryan at Thu, 2003/02/06 - 6:00am
Re: FUD
I agree. Here is the full link to his pettiness, forever archived for all to see: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=52921&cid=5234195
He is refuted by RedHat/GNOME hacker hp in same thread.
By ac at Thu, 2003/02/06 - 6:00am
Re: FUD
Leave Mike alone, he's a very decent guy. You on the other hand seem like a complete fool.
I have the utmost respect for Mike, he knows what he's talking about. I haven't read these threads you speal of but I've no doubt you're blowing them out of proportion.
Also you have nothing to say in all the posts in which you bash him in this thread, why don't you just say nothing at all? What a waste of space you've created.
By mxcl at Mon, 2003/02/10 - 6:00am
Experience from a KDE newbie
Hi, I have been using KDE for a couple weeks now from the introduction of my nerdular boyfriend so I think I can offer a fresh perspective. I normally use windows, so I chose the windows settings from the "Desktop Settings Wizard."
First impression: KDE looks pretty. I especially like the long round circular things at the top of every program that says what it is.
Second impression: Icons and menus are confusing to me.
Very few of the icons make sense to me. I clicked on the little pencil/paper icon that looks like its on a book, and it minimizes everything and shows the background. Doh!, that's the "show desktop" operation, says a little tooltip later. (Great, now I can move the mouse over the other ones to see what they are.)
The icon for a "shell" doesn't convey to much to me. Actually, I thought the shell might be some french fries at first. :) The weirdly tilted E for email seems odd to me. The web browser button looked like some kinda gear on a planet to me also -- was later told that maybe its some ship steering-wheel thingy to mean "navigation." Maybe I'm just strange and my brain is trained for windows, but I'd think these could be better.
The help button as a life-preserver is OK though. But the actual help is a bit..overwhelming. And the start menu or whatever you guys call it.. oh my god! There is so much stuff in there, and everything is named Kthis and Kthat, Kblahblahblah. The only thing I like is that whatever I ran last it gets put up at the top, so I can start it right away when logging in next time.
Also, cut/copy/paste does not always work between all KDE programs. Sometimes only CTRL+C will work and other times CTRL+INS will work and not the other. Argh! (I checked that they were set in Control Center too.) My windows key also does not do anything, or any of my internet buttons and this keyboard is like 3-4 years old.
I see some people arguing about button order and dialog stuff. Whats the big deal? I'm not a programmer, but can't you just make that a setting in the Desktop Wizard Settings program?
One thing that bugs me with dialogs is that when they give you the choice between, say, "Yes," "No," "Cancel," you cannot just press one of the keys they underline as you can in windows. In windows I could just press Y or N or C to do any of the above. I also think when the application asks me "Do you want to save it?" The answer that comes to me is Yes or No. I don't think Discard. Discard what? Discard this dialog? Discard my typing? Huh? The same thing goes for Cancel, which is in windows too but it never made sense to me either.
Re: Experience from a KDE newbie
I forgot to mention. When trying to adjust the size of a window, it seems hard as hell to get your mouse cursor in just the right spot so that you can drag it. That one really bugs me.
Re: Experience from a KDE newbie
Try pressing ALT and right mouse button while moving the mouse. It's pretty convinient to resize windows that way.
By j at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Experience from a KDE newbie
first, welcome to kde =)
i agree with some of your icon observations; some are not as obvious as they should be. as for the web browser icon, does a lower case "e" with a swoosh on it convey "web browser" any better? probably not, but you learned what that icon meant.
the kmenu (start menu) is very big because KDE comes with so much software. not all of the application names are very helpful, to be certain. the 'k' prefix is there to make sure that the names are unique on your system. there are a few people working on various solutions to these challenges.
as for the cut/copy/paste issues, which version of KDE are you using? these issues were supposed to have been worked out with the KDE3 series; outstanding problems should be considered bugs. which apps weren't working properly with cut 'n paste?
