On 11/5/05, Carol Spears <carol@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 04:33:08PM +0000, michael chang wrote: > > On 11/4/05, Carol Spears <carol@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > > i considered what sort of collections of blogs i would find useful. i > > > also considered what could happen if only a small fraction of the gimp > > > users added their blog to the feed. the developers would be lost. if > > > there was only one feed, the news would get lost as well. > > > > > > i agree that some explanation would help, i got a little confused myself > > > by the gimp object scheme this week while making them. after a short > > > break in working with them, i will see what i can do about adding a > > > little more information. > > > > Quite nice, the clean interface makes it easy on the eyes, and it > > looks like it'll break down nicely if someone's using a console-based > > browser (e.g. Lynx). > > > thank you. the very first thing they did when i showed my first gimp > web site on the irc was to try it in lynx. this is a fact for anyone > trying to design a gimp web site. > > > Since it's already set up like that, I don't know if you want to > > change it, but maybe a unified header + description at the top, > > followed by a selection for Layers | Pixels | Paths would be > > interesting... http://blogs.gimp.org/layers, > > http://blogs.gimp.org/pixels, and http://blogs.gimp.org/paths URIs > > would make sense (although that's less creative, i suppose, than your > > current offerings). If you did do something like that, > > http://blogs.gimp.org would maybe also have the same main header as on > > the above three sites, and then split the three aggregated feeds into > > individual columns with mini-headers... maybe similar to the column > > layout at http://www.google.com/ig (except not so interactive and > > messy...)... each column would be headed b the individual "Layers", > > "Pixels" and "Paths" blogs headings respectively. > > > one of my irc friends (i always forget that he is one of the people who > actually does the work running the gnome computers -- that kind of > friend, they are great to make and a rare human who is a friend more > than a superhuman ruler of an actual internet domain) does not like the > word blog. he said that he doesn't mind the idea of it but would prefer > that people call them web journals or web logs. > > the planet software suggests the word planet. it is implied that the > planets show developer web logs. i almost missed this implication and > called the user aggregation a planet. there are a bunch of "planets" > already. > > blogs.gimp.org -- what if the gimp computers started to have more than > just me on the computer with a blog? *shrugs* To me, blog doesn't sound right either -- it is a sort of made-up word anyway. But the idea of a quasi-unified interface was just that, an idea. The concept of a whatever.gimp.org/section seemed to make sense to me since the content ... source-type is the same? I have no clue now... Planet would sound nice, except, yes, it is way too common, and I don't think it sounds GIMPy enough (if that's a word). > two thoughts about putting the feeds all on one page. 1) is that > useful? and 2) gimp is making new images for two of them everyday. > they are random in content (somewhat) and also size. a unified look > more than what there is now is not more important than how cool those > random images are, in my opinion. Hm. Very true, since I guess the whole purpose of the layout is to not detract from the actual content in and of itself. [Well, at least I didn't suggest DHTML sliding menus or panels or something. ;)] > i think a short text explaining whose web logs should be enough. Well, it was just an idea -- whatever works, I say. In any case, good luck. -- ~Mike - Just my two cents - No man is an island, and no man is unable. _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
