I agree it would be good to know progress. It would be useful perhaps if themes could be added to the iGoogle Dashboard and monitored in a similar way as gadgets.
On Apr 30, 2:38 am, BlueQuoll <[email protected]> wrote: > The Google policy of not providing feedback to a theme developer > regarding the progress of their theme submission can be very > frustrating. > > Unpredictable lead times often leave the developer in limbo, wondering > whether the reason for their theme's non-appearance in the theme > directory is due to > • long lead time > • policy-based rejection > • code-based rejection > • fallen through the cracks > > While I understand it's not practical to provide a mechanism to allow > tracking of every theme submission, it would greatly assist if > developers could at least be notified of rejections, so they know > • they can stop waiting for the theme to appear > • they can rectify the problem and re-submit > > Just letting a developer wait interminably seems not to be a very user- > friendly way to go! I got into the habit of re-submitting any of my > slow-to-appear themes after a couple of weeks. I still don't know > whether the repeated re-submission helped, but all themes except my > latest eventually appeared in the theme directory. > > My latest theme submission (successful according to the submission > messages) was a couple of weeks ago. It would be good to know whether > it has been rejected and might need modification before I re-submit > it:http://users.on.net/~dvcox/gadgets/ozscapes01.xml > > Although, with the test URL broken I can't check any modifications I > might make, so the exercise is a bit pointless at the moment! > > Dave > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group > athttp://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en.
