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Theme size; bandwidth concerns? Thread last updated on 2005-12-21 00:38:07

Posted by member 12025 on 2005-12-19 05:39:40

Let's say I released a theme (I hope to in the coming months :)), and it is around 5-6MB zipped (7z is much better with the binaries, but...). Would this be a serious concern for this site?

Posted by member 248213 on 2005-12-19 06:13:39 link

:o thats quite big... whats in it? 12 wallpapers? feature length mp3 intro's?

or is it some of your weird ass image manipulating apps?

5-6 is quite big, and if it were anyone else (maybe a few other themers too) I wouldnt bother :)

Posted by member 12025 on 2005-12-19 07:48:32 link

Binaries, man, binaries. Otherwise, it'd be around 350k unzipped, including current images (24-bit PNGs, a few with alpha channels). AFAIK, I think I have to include a lot of text and images. When I tried to ask, I was mostly just told that the license was meant to be as easy to read as possible (some parts were obvious, but some not so).

For ad-supported sites, I'd not worry (is xcal unbanned yet?), but this place is both free and not ad-supported, and I don't know if the hosting is costing anything based on bandwidth, or if such bandwidth is a concern. If so, I could include instructions on installing IM, but that would seriously cut down on potential downloads (the size would already kill most anybody using 56k).

Posted by member 1 on 2005-12-19 12:33:21 link

Nope...no concerns on size really. You just have 10 minutes to get it uploaded though. Most people can't get something that size uploaded in the allotted time though. Best bet would be to configure NLM to hit up a webpage you own and snag the binary package that way.

Posted by member 12025 on 2005-12-19 20:55:49 link

OK. Assuming I can upload around max speed, or near, it shouldn't be a problem (about 20 seconds per MB at 50-60KB/s).

Posted by member 148416 on 2005-12-20 07:03:49 link

/me looks forward to seeing IM in action so I can figure out how to use it ;)

Posted by member 12025 on 2005-12-20 10:02:14 link

If you want to see it working, that I can handle before I even have this prototype ready to go (it may take me to near New Year's to get a buggy one).

The IM-specific stuff is very modular and functional (I wanted it easy to taylor to exactly the manipulations at hand).

Done. Hopefully it's not too tied in to my stuff to be broken as posted :).

Posted by member 212670 on 2005-12-20 13:51:02 link

(is xcal unbanned yet?)

Haha subliminal message? Ya, I'm unbanned.

Posted by member 248213 on 2005-12-20 17:14:51 link

Cerbie: Maybe IM could work for Global Schemes? (I know it would be way complicated)
Is it "legal" to say, ship it with an installer?

Posted by member 12025 on 2005-12-21 00:38:07 link

Should be.

One thing that was clear was that it is kosher to take parts out of IM (very cool for trying to cut it down for a theme), but the license stuff must remain fully intact (I'm not sure about included docs and other readme-type stuff). Before it gets into anything like the installer, someone might want to try to pry more info from the maintainer over at the official forums.

Sweet, they got this updated, too:
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/license.php