2008/6/29 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Sounds good. I'm away from tomorrow till July 15th, so I can't help till
> after then. I'll be happy to role with anything you've implemented.- Tom
>
Rightio, see you then!
>
>
> On 29 Jun 2008, at 00:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Not as yet, sorry; my laptop's power adaptor has died and all the files I
> need are on there really; I'm ordering one tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be
> back in actiion next week. What I think we need is some sort of abstract
> php/db framework that allows us and the public to create/manage various
> types of 'items' be they skins, plugins or whatever, with each having an
> automatically updated rss feed. We'd also need an overarching search
> function. I've been working on something similar for other projects I've
> been doing, trying to make it as modular and abstract as possible so it's
> flexible enough to accomodate practically anything... we could try running
> from that, or doing something different?
>
> Tom
>
> 2008/6/28 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>> 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
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>>>
>> >>>>>>
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