Package: comix Version: 3.1.3-1 Severity: wishlist
While looking at old comic scans, I sometimes page back and forth between 'comix' and GCD**'s web site to find out who did what. (**http://www.comics.org/index.lasso) It'd be neat if 'comix' could automate that somewhat, the way 'amarok' does for music files, (tries to find online lyrics, band info, etc.); 'comix' might proceed like so: 1) Attempt to use the filename or info to determine which issue to look up. (Not always obvious.) 2) For an ambiguous issue or title, query the user as to those parts that seem vague. 3) Store this info locally and thereafter associate it with the archive's filename or checksum. Surely it'd be ideal if comics archives had some standard machine readable format for credits data, then one wouldn't need to look stuff up on a web site -- but it's impossible without accurate data, and attributing uncredited comics is very much a work in progress. Illustration: suppose a rare 1940s title 'Foobar comics', (public domain for the sake of example), is scanned as a 20 meg '.cbr' and put on the net in 2004, by Smith who doesn't know who did what. Smith lacks bandwidth, so he publishes his scan via P2P networks. In 2005, some helpful comics scholars examine the rare 'Foobar comics' via the Smith scan; they correctly identify some of the cartoonists and update its GCD entry. In 2006 Smith decides to put out a second edition of his scan, the only new part of which is the 2005 GCD data. New readers prefer Smith's 2nd 2006 edition, but readers who have the 2004 edition would hate to DL another 20 meg archive for 1K of of new text data. Looking up credits data on a central server like GCD is far more efficient. Moreso if in 2015, scholars finally figured out who wrote 'Foobar', which would obsolete the incomplete credits of Smith's 2nd edition. (BTW, 'comix' is a useful program!) Hope this helps... -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Kernel: Linux 2.6.16-2-686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) (ignored: LC_ALL set to C) Versions of packages comix depends on: ii gconf2 2.14.0-1 GNOME configuration database syste ii python 2.3.5-11 An interactive high-level object-o ii python-gtk2 2.8.2-3 Python bindings for the GTK+ widge ii python-imaging 1.1.5-10 Python Imaging Library comix recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
