Re: GNOME2 and Splash Screens

[Christian Meyer <chrisime uni de>]

Hi Seth!

Am Mon, 2002-03-04 um 12.39 schrieb Seth Nickell:
> 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.

Nice idea. I hope we won't get too many city shots ;-)

Just one suggestion:
The current font looks quite ugly. We should better choose another one.
How about using other icons for the splash screen. I'm sure that
tigert/jimmac would care about it.

Greetings,
Christian