On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 21:35, Denis Oliver Kropp wrote:
> Great, I thought about a rework from scratch many times.
> The current web site design doesn't really reflect how
> beautiful DirectFB is. I want a fancy but not overloaded page
> with much content, an open forum and knowledge base besides the
> closed-post mailing list, application & library catalogue,
> detailed hardware support charts/tables, benchmarks, polls ;)
> Very important: a bug tracking system, even more important: not Bugzilla.
> I don't like boring user interfaces. It should be simple, but powerful,
> fast and nice looking.
I was thinking about saying the same: Doesnt match the amazing DirectFB
:)
What do you think about phpBB as forum? Ill take a look around for
different OS bugtracking systems.. any suggestions?
In any situation Ill need a database postgreSQL og MySQL.. dont know if
its already on the server? and accounts to ftp/shell, SQL whatever.. no
hurry though since development will happen on my local machine..
I figure news/announcements, benchmarks, module info, screenshots, I
guess as much as possible stored in database..
Ill get started tomorrow when Ive had a good sleep after my last exam!
If Im am motivated enough Ill have a basic working site not long after
New Years I think.. depends on the how good the weather is ;) I think
that is an acceptable enough time to not "update" the modules page and
the like, but rather just wait for that untill the redesign.. or do you
disagree?
Ill get started tomorrow when Ive had a good sleep after my last exam!
have to make a list of pages in new site, e.g:
frontpage(
modules(gfxcards(features(), issues/bugs(), benchmarks(),...),
imageproviders(...),
...)
screenshots(..)
...)
and you can give me comments before I go ahead with that, in the mean
time: Play with Gimp! yay! and create structures for database tables..
And I also REALLY think that DirectFB needs a new logo! or what do you
think? Anyone have a nice one? Maybe ask Logo Guru Raster to make one?
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> Feel free to redesign the site from scratch. I thought about using php,
> but I guess you have your own favourites.
There is only one! PHP!
> > Most of my time coding is spent DirectFB related, currently working on
> > getting Evas and Ecore to properly support DirectFB with the final goal
> > of using this to create an Enlightened window manager for DirectFB,
> > which ofcourse means modifications to DirectFB itself.
>
> Indeed, interesting. I'm thinking of different window management modules
> used by the windowing core. These modules play a similar role like window
> managers for X, but they are not extra clients. The chosen window manager
> module will be loaded by each application, practically running in all
> processes calling functions of it. Well, like most parts of the core ;)
Not an expert but wouldnt that mean that if the app locks up somehow the
window manager (thing) would also lock? WM would still be running for
other processes ofcourse but, it would mean I couldnt kill the app by
hitting "X" on the window border (which metacity doesnt infact do, but E
does). the module approuch is nice in that it doesnt mess up the API to
much.
Also Id like to be able to do things like resize the window _content_
and do some other fancy stuff that panther does. havent thought about
how this could be done yet, but I have other things to think about atm
(Especially bugs in DirectFB which annoy me alot, but Ill come back to
that :)
well back to the books..
Hallvar Helleseth
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