[ghns] Epidermis uses GHNS!

[Josef Spillner]

Hello David,

On Суббота 18 апреля 2009 16:10:35 David D Lowe wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I thought you'd be pleased to know the Epidermis uses GHNS for its online
> repository of pigments.

this is awesome news! I've had a look on the screenshots and it looks like a 
good use case for GHNS. Will there be an uploader too so that people can grow 
the content available online?
Do you use a framework on the server side or only static scripts? I suppose 
it's the latter.

I'll add a section on Epidermis to the GHNS webpages.

> Epidermis theme manager is an open source GTK application for managing and
> automatically downloading and installing themes of various types, in order
> to transform the look of your Ubuntu desktop. It's the only GTK app I know
> of that uses GHNS, but I don't think KDE people will mind.

Of course not. The only thing to mind here is that it is specific to Ubuntu, as 
I'm writing this on a Debian laptop :-)

> I was wondering if there was an easy way to integrate GHNS with Drupal, as
> this is the CMS we're using at the moment for the project's website.
> http://epidermis.tuxfamily.org . It would be nifty if users could upload
> new pigments to the GHNS repository through a web interface.

This should be possible given that Drupal is written in PHP. You can check out 
the "Cocodrilo web interface" from:
	svn://svn.berlios.de/svnroot/repos/ghns/trunk/cocodrilo

It's the software that is used on newstuff.kde.org. There's a mode for parsing 
GHNS feeds, even remote ones, and displaying the results. The web interface 
was never really finished but then again the basics are there and you'll 
probably adapt it to your own needs anyway. Give it a try :)
To achieve real integration with Drupal, I guess that a Drupal extension 
module could be written for it, but I've never used this CMS much so take it 
as an uneducated guess from my side.

Josef