Re: GNOME2 and Splash Screens

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 02:25, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> sön 2002-03-03 klockan 20.14 skrev Mike Newman:
> > Someone mentioned this recently (here, or perhaps on IRC?). I was
> > playing around with a nice image of Bristol (near where I live), and
> > pretty much gave up. However Scizzo <scizzo sector7 nu> - a budding
> > designer and founder of #design on IRC, worked a little magic.
> > 
> > Just a thought - I think its rather fine...shots of it in action here:
> > 
> > http://www.gtnorthern.demon.co.uk/splash.html
> 
> Looks really nice. We could also use this scheme for all GNOME 2.X
> splash screens, with city lines from different cities all over the
> world. I think that would be really nice, then we can refer to the
> different releases as: "The Bristol release" :)

If we get enough nice city shots it would be fun to have the the final
release include all the splash screens from the betas (with the beta
text removed of course, just the photos!) and pick one randomly each
time the user logs in.

-Seth