Hi,
Quoting Geert Stappers (2019-03-24 09:53:58)
> > bear with me if the topic of the upcoming european copyright law (aka §13)
> > has been discussed in other mailing lists. As being responsible for
> > screenshots.debian.net I honestly am a bit worried about the implicat
On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 12:13:37PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
> Fellow devs,
>
> bear with me if the topic of the upcoming european copyright law (aka
> §13) has been discussed in other mailing lists. As being responsible for
> screenshots.debian.net I honestly am a bi
Fellow devs,
bear with me if the topic of the upcoming european copyright law (aka
§13) has been discussed in other mailing lists. As being responsible for
screenshots.debian.net I honestly am a bit worried about the
implications. As usual… IANAL.
Management summary: screenshots.debian.net
Daniel Burrows wrote:
[...]
I'm not surprised that the bandwidth consumption is excessive,
though. I'll think it over once I figure out why my VteTerminals
self-destruct when I hide them...
What about using the coral network?
http://screenshots.debian.net.nyud.net/
Have fun! (yes, that
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 09:12:08PM -0800, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
I'm not surprised that the bandwidth consumption is excessive,
though. I'll think it over once I figure out why my VteTerminals
self-destruct when I hide them...
For anyone who cares, the answer
] was heard to say:
Thumbnail (= 160x120 pixels):
http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME
(this URL returns a dummy thumbnail if no screenshot was found)
Just one quick question: will there eventually be support for
different versions to have different screenshots
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:02:45PM +0200, George Danchev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Monday 17 November 2008 18:13:55 Daniel Burrows wrote:
When the user clicks on a package in the GUI interface, they see the
description of the package. I don't know what sort of load this would
that casual browsing of the package list
does not generate network traffic on s.d.n
I think even that will be quite a hit to screenshots.debian.net. I
imagine in the future it may make sense to have a package for this
(this was suggested already IIRC) so that the download bw is spread
over all
On Montag, 17. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:46:27PM +0100, Christoph Haas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
There should be a way to select what screenshot you want. I'm saving
the version number along with the screenshot.
Personally, I would rather
On Mon, 17 Nov 2008, Christoph Haas wrote:
On Montag, 17. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Personally, I would rather be able to provide a version number
and then get the best screenshot you have.
What is the best? :)
I have o idea what Daniel had in mind, but I'd regard the
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:49:06AM +0100, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
On Montag, 17. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 07:46:27PM +0100, Christoph Haas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
There should be a way to select what screenshot you
On Monday 17 November 2008 18:13:55 Daniel Burrows wrote:
--cut--
There is one. It uses the HTTP protocol. :) Just do an HTTP POST request
and send the three fields like in the upload form.
Err...when I go to upload I get a webform, not a URL to point to? How
do I generate an HTTP POST
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 08:13:55, Daniel Burrows wrote:
Let's just say, hypothetically speaking, that I'm the developer of a
GUI package manager for Debian. It would be nice (where by nice I mean
*really UBERCOOL*) if, whenever users see a list of packages, they could
see a little thumbnail
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 5:46 AM, Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe for stable it would make sense to create a debian-screenshots
package that could be used by all package managers wishing to provide
this or similar functionality.
There is already a games-thumbnails package (used
2008/11/15 Andreas Metzler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/11 Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Good idea. 110x80 would be a nice size for the thumbnails.
I think it would be better to try to keep a 4:3 ratio.
I disagree; the aspect ratio of the screenshot would
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
Thumbnail (= 160x120 pixels):
http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME
(this URL returns a dummy thumbnail if no screenshot was found)
Just one quick question: will there eventually
On Sonntag, 16. November 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote:
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:18:26PM +0100, Christoph Haas
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say:
Thumbnail (= 160x120 pixels):
http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME
(this URL returns a dummy thumbnail if no screenshot
Christoph Haas wrote:
[...]
