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  h1 About this web site

  p
    ' This is a public repository of screenshots taken from applications contained
    ' in the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and its derivates like Ubuntu. It was
    ' created to help getting an impression of what a certain software will look
    ' like on your desktop before you install it. Everybody can take screenshots and
    ' upload them. Our admin team will just review your changes before they become
    ' publicly visible.

  h1 Who runs this site?

  p
    ' This site is operated by Christoph Haas.
    '
    ' Want to leave
    a href="mailto:email@christoph-haas.de" feedback?

  / p
  /   ' The virtual server is kindly provided by
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  a name='cookies'
  h2 Cookies and privacy

  p
    ' I am very concerned with privacy myself. So this site stores as
    ' little information about your stay as possible. That is:

  ul
    li
      em Cookies.
      ' Only when you upload a screenshot the website will send your
      ' browser a cookie. That allows you to manage your own uploads
      ' while the cookie is valid. You can still upload screenshots even
      ' if you reject the cookie.
    li
      em Log files.
      ' This web site is served by the nginx web server software.
      ' It creates one line for every request that you make which contains
      ' the current date and time, your IP address, the URL you requested,
      ' the user agent (browser) identification string and the referer URL
      ' (if you followed a link from another web site to get here).
      ' This information is only used to improve the performance of the
      ' web application by optimizing the code and fine-tuning caching.
      ' It is also used to count how often
    li
      em Privacy
      ' Under no circumstance will information about your person be
      ' collected or processed. I am happy to have you here as my guest.
    li
      em Motivation
      ' Do you wonder why this web site has been running for so many years
      ' obviously costing time and money? It's one of my pet projects and
      ' it is fun to develop and operate it. It was not conceived to make
      ' a profit from it. I'm just glad if you like the idea.

  h2 Which software packages are listed?

  p
    ' I import the package repositories from various Linux
    ' distributions once a day. However we already filter out packages that
    ' we think would not be able to have a meaningful screenshot.
    ' Like libraries or documentation or developer packages. So it may happen
    ' that you a package is not found on this web sites although it may be
    ' available in your favorite Linux distribution. Just let me know if you
    ' are missing packages.

  p
    ' The repositories that I am scanning frequently are:

    ul
      - @package_sources.each do |repo|
        li
          a href=repo[:url] =repo[:description]

  h2 Who is using this site?

  p
    ' Many users interested in Linux distributions and their applications visit
    ' this site either to look for specific pieces of software for certain use
    ' cases or just to see if there are any new applications they may have missed out on.
    ' And then there are several applications and web sites that use the screenshots
    ' from this site:
    ul
      li Ubuntu's Software Center
      li Benjamin Mesing's <em>Packagesearch</em> application
      li
        a href="https://packages.debian.org" packages.debian.org
      li
        a href="http://packages.ubuntu.com" packages.ubuntu.com

  h2 How you can use the screenshots

  p
    ' You can use the screenshots on your own website. Some useful URLs:

    ul
      li
        // TODO: Use actual virtual host name here instead of hardcoding screenshots.debian.net
        ' http://screenshots.debian.net/packages
        br
        ' (List of all packages with screenshots)
      li
        ' http://screenshots.debian.net/package/PACKAGENAME
        br
        ' (Page with details and screenshots for a certain package)
      li
        ' http://screenshots.debian.net/thumbnail/PACKAGENAME
        br
        ' (Returns a thumbnail (160x120 pixels or less) of a package's first found
        ' screenshot. If no screenshot was found then a dummy image will be returned
        ' along with the HTTP code 404.)
      li
        ' http://screenshots.debian.net/screenshot/PACKAGENAME
        br
        ' (Returns a screenshot (800x600 pixels or less) of a package. If no
        ' screenshot was found then a dummy image will be returned along with the
        ' HTTP code 404.)

    ' If you would like to get a complete list of packages or screenshots in JSON
    ' format then contact us and we will give you the URL.

  h2 Uploading new screenshots

  p
     ' Whether you are a developer or not - we appreciate if you upload screenshots.
     ' See if your favorite package does not yet have a screenshot and
     ' upload one.

  h2 Statistics

  p
    // TODO: Use real values
    ' There are currently #{@package_count} software packages in the database.
    / ' 3798 of them have screenshots.
    / ' That makes a total of 7.8%.
    ' #{@screenshot_count} screenshots have been uploaded which means that
    ' every package has an average number of #{@pkg_avg_screenshots} screenshots.

  / p
  /   // TODO: Use plot about upload statistics
  /   ' (Number of screenshots uploaded each month.)

  h2 Who is behind this site?

  p
    ' This site has been developed and is maintained by Christoph Haas.
    ' It runs on a web application called <em>debshots</em> that was written in Ruby-on-Rails.
    ' debshots also uses a PostgreSQL database, the jQuery Javascript library
    ' and the Zurb Foundation toolkit.