[Feedback] Silly Question, but do you still need art help?

[Leo Franchi]

On Wednesday 23 January 2008 10:33:13 am Rich wrote:
> On 2008.01.23. 17:17, Leo Franchi wrote:
> ...
>
> > Yes, we do still need artwork/artists. I cannot speak for all the devs,
> > but I need artists who can design SVGs of applets (and potentially
> > backgrounds).
> >
> > If you are interested in helping out, awesome! You can take a look here:
> > http://rokymotion.pwsp.net/wiki/Artwork_Needed_For_Amarok_2.0
>
> looking at this page, i had few questions.
> for example, "Database Info" part has a bunch of fields. i suppose that
> once amarok2 is out, these fields (not their location, but what fields
> are available) will be pretty fixed for a while - as otherwise most
> changes would break themes, right ?

i wrote up that blurb in a few minutes to get my thoughts out, so it is not 
final.

if someone is actually interested in doing it they can come talk to me on IRC 
and we can work out the exact details---i dont know what the artist might 
have planned.

> if so, it seems quite important to get available fields right, which
> probably isn't that easy :)
> will it be possible (and would that make sense) to have a larger set of
> available fields where a theme could choose to display only a subset of
> those ? that would also allow much easier adding of new fields without
> breaking existing themes.

yes, this is very possible. an applet can just choose what data it wants from 
the dataengines, it will only get a specific subset.

>
> > leo



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