There should be a way to select what screenshot you want. I'm saving the
version number along with the screenshot. So in theory I could tell which
one is for a newer version of the software than the other (although I'd
have to 'dpkg --compare-versions' because I
://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME
(this URL returns a dummy thumbnail if no screenshot was found)
Just one quick question: will there eventually be support for
different versions to have different screenshots? Occasionally
there's a big difference across versions, and users might
application or web site. Just use these URLs:
Thumbnail (= 160x120 pixels):
http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME
(this URL returns a dummy thumbnail if no screenshot was found)
Package's page with all available screenshots:
http://screenshots.debian.net/package
or gnome-apt. It is
easy to refer to screenshots from your own application or web site.
Just use these URLs:
Thumbnail (= 160x120 pixels):
http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME
(this URL returns a dummy thumbnail if no screenshot was found)
Package's page with all
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Martin Stigge wrote:
What about: People can contribute screenshots in whatever language they
want and the screenshot will be language-tagged. A viewer-frontend can
then adopt a behavior like show all screenshots of my language, and if
none exist, fallback to English. (Or
Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/11 Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Good idea. 110x80 would be a nice size for the thumbnails.
I think it would be better to try to keep a 4:3 ratio.
I disagree; the aspect ratio of the screenshot would be correct.
Sorry? In which way is 110X80 a
On Freitag, 14. November 2008, Andreas Tille wrote:
Please excuse my cumbersomeness but may I repeat my hint that a
potential Screenshots 2.0 system should enable multi language
screenshots. I'm in big favour of translating everything which is
targeting at end users and screenshots are
Hi,
kudos from me for this nice service as well!!
On Friday 14 November 2008 10:28, Christoph Haas wrote:
Screenshots in
several languages carry very little different information IMHO and don't
warrant the extra hard disk space and effort to have them on the web
server. Or am I totally off
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 10:28:52AM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
I'm about to make the application i18n-savvy. But I'm more thinking of the
text messages in the web interface than of the screenshots. Screenshots in
several languages carry very little different information IMHO and don't
Quoting Stefano Zacchiroli ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Still, for different alphabets there might be an added value. AFAICT
it is possible that an application looks sensibly different when using
a left-to-right vs a right-to-left language.
Indeed, I support zack's suggestion. Allowing multiple
2008/11/14 Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Maybe the right solution is support some kind of language tagging to
be associated to each screenshot.
+1
Greetings,
Miry
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Hi Christoph,
There's a little typo on the page ... appliation. Also, when you
say English, which one do you mean?
Cheers,
Michael
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Hi, Michael...
On Donnerstag, 13. November 2008, Michael Lamothe wrote:
There's a little typo on the page ... appliation.
Thanks, fixed.
Also, when you say English, which one do you mean?
I mean that west germanic language[0]. I wouldn't delete a screenshot just
because one uses 's' where
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Christoph Haas wrote:
Thanks, fixed.
Also, when you say English, which one do you mean?
I mean that west germanic language[0]. I wouldn't delete a screenshot just
because one uses 's' where the other uses 'z'. :)
[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language
Nov 2008, Christoph Haas wrote:
Fellow developers...
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
after two weeks of programming fun.
It is an effort to help users get an idea what a certain application does
and how it looks like
Marc,
On Mittwoch, 12. November 2008, Marc Bertram wrote:
Thank you for this great service!
Great you like it.
I found a bug in the search results.
If you go to another page of the search results (e.g. 2), you go
back on the page browsing screenshots.
I think there is a wrong link to the
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also need lists of packages without screenshots for a given dist:
s.d.n/needed/sid/a
s.d.n/needed/etch/b
In a similar vein, it might be a good idea to have per-maintainer
lists of packages with outdated screenshots or no
Hi,
Christoph Haas wrote:
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
Have fun and let me know what you think.
Thank you for this; it looks very nice!
+1
* what does the search field operate on? A search for
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
Have fun and let me know what you think.
Another minor one: when browsing through the result of a package
search, please repeat somewhere the search string, a-la-google result
for search foo bar baz. It just happened to me that I
I demand that Miriam Ruiz may or may not have written...
2008/11/11 Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:38:44AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I believe the answer is that in the future there will be more
screenshot, but what about giving the ability of seeing one
2008/11/11 Darren Salt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Good idea. 110x80 would be a nice size for the thumbnails.
