Skip navigation.
home | news feeds | archives | search | forums | submit news
Home

GNOME 2.10 splash screen contest

Submitted by Uraeus on Fri, 2005-02-25 09:23. Gnome 2.x
Gnome 2.x

GNOME 2.10 is coming closer and is ready to rock you to the socks. But to make sure everyone gets rocked properly we need a superterrific splashscreen.
Now is your chance to join the ranks of the precious few who have had their artwork associated with a major release of the GNOME! Contest rules and details are at gimp.org. Keep on rocking, and btw, you can use other apps to make the splash too, including for instance Inkscape.

Comment viewing options

Select your preferred way to display the comments and click "Save settings" to activate your changes.
Contest Winner!? by Anonymous George
Deadline by Anonymous George
TRICKERY! by Anonymous George
Colors by Anonymous George
I agree, the current "winner" by Anonymous George
Yet another stupid contest.... by Anonymous George

... so why have you indented the last one?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-02-26 19:55.

Well I am sorry for your disappointment about that contest. They didn't got everything right 'til now. Such things happen. But if you are lucky they will overcome all obstacles and you win.

On the other hand these type of contests are all without any prices. The only thing you can get is honor. Which is or at least could be very important for one self. But I think you could wait some more days to collect it, if you are really that good.

Ubuntu website contest is unu

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-02-27 18:02.

Ubuntu website contest is unusual because there offer a US$1000 first prize for the winning design.

But it doesn' really matter - I mean money are important but you know - the most important thing about competitions is fun, competition, adrenaline.

When you send your project on contest you are excited but when you need to wait a MONTH and still nothing it really isn't fun but only dissapointing and annoying....

great but there are other things that should be fixed first by cg0def
Well, every file extension th by Anonymous George
yes, but... by Anonymous George

There are already some nice e

Submitted by whiz on Fri, 2005-02-25 16:54.

There are already some nice entries, but they all have some kind of problem. For example, GNOME is spelled with all capital letters (it's an acronym) and having text such as "Desktop" or "Loading" can't be good from a translators POV. Anyway, I'm sure it will be resolved in good time :-)

GNOME or Gnome by Anonymous George

Okay, I'm not worrying. Is Gn

Submitted by waf on Fri, 2005-02-25 18:41.

Okay, I'm not worrying. Is Gnome better yet?

Hell yeah it is. by Anonymous George

gnome?

Submitted by kamstrup on Mon, 2005-02-28 05:16.

gnome?

I hope to see lots of molecul by Anonymous George

That means too slow

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-02-25 11:25.

If something needs a splash screen, usualy it means too long startup time.

How about reducing startup time instead of making very beautiful splash screen?

What do we have to start anyway, except nautilus and panels? Last saved session for instance can be loaded after desktop is already became usable.

agree by Anonymous George

Re: That means too slow

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-02-25 14:42.

Yes, the startup time is definitely too slow (there have been various discussions about this and various ways of speeding it up; in particular Havoc's proposal about gconf sounded interesting). However, fixing this before Gnome 2.10 is not possible since there's just not enough time left. What is reasonable in that time frame is to provide an up-to-date splashscreen (i.e. one that doesn't say "Gnome 2.8" on it) in order to let the user know that their machine didn't freeze and that something really is happening.

well by Anonymous George
i agree by Anonymous George
Oh really? by Anonymous George
I think most time is spent on by Anonymous George

Make GDM do it

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-02-27 07:31.

As I understand GDM is the Gnome Login per default. Why not make it load most of the needed libs for Nautilus and the panel while still waiting for the username and password. Of course usersession specific stuff can't be preloaded. But most of the basics can. As someone pointed out already Gnomes Login is a blast as soon as you logged in once. Let's try to catch it at login time. There is usually some idle time before the session is launched and this could be put to good use. Or would this be a dirty "hack"?

because the user wouldn't nec

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-02-28 07:47.

because the user wouldn't necessarily want to start gnome.

You know what?

Submitted by kamstrup on Mon, 2005-02-28 05:21.

That was a bloody good idea :)

Should be doable, right? I am not really an ELF/kernel/what-not expert, but my limited knowledge in these areas, suggests that it should...

Sabayon can show infeciency by Anonymous George
Well, as it is now, the deskt by Anonymous George

On the topic of splash screens, I have a thought to suggest.

Submitted by khanreaper on Fri, 2005-02-25 10:59.

While it is great that GNOME is putting up a request for a new splash screen, I would like to pose a few thoughts to the community.

Ever since I wrote an article on describing how one can change GNOME's splash screen, I have received many web hits with search queries that suggest that many users would like to know how to change the splash screen, in particular what the involved methdology and procedures are.

That is fine, but I must admit that it makes me question GNOME's usability in one aspect; it seems to suggest that changing the splash screen is not a straight-forward process, for it is poorly documented (or the collective knowledge/memory of how to manipulate such a thing is very poor) and by virtue of that perhaps a bit too tedious or low-level in process for most individuals, which is not an attempt to imply that GNOME users are incompetent or technologically deficient.

GNOME could be well-suited by having a splash screen manager embedded in the gnome-themes-manager utility.

If you do not believe me, take a look at some old data that I have from my access logs.

gtweakui ;) by Anonymous George
Gnome 2.2? by Anonymous George
License and Debian by Anonymous George

>Unless the submitter agrees

Submitted by BeS on Fri, 2005-02-25 14:44.

>Unless the submitter agrees to dual-license under something DFSG-free in addition to CC.

I thought that the "Creative Commons 'share and share alike' license" is like a free copyleft license, why shouldn't this license be DFSG-free?

CC = not DFSG by Anonymous George
Debian and RMS worshipping by Anonymous George
Debian and RMS "worshipping" by Anonymous George
The licensor's intent by Anonymous George
Debian and CC by Anonymous George