On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:53 PM, Dylan McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > Cool! Is there a place where we can take a look at the existing efforts, > or is that in specification stage right now?
The latter, which needs to be done today, then we can start on implementation. > There are a few reasons for going with HTML: I thought about this some more, and I believe we're getting gwibber in main in support of the "social from the start" work [1], which gives us python-webkit for free. 1: https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-social-from-the-start I think the rest are all fair points, and I am now of the belief that we should integrate the work of the ubiquity slideshow team into ubiquity proper, using webkit as the necessary glue. I wasn't keen on throwing away all that work anyway :) Thanks for making a convincing argument. I've modified the specification to reflect these changes. > Looking forward to what Gerry comes up with. I'm thinking of the current > slides (and deeply sorry I never made this clear earlier) as almost a > skeleton. Although what is there is /nice/, there's a lot of time to get > these perfect, so a spirit of phoenix-like rebirth springs to mind. With > a skeleton (and some pretty good content and screenshots, if I may say > so), new contributions - be they new slides or amendments to slides - > can base themselves on what they know exists. Good stuff springs from > that. Sure, understood. > I also have some simple writing guidelines in the Readme at > lp:ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu (which the whole thing is currently not > compliant with, but dreams of being some day). I trust Gerry and the > design team to come up with some pretty brilliantly awesome stuff > regardless, but it's there if wanted. Noted, thanks. > Thanks for all the information, Evan. Thanks for already putting a fair amount of work into this. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubiquity-slideshow Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubiquity-slideshow More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