I think it would be better to try to keep a 4:3 ratio.
I disagree; the aspect ratio of the screenshot would be correct.
Sorry? In which way is 110X80 a correct ratio?
Conventional screens are
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:54:07PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
I think it would be better to try to keep a 4:3 ratio.
I disagree; the aspect ratio of the screenshot would be correct.
Conventional screens are 4:3 or 16:9, and most usual resolutions keep
4:3 ratio (640x480, 800x600, 1024x768...)
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 09:24:18PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:54:07PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
I think it would be better to try to keep a 4:3 ratio.
I disagree; the aspect ratio of the screenshot would be correct.
Conventional screens are 4:3 or 16:9,
2008/11/11 Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So it can be that your disagreement is not that relevant :)
I won't keep on arguing that, my point was clear enough.
Not at all, I was assuming that no matter what size the uploaded image is, it
would be scaled down to fit inside a bounding box and
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 05:49:40PM -0600, Raphael Geissert wrote:
I do think the page lengths, or result count per page, could be increased.
+1
AOL.
... and on the same subject, is there a restriction of one screenshot
per package (I believe not), because currently the pages of the single
2008/11/11 Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:38:44AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I believe the answer is that in the future there will be more
screenshot, but what about giving the ability of seeing one (maybe the
most popular) screenshot directly from the result
On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Raphael Geissert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* When browsing the packages list it would be great if you could also
provide links to browse packages by name (e.g. A, B, C, etc, you get
what I mean). * Have you
On Tue Nov 11, 2008 at 01:02:42 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
* There are 14 pages and the navigation is truncated to 'Page: 1 2 3 ..
14 '. Could you (optionally) display links to all pages? Or alter
the number of results per page (increase, or make user configurable)?
I'll change
On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also need lists of packages without screenshots for a given dist:
s.d.n/needed/sid/a
s.d.n/needed/etch/b
In a similar vein, it might be a good idea to have
On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:02:42AM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
* There are 14 pages and the navigation is truncated to 'Page: 1 2
3 .. 14 '. Could you (optionally) display links to all pages? Or
alter the number of results per
Hi, Florian...
On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Florian Maier wrote:
Christoph Haas wrote:
Fellow developers...
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
after two weeks of programming fun.
How can i contribute a german
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Christoph Haas wrote:
Fellow developers...
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
after two weeks of programming fun.
How can i contribute a german translation? ;-)
Regards,
Florian
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 01:02:42AM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
* There are 14 pages and the navigation is truncated to 'Page: 1 2 3 ..
14 '. Could you (optionally) display links to all pages? Or alter
the number of results per page (increase, or make user configurable)?
I'll
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Hi Christoph,
Christoph Haas wrote:
I intend to make the application i18n-savvy. But that's currently
not the hightest priority on my todo list. As soon as the other
issues are sorted out I'll happily gettextify the application and
send you a
Christoph Haas wrote:
On Dienstag, 11. November 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
[...]
s.d.n/needed/sid/a
s.d.n/needed/etch/b
That would work for Etch - but not for Sid because it's a moving target. So
far I would just stick to the version number (not yet implemented).
Maybe one for testing would
Paul Wise wrote:
[...]
Version info would be useful for providing a list of packages with
outdated screenshots in any given dist (sid/etch). Also, I think
multiple screenshots per package are needed so that the
packages.d.o/sid/foo and packages.d.o/etch/foo pages can point to the
right
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Christoph Haas wrote:
How can i contribute a german translation? ;-)
I intend to make the application i18n-savvy. But that's currently not the
hightest priority on my todo list. As soon as the other issues are sorted
out I'll happily gettextify the application and send
Quoting Christoph Haas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
I intend to make the application i18n-savvy. But that's currently not the
hightest priority on my todo list. As soon as the other issues are sorted
out I'll happily gettextify the application and send you a file to
translate. Thanks for the
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
[...]
Have fun and let me know what you think.