regarding making things like button ordering configurable, yes we can do that. the question is should we. things get too configurable quickly, which has implications for general usability, learnability and tech support. this isn't to say "no, we should not make widget option X configurable", but that there are a lot of issues to weigh.
to use the keyboard to "press" buttons in dialogs, use Alt and the letter than is underlined in the button. e.g. Alt-o will select "Ok" and Alt-c will select cancel.
it's interesting that you said "Discard what? .. Discard my typing?" because that's exactly what it means. you wondered if it means to discard the dialog as well, but just as you applied "yes" and "no" to the question in the dialog the button names apply to the question as well. usability studies have shown this to be generally more effective than generic "yes" and "no".
thanks for the observations ... you raised some interesting and valid points. i'd be interested in more such information from newer users such as yourself as they provide useful data points.
"nerdular". heh.
By Aaron J. Seigo at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Experience from a KDE newbie
I'm with her about the yes-no question. I started to use every day OpenOffice, and I found their way to ask what to do with my document so confusing that I have to experiment with a "trash document".
By andrea at Wed, 2003/02/05 - 6:00am
Re: Experience from a KDE newbie
Hey, thanks for the welcome.
About the e-swoosh thing.. I don't find that one intuitive either. With the tool tips I didn't find it a big deal, just thought I'd point it out.
I'm using KDE 3.1 and often when I try to copy something in Konqueror and paste it somewhere else, it does not work. Sometimes none of the keyboard shortcuts work and I have to highlight what I want to copy and then go to the pull-down menu and select "copy" with the mouse (and the "copy" selection will even say "CTRL+C" next to it and not work). Sorry I don't remember exactly what I was doing when it happened.
About the button ordering thing.. the way things are now, I always have to read what they say because of a lack in consistency in the questions they ask or in what the default pre-selected button is.
For pressing dialogs when they are right out at you, it seems kind of weird to have to press ALT to me. It asks you a question, and there are only a limited number of things you can do -- why bother needing to press ALT?
As for the usability studies, I am suspicious of that. Whatever the case, in the context I mentioned it I still think it's confusing.
Also with the "nerdular" thing, I was just being silly; no offense intended.
Another thing I also forgot ot mention.. It took me awhile to get the fonts to look just right. I had to go look at what the settings were on a windows computer and copy them over into konqueror and then fiddle with the sizes. I think people who use their computer more casually would have probably have given up right there.
Re: Experience from a KDE newbie
About the copy and paste thing - yeah that one got me too. You see that little clipboard icon in the bottom corner ? That's KClipboard, the clipboard manager. It's purpose is so you can have numerous things "copied" at once. Click on it, and you'll probally see the last 5 or so things you copied. However, if that is not to your liking, you can always disable it, and KDE will copy and paste just as any other OS would (i.e. Windows).
As far as button order or fonts, well what exactly is "just right" ? I think people all too often confuse being 'right' with the Microsoft stardard pratice or way of doing something :)
Anyways, Happy computing, and welcome to Linux...
By chillin at Thu, 2003/02/06 - 6:00am
Re: Experience from a KDE newbie
Um well I guess it's hard to explain, but basically some fonts looked really crummy. Not because of the font themselves mind you, just how they looked in KDE. And things seemed to be sized wrong all the time. I have also just tried the Opera browser and it has its fonts/sizes "just right."
Right now I have them all looking quite nice, except when courrier new is italicized, some letters are deformed. I have no idea why, and of course don't have the technical expertise to figure it out.
I searched the web a bit and lots of people recommended anti-aliasing your fonts.. so I tried that.. but they looked worse! Maybe thats just my opinion though, I don't know, but I think that only fonts that are really big looked better with that option turned on. Seems that getting your fonts looking great is some kind of black art.
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Every day, they sit alone in their offices, writing about love, passion, romance.
They bring to life muscled heroes, dangerous vixens, strong heroines — lovers all — then put enormous obstacles in the way of the would-be lovers so they must struggle for that happily-ever-after.
