On 6/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 2008/6/29 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>> 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!
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Humm... me too, I'll be away from wednesday til July 14th! I'll be going to
Istambul for GUADEC... are you going too? :) If anyone is going or lives
near Istambul, it would be nice to meet! :)
Good luck with the project and keep us updated ;)
Bye
On 29 Jun 2008, at 00:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>> 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
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>> 2008/6/28 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>>> Any updates on this Tom J?
>>>
>>> - Tom
>>>
>>> On 10 Jun 2008, at 16:01, Youness Alaoui wrote:
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>>> > 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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