Re: GNOME2 and Splash Screens

[Niklas <scizzo sector7 nu>]

Hi Seth...

Well it was some others that wanted to see it scaled down a bit and I am
ready to take any feedback to try and make it look good and now I
understand what you meant before. I will do a new scale of the image
like the way you have said. I just hope that the image wont
become...well...weird in that way.

So thanks for the info and everything. And feel free to give me more
feedback, I really need it. Thanks again.

//Niklas


mån 2002-03-04 klockan 01.42 skrev Seth Nickell:
> I wasn't suggesting you make it smaller, I think its fine to have it
> larger, I was suggesting you use a different aspect ratio.
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> There's a whole camp of design philosophy that tries to sell this for
> everything from architecture to print media, but its much more
> applicable on a monitor, where there is already a particular shape to
> the screen space (which is generally 1:1.3). Using a tall window is
> "ok", and sometimes you may want contrast against the shape of the
> screen. For a splash screen though, I think its preferable to have an
> aspect ratio that is closer to that of most screens.
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> The splash screen for GNOME 1.4 was sized very nicely, IMO.
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> -Seth
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