The members of the Maryland Romance Writers meet once a month at the Arbutus Library to discuss the craft and business of writing the most popular genre of fiction in America. Their books are among the more than $1.3 billion worth of romance novels sold in a year.
They are serious-minded writers who know how to tug at the heart strings, force a tear or two, get the pulse racing.
With its 81 members spread across the state, the library is a convenient meeting place, as is Chef Paolino's restaurant on Frederick Road in Catonsville for their catching-up dinners before the meeting.
The library's central location near the Baltimore Beltway and Interstate-95 makes it suitable for picking up speakers for their meetings and workshops.
"And they're very nice to us," said Joya Fields, of Catonsville.
The MRW is one of a number of groups that rent space in the library, said librarian Kim Preis. "They seem like they genuinely have a lot of fun," she added. At the suggestion of fellow librarian Ann McElroy the group has agreed to speak about romance novels at the library in May.
The group met in Linthicum until about two years ago when space limitations forced them to look for a new location, said Lea Nolan, another member of the group who just published her first book.
With an atmosphere that can be celebratory and maybe even risque, the meetings serve to connect writers, help them get their start and offer support. And it's done with chocolate.
Rebecca York, of Columbia, has published 140 books — with titles in 22 languages. She been coming to these meetings for more than 20 years. "It's a good group of productive writers," she said.
She heaped praise on the meeting's programs that can range from ghosts to psychics and offer a little insight on the many paranormal romances she likes to write.
Like York, about half of the group's members are already published, some with several novels, some with best-selling titles.
About half are "pre-published," in the process of seeing their prose go out into the reading world for the first time, according to Laura Kaye, the group's vice president and the author of New York Times and USA Today bestsellers.
Writing is a solitary pursuit, Kaye said. "It's helpful and encouraging to know other people get what you're going through," she said.
"At my first meeting of the MRW, I was stunned at the professionalism of the women," said Stephanie Draven, of Owings Mills. "I have never encountered a savvier group of ladies."
These writers are not producing the "bodice-rippers" of past generations. At least, the majority aren't. Romance today can involve vampires, ghosts or gods. It can take on subjects as serious as the environment or even a political campaign — as one of Draven's new books has this year. They can be filled with suspense or adventure. Some are humorous while others get dark.
"Now, there is truly something for every flavor," Fields said.
Some have explicit love scenes while others are more circumspect. "There's the close-the-door theory and an open-the-door theory," Fields said.
In one way, romance novels are all the same: "In romance, a happy ending is essential to the genre," York said.
Such endings have some basic components.
"The bad guy's going to get caught and the couple is going to get together," Fields said.
The recent crop of best-sellers, such as Fifty Shades of Grey, has brought new attention to the genre.
"It certainly helped my sales," Draven said.
The attention has broadened the audience.
"It pulls in new readers," said Christi Barth, a Baltimore resident who is the group's president for 2013. "It's rejuvenated their interest in reading."
And some books have inspired new writers, including Nolan, an Arnold resident, and her friend, Laura Kaye.
Kaye and Nolan began writing after they were inspired by the "Twilight" series.
"If Stephenie Meyer (the author) can do this, I can do this," Nolan remembers thinking.
Nolan explained she didn't want to write just any romance. It would have to be young adult romance, like the "Twilight" books, a genre that has developed since her own teen years. "I missed that whole genre because it didn't exist," she said.
"We didn't exactly know what we were doing," Kaye said.
Without knowing a soul, she went to her first meeting of the Maryland Romance Writers. "It turned out to be one of the best decisions I ever made," Kaye said.
New writers can benefit from the experiences of published authors. "The person who has 100 books published is willing to work with the person who is pre-published," Fields said.
"We really value mentorship in this organization," Kaye said, noting that the group is more collegial than one might expect.
"Now I can't imagine life without some of these women," she added.
Meetings give members a chance to meet agents and publishers and learn about the whole publishing experience.
"There's a kinship you can grow with other people who are close to you. We can be in such an isolated profession," Nolan said.
