Re: PseudOT: GNOME 1.4 splash

["Diego Escalante Urrelo" <diegoe gnome org>]

On 8/21/07, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 21:46 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote:
>
> > On 8/21/07, Quim Gil <qgil gnome org> wrote:
> > > That one, yes. Luca, you were almost as fast as Tuomas (via IM).  :)
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > >
> > > I'm writing few lines about it, since it was my first GNOME
> > impression:
> > > "It was love at a first glance. In fact I got seduced even before
> > > stepping in the desktop itself. That GDM splash with some old houses
> > > had character, it was totally disruptive with any boot screen I had
> > > seen before."
> >
> > Whoa, time-travelling. I recall that when I first used redhat 7.2 I
> > also liked GNOME's look, still I don't know why...
> > I recall something with a lighthouse, I think it was the splash screen
> > also. Anybody knows where can I find that one? Is my memory ok?
>
> I remember the lighthouse thing too...  Also around redhat 7.2 I
> remember logging into GNOME and finding only a couple of items in the
> panel and a feeling of "what do I do now?".  I installed KDE then and it
> was a lot more inviting, and I started hacking on Qt to fix its problems
> rendering Persian...

Yay! Found it on an rpm:

ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gnome-core-1.4.0.4-38.i386.rpm

I uploaded the splash here:

http://flickr.com/photos/diegoe/1208872531/

Maybe someone else wanted it as much as I did ;).

Greetings!.