Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-29 Thread Youness Alaoui
On 6/29/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 2008/6/29 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Sounds good. I'm away from tomorrow till July 15th, so I can't help till >> after then. I'll be happy to role with anything you've implemented.- Tom >> > Rightio, see you then! > Humm.

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-29 Thread capricious . falcon
2008/6/29 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sounds good. I'm away from tomorrow till July 15th, so I can't help till > after then. I'll be happy to role with anything you've implemented.- Tom > Rightio, see you then! > > > On 29 Jun 2008, at 00:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not as yet, sorry

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-29 Thread Tom Hennigan
Sounds good. I'm away from tomorrow till July 15th, so I can't help till after then. I'll be happy to role with anything you've implemented. - Tom On 29 Jun 2008, at 00:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not as yet, sorry; my laptop's power adaptor has died and all the files I need are on there re

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-28 Thread capricious . falcon
Not as yet, sorry; my laptop's power adaptor has died and all the files I need are on there really; I'm ordering one tomorrow, so hopefully I'll be back in actiion next week. What I think we need is some sort of abstract php/db framework that allows us and the public to create/manage various types

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-28 Thread Tom Hennigan
Any updates on this Tom J? - Tom On 10 Jun 2008, at 16:01, Youness Alaoui wrote: > I think those are great idea.. but let's try to first have > something working :p > > KKRT > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:08:48PM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 2008/6/10 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-10 Thread Youness Alaoui
I think those are great idea.. but let's try to first have something working :p KKRT On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 02:08:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2008/6/10 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On 10 Jun 2008, at 03:24, Youness Alaoui wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:46:

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-10 Thread capricious . falcon
2008/6/10 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 10 Jun 2008, at 03:24, Youness Alaoui wrote: > > > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:46:48PM +0100, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> 2008/6/7 Thomas Geirhovd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >>> Not wanting to sound too sceptical here (I like the idea of not

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-09 Thread Tom Hennigan
On 10 Jun 2008, at 03:24, Youness Alaoui wrote: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:46:48PM +0100, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> 2008/6/7 Thomas Geirhovd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Not wanting to sound too sceptical here (I like the idea of not >>> having >>> to upload skins and plugins manually an

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-09 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 04:46:48PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2008/6/7 Thomas Geirhovd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Not wanting to sound too sceptical here (I like the idea of not having > > to upload skins and plugins manually anymore a lot), but in my > > experience some of our skin and plu

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-09 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi, Thanks for the suggestion! I'm not sure either of the bandwidth requirement for now.. But I know that we use over 500GB/month just providing the html pages of the website.. so there's a lot of traffic there... We'll figure this out on our own, don't worry about it. There's always a solution! :)

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-09 Thread Youness Alaoui
A skin can't really have much of a description... it's a skin... for plugins, yeah "plugin for amsn" is wrong... I suppose we could let users modify the description or have a 'comments' thingy for the skins/plugins... but anyways, all that will be taken care of when the time comes... KKRT On Sat,

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-09 Thread capricious . falcon
2008/6/7 Thomas Geirhovd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Not wanting to sound too sceptical here (I like the idea of not having > to upload skins and plugins manually anymore a lot), but in my > experience some of our skin and plugin authors does a poor job of > describing their own works, often because of

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-09 Thread Thomas Geirhovd
Not wanting to sound too sceptical here (I like the idea of not having to upload skins and plugins manually anymore a lot), but in my experience some of our skin and plugin authors does a poor job of describing their own works, often because of poor skills in english. Descriptions like "Skin for am

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
That's a great idea. It's working well for Adium and it shouldn't be developers job to try to track all the plugins and skins that people are sending on forums and all that stuff. Delegate ;-) On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 2:08 AM, Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the summer I would very

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Shahnewaz Shahidi
I'm not sure what the bandwidth requirements for the site will be, but I have a basic Hostgator account that I'll gladly donate bandwidth from. I registered it so I could share pictures with my friends and it gets very little traffic. I wouldn't mind hosting the files at all. The total b

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Youness Alaoui
or... we could have them hosted on amsn-project.net temporarly and have a small script that runs once a day and uploads the file to upload.sf.net and emails amsn-devel for every file that wasn't yet 'sourceforge-ized'. Would be much easier and more importantly better for the users than having to do