Members take part in workshops online or in person to learn how to write, especially the finer points of structure, and how to get published, especially what will catch an editor's or agent's attention.
Barth credits one of her colleagues for helping her land a six-book contract.
"The networking cannot be overlooked," she said.
And unlike other writer's groups, where critiques can be scathing, there is a feeling of support. "You're there for each other," Nolan said.
Barth said the willingness of members to read each other's manuscripts is invaluable. "You can't just find people like that," she said. "You have to come to a group like this and discover them."
Nolan said she'd be a member even if she wrote mysteries or adventure stories. "Even if you don't write only romance, it's still very useful," she said. "There's so much to learn."
These writers come from different places and backgrounds. Many are wives and mothers. Some write full time. They've been teachers, historians, archaeologists, health care professionals, journalists. Many live in the Baltimore area but others attend only a few meetings because they live farther away.
Shelley Greene, a pre-published member from Columbia, brought her laptop to the November meeting so Sarah Allan, who lives in England, could attend via Skype. "She met the members of MRW through (the Romance Writers Association) and chose our chapter because she liked the group," Greene said. Both members are on the verge of seeing their first manuscripts published.
If last month's meeting is any indication, the conversation can veer from serious talk about getting an agent to laughter over heroes or plot details.
When it's time to celebrate, a gallon-sized bag of Dove chocolates is passed around the room as members announce winning a contest, signing an agent, having a book published, getting on a best-seller list, negotiating movie rights. Even taking the time to write is worth a chocolate reward.
"This is my baby," Nolan said in November, holding up a copy of her first book, Conjure, a paranormal fantasy for young adults. "It came out last month." It will be, she told her colleagues, the first in a series.
Kaye's recent appearance on national best-seller lists was cause for celebration at the November meeting as fellow members pinned on a Miss-America-style sash. "It's been an incredible two weeks," she said as the meeting began. One Night With A Hero is on both the New York Times and USA Today best seller lists. "Her Forbidden Hero" is also on the USA Today list.
"When somebody does well, it feels like we all do well," said Fields, whose newest book, Hereafter, a ghostly tale set in downtown Baltimore, was released in mid-December.
Inevitably, the meetings get serious. Speakers come every month to offer advice on editing, online promotion, high-tech writer's tools, ghost hunting and social media.
In November, web editor and blogger Mary McCarthy, stopped in to offer "Six Ways to Grow Your Readership Online."
Since most of these authors rely on their own blogs to promote their books, the discussion ranged from good blogging sites to the value of Facebook and Twitter and using Google Analytics.
In addition to providing an opportunity for networking and professional support, the MRW also co-sponsors the Baltimore Book Festival. This past September, with Kaye at the helm, they group organized the Maryland Romance Writers Stage, packing appearances by 40 authors into three days. They plan to do it again next year, Kaye said.
The Maryland Romance Writers meet at the Arbutus Library, 855 Sulphur Spring Road on the third Thursday of the month at 6:30 p.m.
For information on the meetings or the writers, go to http://www.marylandromancewriters.com.


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This is no longer a secret. If you and your colleagues/friends/relatives etc. are in need of a cash injection from the European Union, for whatever activities you would like to occupy yourself with, there is one foolproof method that is guaranteed to succeed:
You start by devising a project. It does not matter at all what the project is about; the only thing you have to remember is, THE PROJECT MUST IN SOME WAY BE CONNECTED TO CLIMATE CHANGE. It cannot be overemphasised: Without the link to climate change, your project application most likely will fail abysmally. (A tip: it is good to try to involve some likeminded people from at least a couple of other EU countries in your project. This "internationalisation" gives your project an aura of credibility, which is much appreciated by the EU bureaucracy).
The next step is to actually apply for EU money. It may be worthwile to try to try to get some assistance from one or several of the numerous green lobby groups in Brussels. They are all good buddies with the EU green bureaucrats, who make sure that the money actually is delivered. Don´t forget that he bureaucratic wheels of the European Union are not the quickest to turn. Finally your patience will be amply rewarded.
