On 9/2/05, Henrik Nilsen Omma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The good news is that the maintainers are friendly and helpful and seem > willing to accept our changes into their tree to make it more general so > we can all continue to use the same version. That will be useful for us > as they make more enhancements.
One thing I'd also like to make you aware of Henrik - the IRC user (and an art.gnome.org web developer) with the handle "miketech" has a GTK program that automagically fetches, previews and even installs various pieces of artwork (backgrounds, window decorations, etc). I don't know if that functionality is built into the art.gnome.org website code or if it's something extra, but I know miketech is working to make his app multi-website compatible. I believe he may even have this functionality in his development code as he's shown me screenshots with a drop-down box to select either art.gnome.org or art.ubuntu.com. There's no rush for us to get this working right away, as I don't believe his app is in Ubuntu's main repository for Breezy, but it could be very cool for a future release. (especially if the backend stuff is already built into the website!). Another bonus is that they're trying to get gnome-looks.org and kde-looks.org in on this project, so in the future we may have a general purpose system for previewing and installing artwork from a HUGE community of Linux artists. (keep in mind this is general artwork and not just the bits that make it directly into the Ubuntu distro). For others that are playing around with our "soon-to-be" art site and would like to get more insight into it's inner workings, the web developers for art.gnome.org hang out in the #gnome-art IRC channel on irc.gimp.org. As Henrik said, that group has been very friendly and helpful the times I've spent chatting with them on IRC. -- Aaron Ubuntu SVG Artwork - www.volvoguy.net/ubuntu ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere. ~ G.K. Chesterton
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