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Request for theme Authors
Llorean:
The theme site is to make it easier for people to download and immediately use themes. Half the people using the site will never visit it directly, and the theme will never really reside on their computer.
A psd file would be completely useless.
If you want to have "resources for creating themes" available somewhere to share with people, setting up a separate location for this might make sense, but it's not what the actual theme site is about.
The "theme" is the part that can actually be used on the player, and that's what's to be available through the theme site.
rasher:
--- Quote from: BdN3504 on March 27, 2009, 01:56:30 PM ---And rightly so. This is not in any way part of the theme
--- Quote from: rasher on March 27, 2009, 01:17:32 PM ---And rightly so. This is not in any way part of the theme
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because the new theme site did not accept my previous zip file containing multiple themes
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This is also by design - not just because I'm lazy.
One download = one theme. If the user wants colour variations, he can download those as he chooses.
BdN3504:
I never read about the purpose of the new theme site, so i think it's good we discuss it here. i understood that the new theme site shall replace the old wps gallery.
--- Quote from: Llorean on March 27, 2009, 02:10:06 PM ---The "theme" is the part that can actually be used on the player, and that's what's to be available through the theme site.
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Simply put: you want to dumb it down so you can reach a bigger audience? That's fine, but then i think the gallery must stay online.
The gallery is a place where it's easy to upload the sources to a theme, uploading multiple themes contained in one zip isn't a hassle either. But most importantly, it is no problem to update themes in the gallery. How do we update themes on the new site?
--- Quote from: rasher on March 27, 2009, 02:24:14 PM ---This is also by design - not just because I'm lazy.
One download = one theme. If the user wants colour variations, he can download those as he chooses.
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I never suggested this had anything to do with laziness. I just question the "one theme At a a time" approach. I think it would be best to have two options for theme creators:
* they could choose to upload one theme at a time.
* Or they could choose to upload a theme collection. this collection would have to have
* a screenshot for each theme inside
* separated zips
* and one zip which contains all of them
* this is exactly what i did with my rhombic themeThe user would then see the wps pack in the themes list in rbutil which he could either expand or download as a whole.
Llorean:
I'm not sure why the gallery "must" stay online. Having themes in multiple locations is just going to make it *harder* for people to find usable themes.
A separate location that is only theme sources (psd files, etc) makes sense, but theme creation data shouldn't be intermixed with themes anyway.
As for theme collections - if you have multiple versions of a theme, why not just upload each of them? Why does it need to be a "collection"?
BdN3504:
I think it's more convenient for the user to have theme collections. if he/she likes the basic design of the theme, why obligate him to download each variation of this theme separately?
PS: Why do i have to re-verify my e-mail anytime i upload a theme? can't this info be stored somewhere? it's really annoying.
As regarding why the gallery must stay online you did not answer my question: how are themes being updated on the new site? will rasher (or another theme site admin for that matter) have to update each theme, when the wps syntax is changed himself?
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