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Task - Adding Screenshots to themes

VeryMisunderstood - December 30, 2007 - 17:18

I'm adding this thread to aid in my work with the theme screenshots.
With the changes that have taken place in CVS, theme screenshots that were linked to in CVS were broken.
All image tags have been removed and all theme project pages have been turned back to filtered HTML.

This thread will be used for me to keep track of which themes I've added screenshots to. I will be taking the time to upload images and then tag them properly in the image area & add a link from the image back to the project page so users can obtain the theme.

Users will be the ability to browse the screenshots of themes in the image galleries area here: http://drupal.org/image/tid/39

Theme project pages skipped for the moment

* Themes are gone through in the order of CVS checkout (Drupal 5.x versions first) - will back track and fill in missing themes

Theme project pages completed:

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

H

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I

K

L

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Thanks for doing this

jwolf - December 30, 2007 - 21:15

Thanks for doing this, Kenn. I know that this is tedious work and it's much appreciated.

If you want/need some help, I'd be willing to split the work with you.

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VeryMisunderstood - December 30, 2007 - 21:24

hiya J,

No problem, anything I can do to help the community move forward and have a better experience here at drupal.org. Especially new users just getting their feet wet.

Anyone willing to chip in can pick a letter. right now I'm finishing up A

here's the proces I'm using

1) taking a 640x480 screenshot in png format. These methods are to provide consistency.

2) adding it on the project page using the new attach image field

3) heading over to the image gallery and editing the image node to:
a) tag the image properly with where the screenshot should be (Themes) and the versions the theme supports.
b) add to the body of the image, a link back to the project page in the form of (Visit the <a href="http://drupal.org/project/themename">Theme name Project Page</a> to learn more about and download this theme.) This is done to provide a link back to the project from the image gallery.
c) copying the address of the image.

4) reediting the project page, adding the copied image node address to the screenshots field of the project page

5) cleaning up the project description if necessary

It is tedious, but in the end I will feel better knowing I contributed more toward the community beyond that of the forum support I provide.

There is much to be done in the way of drupal.org. I know many/all of the developers/maintainers are busy getting ready for D6. I hope to lead the community here by example, and in this case without sarcasm : )

Don't break your back though, I'm not. I'm attacking it one letter at a time in between meals : )

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Totally OT but...

Michelle - December 30, 2007 - 22:32

It is tedious, but in the end I will feel better knowing I contributed more toward the community beyond that of the forum support I provide.

...I just want to mention that your forum support is awesome. :)

Thanks again for doing this!

Michelle

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VeryMisunderstood - December 30, 2007 - 22:47

no applause, just throw M&M's : )

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I appreciate that you do

Gerhard Killesreiter - December 31, 2007 - 00:39

I appreciate that you do this, but at least the switching of the input format could be done through a rather simple SQL command and thus save you a lot of time. I've executed that command several hours ago and thus all themes are now back to the "filtered html" input format.

WRT the screenshots: I am not sure it makes sense for somebody else to add them. If you add the screenshot, then only you will be able to edit it later. I suggest to wait for the theme authors to add their screenshots themselves. Michelke has mailed them yesterday and I hope they'll react soon.

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VeryMisunderstood - December 31, 2007 - 00:48

: /

As somene in the site maintainer role, when I edit a project page, then I take over that page ? I didn't know that. The authorship still shows the original project author.

In discusisons with Michelle about this, she didn't state that this would happen either.

UGH!

What do I do know about the fact that I've already done what I've done ?

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You don't take over the

merlinofchaos - December 31, 2007 - 00:51

You don't take over the page. however, if you change the page to an input format that the project owner does not have access to, then the project owner can no longer edit the project.

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VeryMisunderstood - December 31, 2007 - 00:52

All theme project pages were set to FILTERED HTML. Especially now that the script Gerhard speaks of was run. I was not altering the input format setting merely adding the screenshots back that were broken where they referred to the screenshot in CVS, or referred to an img tag that was killed when the script was run.

I will not continue.

Sorry : (

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I think you're fine

Michelle - December 31, 2007 - 01:30

I think there's just some confusion going on. If you are leaving the input formats at filtered HTML and the node author of the image being created is the theme author, not you, it should be fine. If you want to be sure, ask one of the theme maintainers that doesn't have any special role to try editing it.

Michelle

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VeryMisunderstood - December 31, 2007 - 01:33

At this point, I'll give maintainers time to make the changes themselves.

If in a few weeks if they haven't added screenshots maybe I'll retake on this task as themes distribution without a visual aid would seem to be a problem.

I was just trying to be proactive rather then reactive.

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Ok

Michelle - December 31, 2007 - 02:53

That sounds reasonable but don't feel bad. You're doing a good thing here. :)

Michelle

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I was assuming that if you

Gerhard Killesreiter - December 31, 2007 - 09:18

I was assuming that if you attached an image to a project that you would own the newly created image (and not the project owner who then could not edit it later). However, I looked at the code and tested it and the result is that the image is created with the project owner as author.

So this makes more sense now.

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VeryMisunderstood - December 31, 2007 - 17:41

no problem Gerhard,

If maintainers don't pick the ball over the next 2 weeks and add their screenshots and if you'd like me to do it let me know. I'd be happy to take this back up.

add1sun gave me the link to a GHOP task, whereby the task taker already supplied the screenshots of each theme. That would certainly make this task go a little faster.

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