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Hennigan
It would be authenticated of course, we'd need an accounts system, and some administrative control for moderators to be able to clean up/ remove spam. About the hosting, I'm not sure. Depends on what Tjikkun can provide.. We could ask people to host themselves, or to host on rapidshare or file

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hey, great stuff you guys! I can't wait to see the result of this, it's a great idea.. and having it 'community maintainer' is really awesome as it will make it much more interactive... The problem is.. where to host the files? if we want to host them on SF.net, it needs to be uploaded by an amsn

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread capricious . falcon
2008/6/6 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Help would be great! I think design is the first thing to consider. I've > come up with this over the last few days: > http://hosting.notjustanothermacuser.com/ae/. I'm not sure I like the > design, but I haven't got time to modify it at all atm.. > > N

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Hennigan
Help would be great! I think design is the first thing to consider. I've come up with this over the last few days: http://hosting.notjustanothermacuser.com/ae/ . I'm not sure I like the design, but I haven't got time to modify it at all atm.. Nothing is done apart from the front page so far.

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread capricious . falcon
2008/6/6 Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Over the summer I would very much like to create aMSN-Extras online. > It would be community maintained, so that people could upload updates > of their skins/plugins directly there. I think this will be the most > effective way to do it.. Some examples

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Boris Faure (aka billiob)
On 6/6/08, Tom Hennigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the summer I would very much like to create aMSN-Extras online. > It would be community maintained, so that people could upload updates > of their skins/plugins directly there. I think this will be the most > effective way to do it.. Some ex

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Boris Faure (aka billiob)
> I don't know where our skin and plugins maintainer is > hiding, but I think it's time someone took care of posting > to the website all the skins and plugins that were submitted > on the forums. There are a lot of new skins/plugins and I > think that many users will enjoy them, if only they could

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-06 Thread Tom Hennigan
Over the summer I would very much like to create aMSN-Extras online. It would be community maintained, so that people could upload updates of their skins/plugins directly there. I think this will be the most effective way to do it.. Some examples from other projects: http://www.adiumxtras.com

[Amsn-devel] skins and plugins

2008-06-05 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hi all, I don't know where our skin and plugins maintainer is hiding, but I think it's time someone took care of posting to the website all the skins and plugins that were submitted on the forums. There are a lot of new skins/plugins and I think that many users will enjoy them, if only they could

Re: [Amsn-devel] Skins website needs updating(?)

2006-08-09 Thread Philippe Valembois - Phil
I don't think... Phil Le Wednesday 09 August 2006 01:18, Thomas Geirhovd a écrit : > Hi, > > Will 0.95 skins work with 0.96, and vice-versa? > If not, we need a new field in the skins list for required aMSN version. - Using

[Amsn-devel] Skins website needs updating(?)

2006-08-08 Thread Thomas Geirhovd
Hi, Will 0.95 skins work with 0.96, and vice-versa? If not, we need a new field in the skins list for required aMSN version. -- Regards, Thomas Geirhovd - Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, sec

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-24 Thread Youness Alaoui
no, savefile would be used only as a mean to transfer the file from the user's pc to the amsn team, that's it, we won't be using it as a mean to store the files... even if we did, I don't think we'll ever get a 0 downloads per day, even less per month... KKRT On Wed, 24 May 2006 08:18:41 -

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-24 Thread Lee Olson
On 5/20/06, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cool for savefile, it looks nice and without ads! :) well then we hsould maybe add that to the annoucement on how to submit a skin. Savefile is a good option, but be sure to remember that: When will my file be deleted? - All files with no

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-20 Thread Youness Alaoui
Cool for savefile, it looks nice and without ads! :) well then we hsould maybe add that to the annoucement on how to submit a skin. OT : I just tested the site, and it's really easy and cool, here's the uploaded file, a funny commercial : http://www.savefile.com/files/3339057 :D KKRT O

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-20 Thread Philippe Valembois - Phil
It's not a news :p The tracker is a bad thing for huge files... Maybe opening one directory to "others" in our web space ? Maybe use a free file hosting solution like http://www.savefile.com The user uploads the file (up to 60MB) and send us the link across the tracker... It is without ads... Phi

