Hi, Christoph Haas wrote: > - Propose a new optional debian/control field "X-Screenshot:" pointing to > an URL serving an image file (PNG, JPG) I don't think this is needed and could significantly bloat Packages.gz > - Create a new tree on hg.debian.org to host screenshots. > - Alternatively provide a web service that hosts screenshots so that > packages can point to it (e.g. http://screenshots.debian.net/PACKAGE). > The service should also scale down the pictures to a reasonable > size suitable for thumbnail display (max 150x150). > (I can program that if needed. The only problem is probably > authenticating the maintainer. Maybe a simple email interface > checking PGP signatures will do. Needs further brainstorming.) > - Change packages.debian.org to show the thumbnail from the > package's control file. I will work on a patch if desired. > - Add this feature to package managers (synaptic, kpackage, ...). > I don't know enough about GUI programming yet that I could possibly > help here. Instead of all that, why not creating this infrastructure under a debian.net (like screenshots.debian.net) domain and when it's ready asking for it to be linked from the PTS, for instance? Package managers could - after the solution is sufficiently stable - fetch from it when browsing packages. You could adopt a standard url syntax for referring to specific packages (like screenshots.d.n/<bin-package-name>) and create a way for maintainers to upload screenshots to it (via email, as you suggested, perhaps). This way we don't have to change anything in our infrastructure and still have a semi-official place to put this sort of information. Cheers -- Leo "costela" Antunes [insert a witty retort here]
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