On 10 Jun 2008, at 03:24, Youness Alaoui wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:46:48PM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 2008/6/7 Thomas Geirhovd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Not wanting to sound too sceptical here (I like the idea of not >>> having >>> to upload skins and plugins manually anymore a lot), but in my >>> experience some of our skin and plugin authors does a poor job of >>> describing their own works, often because of poor skills in english. >>> Descriptions like "Skin for amsn 0.97" is not at all uncommon. Do we >>> want to remove this quality check? >> >> >> That's okay, because it's not our responsiblity :P Sorta kidding >> there. But >> I think when they can see their skin/plugin is going up into this >> sort of >> system then they may be more aware of the importance of a >> distinctive title, >> rather than when they just post in a forum. And we can always send >> authors a >> message, or leave comments (of course there'll be a commenting >> system ;) >> letting them know that a more 'branded' name might be more >> suitable, and, if >> they're stuck, make some suggestions :) >> > And if they're too stupid to put up a nice description, then > their skin might not be worth it anyways :p > > KKRT A description should just describe the screen shot.. Like "A dark skin, based on skin X by Y." Maybe tags would be more appropriate, like single words from specific categories. And have a system of inheritence. So a skinner can choose skin(s) that he/she based the work on. With that sort of info we can have a script write the description itself.
Blah probably a bit much, Tom > > >> >>> >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Tom Hennigan >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>>> Over the summer I would very much like to create aMSN-Extras >>>> online. >>>> It would be community maintained, so that people could upload >>>> updates >>>> of their skins/plugins directly there. I think this will be the >>>> most >>>> effective way to do it.. Some examples from other projects: >>>> http://www.adiumxtras.com/, http://www.gnome-look.org/ >>>> >>>> I am willing to take this on, but I have 2 heavy weeks of exams >>>> ahead, >>>> so it won't be online for maybe 3-4 weeks... >>>> >>>> What do you think? >>>> >>>> - Tom >>>> >>>> >>>> On 6 Jun 2008, at 05:54, Youness Alaoui wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi all, >>>>> >>>>> I don't know where our skin and plugins maintainer is >>>>> hiding, but I think it's time someone took care of posting >>>>> to the website all the skins and plugins that were submitted >>>>> on the forums. There are a lot of new skins/plugins and I >>>>> think that many users will enjoy them, if only they could >>>>> find them... >>>>> I also think we should show the screenshot of the skins >>>>> directly in the skins.php website (instead of having to >>>>> click on 'screenshot'), that will make it much easier for >>>>> the users to effectively 'browse' the available skins... >>>>> clicking on the screenshot would show it at full resolution >>>>> of course. >>>>> >>>>> Who's up for doing that ? >>>>> >>>>> p.s.: as a side note, I finished reverse engineering the ICE >>>>> protocol used by MSN for the audio conversations, all that >>>>> is left now is to implement 'msn compatibility' support in >>>>> libnice and upgrade to the newest farsight... will be done >>>>> sometime soon. For those who don't know, this will allow NAT >>>>> traversal so audio conversations will work a lot better... >>>>> >>>>> Thanks! >>>>> KaKaRoTo >>>>> >>>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>> Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. >>>>> It's the best place to buy or sell services for >>>>> just about anything Open Source. >>>>> http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Amsn-devel mailing list >>>>> Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net >>>>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel >>>> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services for > just about anything Open Source. > http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php > _______________________________________________ > Amsn-devel mailing list > Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Amsn-devel mailing list Amsn-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/amsn-devel
