[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17

[John Olsen]

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I think the only really important problems right now are related to  
user interface.

1. broken links all over the place
2. no thumbnails - no user-friendly display of the clipart.  Ideally  
the display could be much move visual and far less wordy than the  
current layout.  In any search the items returned do not show a  
thumbnail (even if there is a PNG currently).  You currently get an  
entry display that is about 1" x 4-5", depending on your browser,  
that is full of words but no image.  You can use the same square  
inches to display a 2"x 2" thumbnail that if you clicked on it would  
take you to the file's page.  People are here looking for image - not  
who did it, when it was uploaded, what it's other tags are.  That's  
all secondary and needs to be off the gallery or preview display.

The killer on this seems to be the architecture tied to ccHost which  
is designed for a non-visual library (music) when we need a layout  
that is strongly visual.  I don't know how much ccHost can be  
monkeyed with to display things better.

To me, solving these two coding issues would make the site completely  
usable.  It is all it NEEDS.  The rest is optional and additional  
features that might never need to be implemented.  Sadly, I can only  
off the skills I have - which is not coding.

Just my 2 cents,

John Olsen





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> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 07:33:46 -0600
> From: Alan <alan at ccnsweb.com>
> Subject: Re: [Clipart] [Open Clip Art Library] frustration
> Cc: clipart at lists.freedesktop.org
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> OpenClipart is brilliant. What do we need to do to get it working as
> well as we want it working?