Re: Making websites for gnome-apps sexier

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Luis Villa wrote:

> On 6/10/05, Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se> wrote:
>  
>
> > > > I dare to claim that the websites for various gnome-apps needs to get
> > > > sexier.
> > > >        
> > > Yeah, the average site could stand to be nicer :) It would be nice if
> > > there were a
> > > gnome.org/projects/sample/ or something that included standard links
> > > like where to get it, hacking tips, so on, so forth, that people could
> > > copy/paste to do their own site from.
> > >      
> > Sure, I'll get on that one as soon as possible.
> >    
>
> Sweet. Like I said, I would volunteer to use this and give you
> feedback once you got a little something started.
>  
Thanks!

>  
>
> > > [Oh, and a sexier http://gnome.org/projects/ would be a nice one-time
> > > fix for someone too!]
> > >      
>
> Jeff and I have talked about this a bit on web-list, FWIW, Andreas;
> don't know if you are on there or not.
>  
Yes, since a couple of days back.

> > Perhaps both. Imagine someone surfing gnomefiles.org and finds, lets
> > say, eye of gnome. Click the link that leads to the website for that
> > project, tries it out and feels the need to say draw a new icon (!).  If
> > there are some nice information on how to reach the developers right
> > there on that site it would be really nice. But yeah, I see your point
> > that it would be a lot of work to maintain websites with somewhat the
> > same content for every module in gnome. A lot of stuff could probably be
> > generated automaticly though.
> >    
>
> Given that we have at this point a very poor web infrastructure
> (despite discussions on how to fix that that now go back for three
> years) I'd recommend against auto-generating things. Perhaps for now
> the right approach is for the GFooBar template to have sections that
> allow for customization, but generally offer pointers to useful
> project-wide links:
>
> Getting Involved
> ===========
>
> To get involved, contact FILLMEIN
>
> More information about getting involved with other GNOME apps (and
> many tips that apply to GFooBar) can be found at
> http://live.gnome.org/GettingInvolved
>
> Debuggging
> =========
>
> In most ways, GFooBar is a typical GNOME App; you should refer to
> http://developer.gnome.org/debugging for more information on debugging
> it, and (more generic links).
>
> Specific things you need to be aware of when debugging GFooBar:
> FILLMEIN list
>
> Drawing Icons
> ==========
>
> All icons drawn for GFooBar should match the GNOME Icon Style Guide, <link>
>
> If you want to draw a specific icon for GFooBar, contact our team
> artist at FILLMEIN (or gnome-art-list if there is no team artist.)
>
> (Not really sure if I'm making myself clear here, or if this would get
> updated very often. I would hope so :)
>  
Are there currently a gnome-art-list?
This is badly needed in order to get new artists. Currently an aspiring 
artist have no or little clue where to turn.

>  
>
> > And yes, there defenetly needs to be some easier way to find the
> > relevant information on how to start hacking on some project, what
> > urgently needs to be fixed and stuff like that. Someone really needs to
> > overlook developer.gnome.org and figure out what is outdated and if it
> > is possible to make start hacking on gnome sound like fun. More on that
> > later down.
> >    
>
> Agreed that developer.gnome.org is stagnant and it is not a healthy
> sign for us that no one cares to fix it.
>
> <snip lots of positive talk about evo's website>
>  
>
> > I probably could go on like this for hours about the site... ;)
> >    
>
> So incorporate some of those ideas into the template ;)
>  
I will.

> > > Do you need help getting it committed?
> > >
> > >
> > >      
> > Yes, I don't have cvs access of any kind. Alex asked me if I could
> > maintain it and I have mailed Christian Schaller that was in charge of
> > the old page...but yet no response. Should I send a tarball to you so
> > you can put it there?
> >    
>
> Yeah, I could totally take a tarball and commit it for you.
>
> Luis
>  
Good. I'll send it to you tomorrow.
- Andreas