Any updates on this Tom J? - Tom
On 10 Jun 2008, at 16:01, Youness Alaoui wrote: > I think those are great idea.. but let's try to first have > something working :p > > KKRT > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:08:48PM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 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 >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>>> 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 >>> > >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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. 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