Lots of categories could fit under âImagesâ⌠Dare I say all the categories? Iâm back to the âGalleryâ idea, something that implies that youâre somewhat finished and want to share, maybe with a subs of âplayrawâ, âcritiqueâ, and âshow and tellâ?
I do like the idea of the " Show-and-tell" in that it should encourage people to share their techniques instead of just posting images.
âSamplesâ doesnât speak to me, I donât understand what would go into it. âGalleryâ or âShowcaseâ or âPhotos - Show and Tellâ speaks more clearly.
If you want to cut down on the number of main categories, Iâd put Challenges as a sub-category or tag of âPhotos - Show and Tellâ.
I think what Iâd like to see is a section for software downloads that has been developed either as testing or stable, which doesnât have anywhere else to go.
Iâm thinking about the likes of @Carmelo_DrRawâs excellent GIMP appimage. The way it is atm, we have to scroll further down the front page to find it, and goes further down the more people post. But by having these in a separate downloadable section, makes it far easier to locate and browse to.
I guess the only caviet would be that items placed there, for the ease of community members, would be that they would have to be a single-file appimage, snap, deb, rpm, exe, etc⌠or a link pointing to a ppa or compiling page.
Having such a section may also encourage other developers to show off their work, by creating an appimage, snap and posting it, who may want a much greater exposure (pun not intended) to those of us who get lost in complilng, and thus wonât touch anything that requires such.
I agree that grouping the known download links for installable packages that are verified by the community would be of great help.
As for what concerns the gimp appimage, the current solution is only temporary, to allow some initial testing. I think it is now time to give it a more official place⌠why not here?
Among the packages that would be worth including in the download links category, I would propose:
I would opt for a page in this case. All links in one place, and only those pointing to the best and/or most up-to-date versions of the various programs.
For users who want to get exactly what they need in less than 5 minutes
I started drafting a âSoftware Downloads Linksâ page:
Welcome
This post is meant to house links to download software built by the community that does not have a proper distribution place (⌠or weâll become the distribution place?). You should have a look at our software page for a large list of software and links to their home pages.
Some of the provided or linked packages provide software in alpha or beta state and are hosted here for the testerâs convenience. If you are uncertain which version to install, please check the softwareâs original home page or feel free to ask in the forum.
What overlap should there be with our software page and why? We donât want to duplicate links. Should we expand the information available in the software page? maybe using something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/metalsmith-virtual-pages and then storing the data in a json file.
Is there a fairly easy way we can provide a mirror for some of this software?
I would issue a warning in the prologue: âSome of the provided or linked packages provide software in aplha or beta state and are hosted here for the testerâs convenience. If you are uncertain which version to install, please check the softwareâs original home page or feel free to ask on discuss.pixls.us.â
Maybe each of the links could be accompanied by a little text explaining the status and contents of the package.
The software page might be better pointing to the âofficialâ pages of the various projects. If we have local builds that we want to make people aware of, we could add some text to each entry with links into the appropriate post here on discuss (your sticky post).
If we really want another page to cover these special builds, @paperdigits and I can look into auto-generating a semi-dynamic page on the main site that can pull itâs content from a post here on discuss. (Like pull the page data from the first post in a topic that is a wiki possibly).
Easy? Possibly. Iâll have a look at the host for the main site at the moment to see if I can get access created easily for folks. Then I can just give access to the project authors and let them upload as needed. Iâll have a look today and test this with @paperdigits or @Carmelo_DrRaw.
Iâm in the process of figuring out either a) how to add a user + ssh access to someone on my shared hosting plan, or b) falling back to getting you an acct on the discuss server with a temporary upload dir that Iâll rsync back to the webhost with. Still looking!
I have now a gimp appimage which seems to be reasonably good enough to be announced to a wider audience.
Do you think we can now host the package here on pixls.us and put a direct link on the new page created by @paperdigits?
I will then also add some short installation instructionsâŚ
For the moment we only have a link to the forum thread, and from there to the packages on dropbox⌠very difficult to follwlow. What about hosting the package directly on pixls.us?
Oh? You didnât upload the file directly to pixls.us? You should be able to. I can then update @paperdigits post with a link (and we should probably consider a blog post on this too).