[Clipart] Transitioning to theautomatic/dynamic screenshotsgallery

[Jon Phillips]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nicu Buculei" <nicu at apsro.com>
To: "clipart-list" <clipart at freedesktop.org>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 12:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Clipart] Transitioning to theautomatic/dynamic 
screenshotsgallery


> Nathan Eady wrote:
>> Nicu Buculei wrote:
>>
>>> i think we should not start collecting junk on the screenshots page and 
>>> keep a limited number of pictures, otherwise the page will be too big
>>
>>
>> Ah, yes, too many could get to be a problem.
>>
>> It shouldn't be hard to make it suppress all but the newest N shots,
>> unless the user clicks a link ("See Older Screenshots" or something).
>>
>> About how many screenshots do you think it should show at once?
>

10 (but make it so that the increment is in the GET query string, so a user 
could change if they wanted, or display all)

> just a thought: how hard is to make the list display on multiple pages if 
> we have a large number of screenshots?
>
> or if we display only one page, put the images in a random order, to 
> change every time what is on top?

On the front page the screenshots are already random, so maybe for this, it 
is better to have a chronological list of the submitted.

Jon

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