www.opkg.org - Relaunch!

Jan Henkins jan at henkins.za.net
Sun Dec 28 03:08:20 CET 2008


Hello Tobias,

Thanks for all the hard work! ;-D

I second the need for accommodating smaller screen sizes, best try and 
use an auto-resizing type theme like in use on the OpenMoko WIKI.

Francesco de Virgilio wrote:
> Woow!
> Probably the greatest Christmas gift for this year!
>
> Tobias Kündig ha scritto:
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>> Dear Community,
>>
>> After hours of coding I can present you my little christmas gift for 
>> Openmoko and the whole community: The relaunch of www.opkg.org.
>> The whole site was recoded. There is a new system and a shiny new design.
>>
>> These are the changes I made:
>>
>>
>> New Design
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> The old design wasn't very pretty. The new one is more professional and 
>> hopefully user friendlier than the old one.
>>
>> The best results you'll get on a resolution of 1280x1024 pixels. I'm 
>> sure there are some displaying bugs in other browsers than firefox or in 
>> other resolutions. If you find one, please drop me a line and I'll fix 
>> it ASAP.
>>
>> There are also some small goodies. For example all new packages since 
>> your last visit are highlighted in the overview.
>>
>> One note: Please remember that I don't speak English as first language. 
>> So I'm sure there are a lot of grammatically mistakes in the text. 
>> Please let me know that, so I can correct them.
>>
>>
>> Improved member area
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> If you are logged in, the member area are now appears on the homepage. 
>> You'll find a list of all your packages with useful links like «Edit» or 
>> «Restore older version». By the way, you now can delete your packages 
>> yourself.
>>
>>
>> The API remains the same
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> The API wasn't changed at all. So if you began to write an application 
>> using it, you don't have to change anything. It simply was ported to the 
>> new system - but the results it gives you, are the same than the old one.
>>
>>
>> What you should change
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> The URLs for the RSS-Feeds have changed. So please update the URL in 
>> your RSS-Reader. Furthermore I'm sure that not all updates since last 
>> Friday are correctly imported into the database. So please check the 
>> packages you updated since last Friday.
>>
>>
>> What's next?
>> -------------------------------
>>
>> There are some features I'd like to include in the future. First of all 
>> there's a repository I'd like to create. And maybe I'll include a 
>> feature where you can give the visitor information about the 
>> compatibility of your package. So you can say, yes, it works on 
>> OM2008.12 but not on FSO, for example.
>> Maybe I'll have to change the category names too because there is some 
>> conversation on the mailing list about it. We'll see...
>> Of course I'd like to implement your ideas as well. So please write me 
>> if you have a revolutionary idea.
>>
>>
>> Please let me know <http://www.opkg.org/contact.html> what you think of 
>> the new site.
>>
>> I wish you all a merry Christmas,
>> Tobias
>>
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-- 
Regards,
Jan Henkins





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