Please do not reduce images in size. The screenshots of, for example, dillo
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Guus Sliepen wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
[...]
Have fun and let me know what you think.
Please do not reduce
Fellow developers...
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
after two weeks of programming fun.
It is an effort to help users get an idea what a certain application does
and how it looks like by offering screenshots
On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 15:29 +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Guus Sliepen wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
[...]
Have
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
First of all thanks a lot for the effort, the result is already really
cool and in perspective it is amazingly useful!
Have fun
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- You state that screenshot will be released under the same term of
the screenshot-ed package, why so? It seems to me rather arbitrary
and makes impossible to bundle all screenshot together on a media
and
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:16:06PM +0100, Guus Sliepen wrote:
Please do not reduce images in size. The screenshots of, for example, dillo
and
amiwm are horrible. If you have a guideline of having a maximum size of
800x600 pixels, just give an error when someone uploads a screenshot that is
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
- You state that screenshot will be released under the same term of
the screenshot-ed package, why so? It seems to me rather arbitrary
and makes impossible to
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
2008/11/10 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I can even offer JSON, SOAP, XML, whatever if needed. Some URL that
can be used in an IMG/SRC tag should probably be sufficient for
packages.d.o. I'll soon document the URL schema so everybody can
2008/11/10 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So are we safe as long as we don't include non-free packages and claim that
the screenshots are licensed under the terms of the application itself?
Yes, in my opinion that should be enough.
Miry
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2008/11/10 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I can even offer JSON, SOAP, XML, whatever if needed. Some URL that can be
used in an IMG/SRC tag should probably be sufficient for packages.d.o.
I'll soon document the URL schema so everybody can use it. Just let me
know what information you need
2008/11/10 Miriam Ruiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/11/10 Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I can even offer JSON, SOAP, XML, whatever if needed. Some URL that can be
used in an IMG/SRC tag should probably be sufficient for packages.d.o.
I'll soon document the URL schema so everybody can use it.
On Montag, 10. November 2008, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
First of all thanks a lot for the effort, the result is already really
Hi Christoph,
many thanks for this effort - I admit I started dreaming of such a thing
in the beginning of this year - it does not happen that often that dreams
become true that fast. ;-)
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, Christoph Haas wrote:
Thanks to the framework used (Pylons) I can fully control
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:46:10PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
Thanks. I love positive feedback. Developers often tend to point out
errors way more than enjoying what's already there. :)
My pleasure :)
Suggestion: just name a license and stick to it.
Given the comment from pabs (which
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
Have fun and let me know what you think.
Thank you for this; it looks very nice!
Some quick comments:
* don't list packages with only pending screenshots in the list of
screenshots. There's a few packages at the moment listed
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:02:24AM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
IMO the BTS has taught us that SOAP is the good way to go, on top of
that we can have whatever programming language API we need.
I'd agree that it's tought us the value of *an* API, but I (at least)
have yet to love SOAP.
Noah Slater wrote:
[...]
I do think the page lengths, or result count per page, could be increased.
+1
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On Montag, 10. November 2008, Jon Dowland wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 03:05:32PM +0100, Christoph Haas wrote:
Have fun and let me know what you think.
Thank you for this; it looks very nice!
Some quick comments:
* don't list packages with only pending screenshots in the list of
Christoph Haas wrote:
Fellow developers...
it took a little longer than I expected but I finally launched
http://screenshots.debian.net
Great! thanks for your great job
after two weeks of programming fun.
[...]
Please take a look at the site, consider uploading screenshots of your
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:08 AM, Raphael Geissert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* When browsing the packages list it would be great if you could also provide
links to browse packages by name (e.g. A, B, C, etc, you get what I mean).
* Have you considered storing more information together with the
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Christoph Haas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So are we safe as long as we don't include non-free packages and claim that
the screenshots are licensed under the terms of the application itself?
IANAL and find that gibberish from your quoted posting pretty hard to
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 00:20 +0900, Paul Wise wrote:
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
- You state that screenshot will be released under the same term of
the screenshot-ed package, why so? It seems to me rather arbitrary
and makes impossible
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