Current Work

[Thomas Wood <thos gnome org>]

A couple of notes on the current upcoming work on art-web. Please choose 
something you'd like to work on, and let the list know you're working on it!

* I've added a submit_background template, and the same needs doing for 
submit_themes, and other pages. This would be a good place to start 
getting to know the art-web code if you want to help out. If someone 
would like to make the theme-detail template, then it would be nice to 
be able to close this bug too: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121552 (Theme download page 
should give installation instructions)

* Vincent Untz has made a preliminary French localised template. Goto 
http://art.gnome.org/?lang=fr to try it out. To switch back to english, 
use http://art.gnome.org/?lang=en. We now need an option to let the user 
switch between languages in the interface. If anyone feels like adding 
any more languages, feel free!

* Although I mentioned it in a previous e-mail, I'm not yet convinced we 
need loops in templates yet. We can always use a separate template to 
define items that are written out more than once (such as a list item).

* I wrote a quick "page" system yesterday. It allows for content pages 
(such as an about page and a resources page) to be stored in the 
database. My only concern so far is that perhaps this sort of page 
should be kept in the template so that it can be localised in the same 
way as the templates. However, it wouldn't be hard to add localisation 
in the way I have already implemented it. Does anyone have any comments 
on this?

* Now that templates have been implemented, I'd like to start work on 
the ToDo items that include UI changes. This includes allowing users to 
edit their theme descriptions and their own comments. Also on the list 
is improving the search page UI.

* There isn't yet a template for the front page but I also really want 
to improve the layout of the front page. If anyone has any suggestions, 
let me know!


-Thomas