[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 43, Issue 17

[Jon Phillips]

On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 13:46 +0000, Frederik Elwert wrote:
> Hey John,
> 
> Am Donnerstag, den 25.10.2007, 06:13 -0700 schrieb John Olsen:
> > Excuse my non-geekness, but where would I install this UserScript?   
> 
> If you use Opera, you can put it in any folder and specify that in the
> JavaScript preferences.
> 
> For Firefox, you need the Greasemonkey extension. Once that is
> installed, it recognizes UserScripts (with the user.js-extension) and
> asks you to install it. Pretty simple.
> 
> I'll see if I can modify the script to drop the jquery dependency, it
> was merely a coding aid and might disturb some other websites. So you
> might want to activate Greasemonkey for the moment only while you're on
> openclipart.org via the mokey icon in the lower right corner.
> 
> > Sadly, I am very GUI dependent and get lost easily when it comes to  
> > code.  I'm a designer, I like pretty pictures.  I assume you  
> > understand that this is why it is not a good solution long-term.   
> > Requiring visitors to the site to install code is not user friendly,  
> > but maybe some clever soul could automate the process.
> 
> Of course this is not an ideal situation. But it fills the gap until
> server-side solutions are available.
> 
> And of course it would be possible to include the scripts in the website
> itself instead of requiring the users to install them. But this would
> somehow "force" people to use them, including the larger site load. But
> maybe one could offer the scripts somewhere on the site once they are a
> bit tested and improved. Installing them is quite easy with
> greasemonkey.
> 
> For the "real" solution: Is there a roadmap somewhere regarding
> thumbnails? What are the main problems at the moment? I don't have the
> time to get into ccHost hacking, but once the required steps are written
> down I think it might be easier to find someone to implement them.
> 
> Cheers,
> Frederik

Here is the place to stand our ground and hack. Sign up for tasks is and
doing is the most effective use of time at this point:

http://openclipart.org/wiki/Roadmap

I'm always in irc #openclipart on irc.freenode.net along with RyanLerch,
AndyFitz, Bovinity and ciabot, so please jump in and help out :) I/we
can give pointers to where to help fix things...

Jon

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