[Clipart] Navigation in the OCAL

[Jon Phillips]

On Fri, 2005-09-02 at 21:49 +0200, Petr Vaněk wrote:
> Hi all in the OCAL list
> 
> I've got some enthancement proposal for you. First I would like to show you 
> some background.
> 
> I'm working on the OCAL browser for Scribus (www.scribus.net), Open Source DTP 
> software. RFE:
> http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=1263
> 
> There is functional solution:
> http://henning.cco-ev.de/scribus/
> 
> And there is one big *BUT*. Current solution of the online OCAL browsing is 
> based on the HTML parsing. This is very slow and bug vulnerable (webdesigner 
> can change layout and we are screwed ;)) etc.
> I suggest to create auto-updated index file situated e.g. 
> http://openclipart.org/clipart/navigation.xml with current directory 
> structure of the OCAL server. I've created some example file for my old 
> clipart snapshot on my hdd. You can see it (250kB):
> http://www.yarpen.cz/ocal/navigation.xml
> 
> Fileinfo in this format allows using timestamps in local cache, nice GUI 
> presentation etc.
> 
> I know that something like this stuff will helps me (as developer) a lot.
> Any thoughs or suggestions?
> 

Cool...you should hop onto KOffice-devel mailing list which you can find
from kde.org. There is interest in having a generic KDE solution that
can be used like Greg's Clip Art Browser, which is a solo app, so that
scribus, karbon, etc, can get drag and drop of the Open Clip Art
Library's files.

It would be cool for you to consolidate into this solution so that all
users of KDE would get this benefit.

Also, the KOffice devs. have some ideas about different KDE constructs
to use, so please email them to see what they think.

You rule supremely!

Jon

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