For educational purposes only, here is an example of a succesful project that has received over €2,2 million from the European Union (contributed by European taxpayers). The IMAGINE 2020 project was one of thirty projects presented for 600 people at the "Culture in Motion: Pathways to EU2020" conference in Brussels recently:
The IMAGINE 2020 – seeing climate change through art project, which backs associations in Germany, France, the UK, Netherlands, Portugal, Latvia, Slovenia and Croatia which are supporting artists who tackle the issue of climate change through art and who present environmentally sustainable performances. The project, which runs from 2010 to 2015, received a grant of €2.2 million – equivalent to 50% of its costs. Theresa von Wuthenau, project coordinator, says that the EU support helps to "explore how artists can help the shift towards a low carbon economy, by engaging a generation of artists in Europe with climate issues and by promoting creative exchanges with the world of science, philosophy and history."
Read the entire article here.
The IMAGINE 2020 project has a website, but at least today (19.2.2011) it was empty:
(It is, of course, possible that the emptiness is intentional. Could it exemplify an "environmentally sustainable performance"?)
(It is, of course, possible that the emptiness is intentional. Could it exemplify an "environmentally sustainable performance"?)
I was able to locate the following information on the IMAGINE 2020 from a pdf powerpoint presentation available on the net:
Artists and the cultural sector can and must play
an important role in the necessary cultural
shift needed if we want to maintain hope for a
sustainable, human and beautiful future.
6 partners – 4 countries
2 years (June 2008 – May 2010)
Budget: € 467 865 EU: €200 000
Kaaitheater – Brussels (BE)
Théâtre Le Quai – Angers (FR)
Domaine d'O – Montpellier (FR)
LIFT – London (GB)
Artsadmin – London (GB)
11 partenaires – 9 pays
5 ans (Juillet 2010 – Juin 2015)
Budget: € 4,427,510 EU: € 2,213,754.00
Partenaires Thin Ice +
• Rotterdamse Schouwburg (NL)
• Kampnagel, Hamburg (DE)
• Transforma, Torres Vedras (PT)
• Domino, Zagreb (HR)
• NTIL, Riga (LV)
Imagine 2020
To research the unique role European artists/arts
organisations can play as catalyst for change
To practice environmentally sustainable ways of
producing /touring while maintaining trans‐national
mobility of artists/art works
To create unexpected spaces for dialogue between arts,
science, and civil society
To contribute to the cultural memory of this crucial time
Imagine 2020
Expected Results
A strong body of innovative artistic work addressing
Climate Change
A consolidation of cultural initiatives to become an
important voice in the European Climate Change
Awareness among diverse audiences and change in their
A set of tools for artists/arts institutions to integrate
Climate Change concerns in their working practices
IMAGINE 2020 will certainly employ project coordinator Theresa von Wuthenau and a number of "artists" for a few years, but is this really how European tax payers´ money should be spent at a time when governments almost across the line are introducing an ever growing number of austerity measures? I think not.
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6 Beach Reads From 100 Years Ago
Most of the old books that you encounter today are official "classics," meaning that though they were written centuries ago, they carry some lasting beauty, some deep human truth that transpires age. And many of them are painfully dry—you only read them because you want to be able to say, "I felt Hugo expressed more pathos for the French underclasses in Les Miserables than in The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at parties. (And you will remember to pronounce "Dame" as "Dahm.")
But don't forget, people of 100 years ago didn't like to be bored any more than you do! They might have had longer attention spans, but they still liked to devote those attention spans to something fun. Mysteries, thrillers, romances, and fantasy abounded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We've just forgotten about them because not enough English professors write dissertations about crime-fighting ladies of the Edwardian Age.
So here we present some forgotten, fun reads of the past. Not only are they free on Google Books (except the naughty ones at the bottom!), they're also mostly free of the bloated language and conventions that put so many readers off old fiction.
