> I agree with this, however, screenshots could be limited to the > "Mandrake choice" packages, and instead of being included in the > distribution, been linked to a page on Mandrakeclub, as I suggested > before. Why not simply using a HTML link to such screenshot ? A > screenshot is really handful, it shows in one instant the layout of a > software, and gives a rough idea of its possibilities.
To include screenshots or pictures from http sources in packages, it would be nice to add a new Picture tag in rpms. For example, the OpenOffice.org package could have the following tags : Picture0: http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/box.png Picture1: http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/writer-big.png Picture2: http://www.openoffice.org/product/pix/calc-big.png The pictures could be saved in a cache directory, what do you think of /var/cache/urpmi/pictures/<package group>/<package name>/<picture name> ? For people who do not have a broadband connection, a checkbox would allow them not to download screenshots. For them, a package with thumbnails of screenshots in cache could be created just before final release. Such a package would perhaps be too huge. Pictures could be shared between packages, for example for xine and all its libs or devel packages. -- Olivier Blin
