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  • From: Jon Phillips <jon AT creativecommons.org>
  • To: Jaime Frutos Morales <acidborg AT gmail.com>
  • Cc: "cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org" <cc-devel AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [cc-devel] Creative Commons & Gnome desktop integration
  • Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 16:27:18 -0700

On Sun, 2006-07-30 at 00:48 +0200, Jaime Frutos Morales wrote:
> HI!
>
> I would like to start a wiki page with all the information about
> integrating CC and Gnome.

I see you have already created this page and other ones to support.


> Ideas for this page:
>
> - Gnome/GTK applications aware of CC licenses (Banshee after Summer of
> Code 2006, Firefox with Mozcc plugin, Epiphany with CC license viewer
> extension, Inkscape, etc)

Excellent to keep a list of these....

> - Gnome/GTK applications which could easily become aware of CC licenses.

Yes, and hopefully we can come up with a generic way these applications
can support CC licensing to make it easy for these applications.
Thoughts on this?

> I have submitted several enhancement bug reports for some Gnome
> applications
> about this:
>
> Epiphany: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=348050
> Nautilus: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349170
> Evince: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349173
> Totem: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349218
> Gnumeric: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349220
> EOG: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349222
> GIMP: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349224

Great...please keep the cc-devel list apprised on how these bugs do and
if there are good comments as to their support.

> - Gnome/GTK applications which could be created to integrate CC
> licenses into the desktop:
>
> I'm talking to Tracker's creator
> (http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/Tracker) to include a "License"
> field on the specification to look for CC licensed files within the
> desktop. If it is achieved, the next step is to aim Deskbar-applet
> integration or to create a new tool to do such searches.

I joined this list and pushed on this as well. I a bit skeptical to
whether this Tracker application has taken on life and if it is
positioned to become a solid FD.o standard. However, I would be great if
this is so.

> I'm thinking about creating an application to download CC music
> files from ccHost-based sites, but I don't know if there is any
> existing API to do this. Other approach could be to parse the feed
> looking for audio files, but this option would only download latest
> content.

Yes, please see the ccHost Sample Pool API which provides a mechanism
for querying for files on a ccHost installation and getting back an RSS
or ATOM feed of results: http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Sample_Pool_API

We also are adding a ccHost upload API which will extend the
capabilities more.

I would highly recommend for you to join the cc-devel and cctools-cchost
(on sf.net) lists to discuss these topics:
http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Mailing_Lists


> This wiki page could be linked from
> http://wiki.creativecommons.org/Desktop_Integration. Similar pages
> could be created for other OS desktops such as KDE, MacOS,etc.

Great, I'm glad you created these!

> What do you think about it? Is it interesting? Is it worth the effort?

Of course, these are very interesting ideas and it would be great for
you to ramp up your participation in the CC Developer Community and
hopefully others will help as well...

Please join the cc-devel mailing list and lets start conquering some
finite tasks to push this up hill....also, I would like to say that I
think it is better to try and create integration on the larger
freedesktop which would encompass Gnome, KDE, XFCE, and other
desktops...that is what I like about the Tracker project and other fd.o
standards....they try to consider that there is more than just GNOME.

Jon

--
Jon Phillips
jon AT creativecommons.org
cell: 510.499.0894

Software Engineer
Creative Commons
www.creativecommons.org





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