1. The Lamplighter, 1854
Genre: Chick-Lit Romance
If you're in the mood for pure heart rending/warming sentiment, meet little Gertie Flint. She's a poor orphan, mistreated by the world, until she is rescued by a kindly lamplighter. His fatherly love changes the course of her life. The rest of Maria Susanna Cummins' bestselling novel is a chance for Gertie to show us how bright, hard-working, and good a young woman can be; and the sweet romantic rewards that await a girl of such virtue.
2. The Hannay Series, 1915
Genre: Espionage Thrillers
You've probably heard of the movie(s) The Thirty-nine Steps, as Orson Welles and Alfred Hitchcock were two of many talented people who've brought versions of it to radio and screen. What you may not have known is that it is the first book in a five book series of thrillers staring the intrepid Richard Hannay, solider and spy of The Great War. The books were written by Scottish novelist (and Baron, Elected Member of Parliament, and Governor General of Canada) John Buchan. They chronicle Hannay's life of adventure and espionage throughout WWI, as well as much mystery-solving after it.
3. The Marriage of William Ashe, 1905
Genre: Scandal and Romance
William Ashe, the dashing Earl and successful politician, is enchanted with the beauty and charm of 18-year-old Lady Kitty. He proposes after only knowing her three weeks, and is too infatuated with her to take note of all the gossip regarding her character. What could possibly go wrong? Enter a lover or two, some unladylike behavior, a desperate episode of grief, some very wrong choices, and you have yourself a spellbinding beach read by Mrs. Humphrey Ward.
4. Miss Madelyn Mack, Detective, 1914
Genre: Ladies Solving Crimes
Long before spunky modern heroines began solving mysteries with their cats and knitting societies, even before Miss Marple tottered onto the scene, there was Miss Madelyn Mack. She and her trusty companion, reporter Nora Noraker, take on five mysteries in the book, which reads surprisingly non-sexist for the day (and they were written by a man, Hugh Cosgro Weir). Miss Mack believes that a woman's observant character makes her a better mystery solver than a man. It's a bit of a Sherlock Holmes rip-off, to be sure, but then again what mystery solving duo isn't?
5. Carmilla: a Vampyre Tale, 1872
Genre: Vampires
Predating Dracula by about 25 years, Carmilla, by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, is the story of a lonely girl named Laura who lives in her father's lonely European castle. One day a carriage rolls out of the mist, and an anxious lady begs to leave her ill daughter with Laura while she tends to a far-away emergency. This girl is Carmilla, and soon she and Laura have formed an intense friendship. Carmilla has peculiar ways, and an undefinable sickness. Not surprising, since people all over town seem to be dying of some strange illness. I bet you can guess what it is. But in 1872, it would have been quite a shock.
6. You Know Me, Al, 1914
Genre: Humor
Firstly, finding any unique humor from the 19th and early 20th centuries is difficult. You can basically choose from the rambling knee slappers of Mark Twain, or the jaunty verbal gymnastics that come from Jerome K. Jerome and the future members of the Algonquin Round Table. But You Know Me, Al, written by sportswriter Ring Lardner, reads altogether different. It's a series of letters written to "Al" (in a vernacular that is nearly recognizable English) by Jack Keefe, a remarkably dumb and narcissistic baseball player who continually sabotages or lets others sabotage his journey to and from fame. Throw in some disastrous dames and a coupla no good scoundrels all filtered through Jack's amazing doltishness, and you've found yourself an easy fun time there, pal.
Bonus: 50 Shades of Goodness Gracious!
Erotica has been publicized for as long as man could transfer thought to page or stone. The erotic novel, as we know it today, (slightly more lady-friendly and plot heavy than average pornography) began in the 18th century with the publication of The Memoirs of Fanny Hill. The art form progressed, and by the end of the 19th century readers were enjoying such discreetly wrapped and erotic titles as Lady Bumtickler's Revels, The Autobiography of a Flea, and Venus in India. All books are available on Kindle for remarkably reasonable prices, and will be sure to add a little ribaldry to your summer.