Re: New splash for Gnome2?

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Not to be rude, Nancy, but IMHO this is not yet a question for the
marketing team. Certainly, this is something that your input will and
should be considered on, but right now releases are by and for hackers,
and as such things like this are just 'for fun.' If you can think of a
way to make this more fun for us, great... if not, please wait until the
polished and final release, at which point you are welcome to be more
assertive and suggestive about a more 'marketable' approach, and at
which time I'd hope that we listen /extremely/ seriously to your
feedback, which will be /very/ appreciated in our further quest for
world domination :) 

In the meantime, as per Glynn's contest suggestion, I'd like to nominate
the following pictures for consideration for the splash screen:

These are both in keeping with the 'light' theme of the Ximian splash:

http://tieguy.org/pics/index.php?galerie=White_Mountains_NH-10-13-2001&snimek=18
http://tieguy.org/pics/index.php?galerie=Paris%20[January%202002]&snimek=98

This one is more reflective of the current 'beta' nature, but sadly a
bit out of focus:

http://tieguy.org/pics/index.php?galerie=Paris%20[January%202002]&snimek=114

And this one is just because I think it would be the greatest thing ever
in a splash screen:

http://primates.ximian.com/~federico/news-photos/20020118-dave.jpg

Sincerely, 
Bugmaster 'Pancho' Villa

On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 20:34, Nancy Frishberg wrote:
> IMHO this is a question that the GNOME Product Marketing team ought to chime in on.  Did you know that there is one?
> 
> Great to know that Sebastian is ready to help.  
> 
>   -- Nancy
> 
> 
> Seth Nickell wrote:
> > 
> > IMO we should continue to use a photograph of some sort here.
> > Photographs look nice, feel warm and friendly (hell, even photographs of
> > factories do compared with most graphic art ;-) and they tire less than
> > wild/fancy graphic art.
> > 
> > Perhaps Tuomas would have something to suggest? (he's provided a number
> > of the other pictures, right?)
> > 
> > -Seth
> > 
> > On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 12:19, Jens Finke wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, Sebastian Wilson wrote:
> > > > I'm a CS student with a graphic design backround.  I'd love to work on a
> > > > splash screen for Gnome2.  If you tell me where can I find the origional
> > > > art, I'll make sure whatever I build will be the same size and file formats.
> > >
> > > What we need is a png image. The size doesn't matter that much, because
> > > the code resizes the splash window to the image size. The current splash
> > > image can be found in CVS under
> > > gnome-session/gnome-session/gnome-splash.png.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > >   Jens
> > >
> > > --
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> > > verlieren." -- Benjamin Franklin
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