[Clipart] clipart Digest, Vol 42, Issue 1

[Jon Phillips]

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 07:44 -0700, John Olsen wrote:
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> > Message: 3
> > Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 20:26:49 -0700
> > From: Jon Phillips <jon at rejon.org>
> > Subject: Re: [Clipart] help for the project (at least next release)
> > To: Fernando Guerin <laburatory at yahoo.com>
> > Cc: clipart Grupo <clipart at lists.freedesktop.org>
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> I agree with Jon that online searching and use of the archive is  
> probably more likely in the future.  Pointing at resources on the web  
> rather than downloading them all seems like the trend.  Maybe it is  
> the visualist in me, but for a library of any art I think a browser  
> with thumbnails in the most important feature.  It is currently quite  
> tedious to drill down to each piece of art then back up again.  Even  
> a next and previous button might help here.  But clearly being able  
> to see the collection displayed as a gallery would be a huge  
> improvement.

Yes, import and thumbnails...totally agree! I think we should put some
text up on the packages page to explain why no packages since 2005. What
do you think?

> And even though the classic method for organizing files is  folder  
> and sub-folder, it seems the tagging system is far more dynamic and  
> let's everyone custom tailor their results.
> 
> BTW, I have the cleanup under 100 items now, but some of them are not  
> fixable by me.  I think they were made with the beta of Inkscape or  
> something as I can find no way to clean them up without breaking them.

You are great! This is great to know!

Cheers!

Jon

> 
> > Interesting idea. All of the clip art is public domain, so, we could
> > just package away without authors names...this is an interesting idea,
> > to only release packages of the newest, possibly monthly or quarterly,
> > but this does not fit how packages work on package management systems,
> > where the new version replaces the old...in the end, we have to  
> > face tha
> > the old way of accessing packages doesn't scale super well,  
> > compared to
> > software...anyway, so much is moving to the web anyway, so we have to
> > consider how people will use the service...I'm putting my money that
> > ppl. will just come to the site and/or use a service in apps like
> > Inkscape, etc, to get the clip art rather needing a huge
> > package...anyway, still like idea of providing ;)
> >
> >> And for the last is the searching tool. This is more a request,  
> >> but because of the huge
> >> quantity of graphics its really necessary. What I am thinking of  
> >> is something like the
> >> tagsearch that is online. There should be at least a library  
> >> (software) with some methods
> >> to help in this matter. I would use all the tags to create some  
> >> sort of index/database. I
> >> would add something thats its not now online (could be done) and  
> >> is creating types of
> >> tags. Like this:
> >> +archive: .svg .jpeg .png ...
> >> +content: animals, sports, people, man ...
> >> +type: realistic, cartoon, ...
> >> +rating: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, >1 >2 >3 >4
> >> And thinking more into the future (if this is implemented), the  
> >> user could set his own
> >> tags and types of tags.
> >>
> >> Hope to be of some help, Fernando.
> >
> > Cool, these are all great ideas Fernando...it would be great for  
> > you to
> > flesh them out more on our wiki, discuss here and even better, help
> > implement some of these ideas...we have tons of ideas, but are low on
> > committers right now, so just need simple steps towards a  
> > release...so,
> > if you can solve some of these problems with bite-sized solutions and
> > mark them off our roadmap towards 0.19, then please do so....
> >
> > Keep up the discussion and lets get 0.19 out!
> >
> > Jon
> >
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