On 6/10/05, Andreas Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I dare to claim that the websites for various gnome-apps needs to get > >>sexier. > >Yeah, the average site could stand to be nicer :) It would be nice if > >there were a > >gnome.org/projects/sample/ or something that included standard links > >like where to get it, hacking tips, so on, so forth, that people could > >copy/paste to do their own site from. > Sure, I'll get on that one as soon as possible.
Sweet. Like I said, I would volunteer to use this and give you feedback once you got a little something started. > >[Oh, and a sexier http://gnome.org/projects/ would be a nice one-time > >fix for someone too!] Jeff and I have talked about this a bit on web-list, FWIW, Andreas; don't know if you are on there or not. > >>Right now it's a bit hard to find information on how to start hacking on > >>your favorite gnome-app. This might lead to people intersted in > >>contributing to a project, don't have a clue where to look. Some > >>projects have websites on www.gnome.org/projects/, some of them are nice > >>(the evolution site is fantastic), but some are really unmaintained and > >>are in desperate need of updates (like the nautilus website and the one > >>for g-conf). > >> > >> > > > >To a certain extent, we do want to centralize that information, since > >there is so much that would be repeated, and because we want to > >publicize hacking on many things, even things that don't really > >need/deserve a website (like gnome-session, for example.) > > > > > Perhaps both. Imagine someone surfing gnomefiles.org and finds, lets > say, eye of gnome. Click the link that leads to the website for that > project, tries it out and feels the need to say draw a new icon (!). If > there are some nice information on how to reach the developers right > there on that site it would be really nice. But yeah, I see your point > that it would be a lot of work to maintain websites with somewhat the > same content for every module in gnome. A lot of stuff could probably be > generated automaticly though. Given that we have at this point a very poor web infrastructure (despite discussions on how to fix that that now go back for three years) I'd recommend against auto-generating things. Perhaps for now the right approach is for the GFooBar template to have sections that allow for customization, but generally offer pointers to useful project-wide links: Getting Involved =========== To get involved, contact FILLMEIN More information about getting involved with other GNOME apps (and many tips that apply to GFooBar) can be found at http://live.gnome.org/GettingInvolved Debuggging ========= In most ways, GFooBar is a typical GNOME App; you should refer to http://developer.gnome.org/debugging for more information on debugging it, and (more generic links). Specific things you need to be aware of when debugging GFooBar: FILLMEIN list Drawing Icons ========== All icons drawn for GFooBar should match the GNOME Icon Style Guide, <link> If you want to draw a specific icon for GFooBar, contact our team artist at FILLMEIN (or gnome-art-list if there is no team artist.) (Not really sure if I'm making myself clear here, or if this would get updated very often. I would hope so :) > And yes, there defenetly needs to be some easier way to find the > relevant information on how to start hacking on some project, what > urgently needs to be fixed and stuff like that. Someone really needs to > overlook developer.gnome.org and figure out what is outdated and if it > is possible to make start hacking on gnome sound like fun. More on that > later down. Agreed that developer.gnome.org is stagnant and it is not a healthy sign for us that no one cares to fix it. <snip lots of positive talk about evo's website> > I probably could go on like this for hours about the site... ;) So incorporate some of those ideas into the template ;) > >>It included how to get the software both via ftp and via CVS for those > >>interested in hacking. It also included some nice screenshots and a > >>short description of the software. > >> > >>I also discovered that it was really easy to alter the gedit-site to > >>make it fit for other projects and gave the nautilus website a try...se > >>here for my results: http://ramnet.se/~nisse/diverse/nautilus. > >> > >> > > > >Cool! Screenshot, maybe? :) > > > > > What, of the page? It is right there... No, of nautilus :) People like screenshots ;) > >>Hopefully > >>it will be up on the main site in a couple of days. > >Do you need help getting it committed? > > > > > Yes, I don't have cvs access of any kind. Alex asked me if I could > maintain it and I have mailed Christian Schaller that was in charge of > the old page...but yet no response. Should I send a tarball to you so > you can put it there? Yeah, I could totally take a tarball and commit it for you. Luis _______________________________________________ gnome-web-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-web-list