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-20 Thread Youness Alaoui
lol, yes, very copyright-ish, and, so what ? it's not our skin, we aren't the authors :P also, how about the msn4 and msn7 skins we already have on svn, it's the same, no ? anyways, a more important matter is in cause here, we were supposed to have the skins uploaded to the tracker, but read

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-20 Thread Sander Hoentjen
On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 12:06 -0400, Youness Alaoui wrote: > Hey there, > we have a skins tracker and I don't know if anyone knows about it or > manages it.. the skin manager seems to be busy/away/whatever so we need a > replacement.. someone wants to handle it ? or do we need to hire more > wo

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-19 Thread Thomas Geirhovd
On 5/19/06, Youness Alaoui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:50:16 -0400, Thomas Geirhovd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Seems like I forgot my forum password. My username is tg90nor if there > is anything you can do about it. > bad, bad.. how could one forget his own passowrd :P

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-19 Thread Youness Alaoui
On Fri, 19 May 2006 12:50:16 -0400, Thomas Geirhovd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Seems like I forgot my forum password. My username is tg90nor if there is anything you can do about it. bad, bad.. how could one forget his own passowrd :P anywyas, I think Phil knows how to do it, he's a 133t h

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-19 Thread Thomas Geirhovd
Seems like I forgot my forum password. My username is tg90nor if there is anything you can do about it. I will upload all pending skins/plugins, and make sure they go to the tracker in the future. BTW, I will have much more spare time from now on, and I am willing to become some sort of "communi

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-19 Thread Youness Alaoui
Ok, thank you Thomas for answering so fast! I hope you're doing ok! I'll be waiting for someone else to propose being a skin/plugin manager alongside with you. In the meantime, when you get some time, can you give us (or to the other skin manager when he gets chosen) the info that you got, whi

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-19 Thread Thomas Geirhovd
I am back for the moment, but having two skin/plugin managers would be preferrable. Some skins/plugins have been in the upload queue for months, and I dont want that to happen again! I will make a forum post today or tomorrow, and update the website if necessary. -- Regards, Thomas Geirhovd On

[Amsn-devel] skins

2006-05-19 Thread Youness Alaoui
Hey there, we have a skins tracker and I don't know if anyone knows about it or manages it.. the skin manager seems to be busy/away/whatever so we need a replacement.. someone wants to handle it ? or do we need to hire more workforce? Look at one of the skins I found in the tracker : http:

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins on website

2005-12-02 Thread Lee Olson
On 12/2/05, Yves Manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > or you could just make a seperate page for the old skins > That was my plan... that's why I was trying to say in my email. For now I would display the new 0.95 skins, link to the old skins page (including the warning about not being compatible

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins on website

2005-12-02 Thread Yves Manuel
or you could just make a seperate page for the old skinsOn 12/2/05, Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:I totally agree with you. Anyway skin from 0.94 don't behave in thesame way on 0.95 (we changed and add a lot of keys) so let's justkeep 0.95 skins. We have enough skins anyway. aDarw

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins on website

2005-12-02 Thread Youness Alaoui
I also agree... keep 0.95-compatible skins in the webpage and add the end of the page, add something like : Old skins : Skins for aMSN 0.94 with the "skins for amsn 0.94" clickable to go to a page with those skins.. once 0.96 is out, we'll have the same, add a "skins for aMSN 0.95" added

Re: [Amsn-devel] skins on website

2005-12-02 Thread Jérôme Gagnon-Voyer
I totally agree with you. Anyway skin from 0.94 don't behave in the same way on 0.95 (we changed and add a lot of keys) so let's just keep 0.95 skins. We have enough skins anyway. aDarwin, your skin, default, aMSN for Mac skin, unified, that's enough for a launch. Le 05-12-02 à 19:59, Lee Ol

[Amsn-devel] skins on website

2005-12-02 Thread Lee Olson
Concerning the new website, do we want to include all old skins which were contained on our old skins page, or shall I only include the few skins that have been tested to work with 0.95? : old skins page: http://amsn.sourceforge.net/modules.php?name=Skins My vote is to only show the new skins, an