[CREATE] Create resources stuff

Boudewijn Rempt boud at valdyas.org
Tue Jun 21 04:31:31 PDT 2011


On Tuesday 21 June 2011 Jun, Cyrille Berger Skott wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Friday 17 June 2011, Sven Langkamp wrote:
> > recently we have added Get Hot New Stuff support for all kinds of resources
> > in Krita (http://libregraphicsworld.org/news.php?readmore=808). What I
> > would really like to have is a common GHNS site for all the free graphics
> > applications, so that e.g. Gimp and Krita users can share resources.
> > Currently we use OpenDesktop.org for the resources while there is also
> > gimpstuff.org for Gimp resources. We should have a common site for it.
> Well gimpstuff is part of opendesktop... OpenDesktop uses different domain name 
> to present different category of files that are focused on a specific application 
> (like gimpstuff) or group of applications (like kde-files).
> 
> As you can see, those two links show the same files:
> http://kde-files.org/index.php?xcontentmode=630
> http://opentemplate.org/index.php?xcontentmode=630
> 
> You would need to talk with opendesktop admin to make sure that the 
> brushes/pattern/gradient for krita on kde-files and for gimp on gimpstuff are 
> the same.
> 
> Then it does not matter where the user upload the brushes/patterns/... if they 
> use krita, they will probably go to kde-files, if they use gimp they will go to 
> gimpstuff, and in the end, the brushes will be available by both community, 
> even if they don't know about it.

That's kind of nifty... But from a social point of view, I think it would rock if both communities got acquainted through sharing resources :-).

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Boudewijn Rempt
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