Re: Easier submissions

[Michael Gebhart <lists miketech net>]

Hi,

I think that an "Import from gnome-look" button would be really nice for
some people. But there should also be a possibility to submit data
easier without gnome-look.

I know, that uploading to the ago - server isn´t possible. But there are
a lot of free ftp servers available, where uploading files of < 2 MB is
possible. Why not register a free ftp server for uploading the data? So:
The user can upload data. Where the stuff becomes uploaded first isn´t
important for the user. Later the data can be copied from the free ftp
server to the original ago server. 

If gnome-look had an xml interface it would be very easy to access the
data :) But extracting the data via HTML shouldn´t be very hard too. The
user should enter the ID of the theme, then the content can be accessed
on the page:

gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=ID

You should read the HTML Page with PHP and search for specific strings
like:

<b>Type:</b> 

But I don´t know, how this can be done with PHP easily.

Greetings

Mike

> Just brainstorming here - wondering how we could make submissions easier 
> for people (other than finding a perl or python script to actually allow 
> upload of files...)
> 
> Given that a lot of people post to gnome-look.org first, then copy their 
>   post to art.gnome.org, what do people think of the possibility of a 
> "copy submission from gnome-look" button?! I don't know much about 
> extracting data from html, so I'm hoping someone could let me know how 
> possible it is to do from gnome-look.
> 
> -Thomas
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