Hi there, On 04 Sep 2003 at 21:05:38 +0300, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
> Of course, theoretically this may be a problem, but > practically... I can't speak for others, but personally, > in 95% of cases I either like or not like the artist > style. But if I like some really best logo in the > remaining 5%, I will vote for its artist for sure. So I > see no problem. > > Anyway, if you may do it easy for both you to implement > and voters to choose the best logo in one stage, go for > it. It seems a lot of work. I already working on it. My concept is the following I got (for fairness) one page where thumbnails of all logos are displayed. Actually I am not sure about the size of this page but it may be about 1 Mb. This is quite large but I don't like to split the page since someone could think logos on the second page are disadvantaged. This is already done. Each logo gets a number to identify it. I am going to group logos which belongs obviously together. These logos will be displayed together on the page, they will have the same number and one can only vote them together. These grouping is the next step to be done. >From the voting page each logo links to the big size at the authors page. -> Easy since all is php. Each logo/group gets a check button for voting. Voting require to insert a email-address in a web form. This may be done on the voting page itself or an extra page. I am not sure yet. To this email-address the web server send a password string, which the voter uses to take part on the voting. I not that sure about the string yet. This may be totally random generated or an randomly taken string from a dictionary. The web server stores the email-address - string combination to a file so that it can validate the voter. When the voter comes back to the voting page. He is required to insert its password. The web server will check it together with the email-address. The can make a new voting or changes it existing one. I am not sure how the voting information is store at the servers side. Storing it as php source code will be easy to handle. But it may be done in may small files or in one large file. For security purpose I am going to keep the files on another server as fvwm.org - maybe my university account, maybe another one. The bad thing is I am running out of time since the last 2 september weeks I am going work at another place. Where I might have limited time and limited access to my university account. Hopefully someone could help me a little bit out with the scripting. > On the related issue, it would be nice to hold a > competition for the best fvwm art (icons, wallpapers, > window decorations, menus, complete themes). We really > lack good dedicated artists. Probably more than we lack a > logo. Well, IMO it depends where you put the focus on fvwm. Certainly there are some other wms which have quite fancy styles and themes. But there is _none_ which is as flexible and configurable as fvwm. But you are right. Having some really good fvwm-own-themes, icons, wallpapers, ... will make fvwm more interessting. Besides fvwm-themes, it would might be nice to have complete tar-archives which extracts to ~/.fvwm and give a whole theme including icons, wallpapers, maybe sounds etc. Cheers, Uwe -- ,_, For personal reply/mail put "fvwm" (O,O) in the subject. ( ) Otherwise I won't receive our mail. --"-"---------------------------------------- -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
