2008/6/10 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> 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,
Lol, no, I like that! Maybe the automated description would be a little
control-freakish, but I think tags is a great idea, and inheritance also-
this way if users like the skin but think maybe it's not quite to their
taste, they can look at its 'ancestors' as it were :)
>
>
> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
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