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GNOME 2.10 Splash Screen Contest Results

Submitted by thos on Fri, 2005-03-04 06:43. Gnome Art
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The GNOME 2.10 splash screen contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries. In just a few days, we gathered more than 220 entries - a tribute to the popularity and success of GNOME. There were many high quality entries which made choosing a final splash screen very difficult. However, a decision had to be made, so, the splash screen chosen is.... here.

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Great splash ... waiting for Gnome 3.1 .... by Anonymous George

criminal gnome

Submitted by Anonymous George on Wed, 2005-03-09 14:10.

this one should not to be taken seriously. but when i first looked at the new logo i thought somethink like this

Home folder loading contest by Anonymous George
aterm and 'ls' by Anonymous George
Bitching contest by Anonymous George

Lines need to be pixel-aligned

Submitted by l___ on Tue, 2005-03-08 08:48.

The release version lines on the background need to be pixel-aligned (several of them take up 2 pixel rows, with different shades of grey, due to antialiasing). Inkscape 0.41 has this capability. The worst example is probably the 2.6 line, but 2.7 and 2.10 also have this problem. (Also, if lines are pixel-aligned, probably the spacing between them will have to be normalized so that the gaps don't differ between different release lines).

Though its not dreadful there by Anonymous George
Big freaking deal by Anonymous George

Can someone tell me specifica

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-03-06 19:21.

Can someone tell me specifically which of the other 200-some entries they prefer? With a link that points at a URL that begins "http://www.gimp.org/contest/gallery.cgi?display=image&"?

Because, after looking through every single one, they all seem to fall into two categories:

1. Entries that look pretty much the same as the winner.
2. Entries that are much, much, much worse.

It's easy to say that the final choice is not the best one, but that isn't the same as telling us what would have been better! Yes, there is some hypothetical splash screen somewhere in the universe that is better than this one, and good for you for being imaginative enough to picture it. Now tell me which one it is, because I suspect that if you do, you'll learn we've brought enough insults about aesthetic judgement for everybody.

Reasons

Submitted by l___ on Tue, 2005-03-08 08:52.

They explained why several of those you mention could not be considered -- see their reasoning on the original link. e.g. some contain English ("Loading" or even "GNU Network Object Model Environment")...

And they were obviously not g

Submitted by l___ on Tue, 2005-03-08 08:54.

And they were obviously not going to say "This one wins, as long as they remove this piece of text and tweak this graphic". That would be even "lamer" than just picking one, if you can call that lame. They just did exactly what they said they would do. Of course there is some subjectiveness. There has to be.

The original entry that won i by Anonymous George
let's say it clearly by Anonymous George

you must be drunk

Submitted by Anonymous George on Mon, 2005-03-07 04:46.

'Entries that look pretty much the same as the winner.'

These entries DON'T LOOK AT ALL the same as the winner: THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY BETTER and more interesting.

Oh wow, you're right. A GNOM by Anonymous George

I basically like all the spla

Submitted by Daniel Borgmann on Sun, 2005-03-06 20:37.

I basically like all the splashscreens which Jimmac pointed at:
http://jimmac.musichall.cz/weblog.php/Artwork/GNOMESplash210.php
Some of them are great because they are artistic, others are great because they are just as simple as the winner but more attractive.

This is not a big deal (most users will never see it) and with the new colors it does not look bad, but it still makes me wonder why we had a contest at all. Unlike everything Jimmac did before, this simply does not fit the current GNOME style in my eyes and looks less professional.

My hope is, if this ever gets repeated, that the jury will consist of well-known members of the (awesome) GNOME artists community.

Broken Splash

Submitted by knipknap on Sun, 2005-03-06 20:18.

Can someone tell me specifically which of the other 200-some entries they prefer?

Some are just more professional.

I am not saying that I like all of them, in fact I like only one, but those are much more cleanly done. Look at the chosen splash again - the font doesn't go well with the foot at all, the shadows don't fit in distance nor in direction and the splash border is too thick. Clearly, that isn't an artist's work. You can not seriously miss all those flaws, right?
And from a less artistic point of few, it's technical, not user oriented.

But WTH. It happened and I hope whoever made the decision learned his lesson. Put some artists to the vote next time and I bet things will turn out better.

Some are just more profession by Anonymous George

Who the f made the chose ?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-03-06 18:47.

The splash is childish and ugly.

For all the whiners...

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-03-06 13:19.

...here's what I think...

I looked at every splash screen that was submitted, and while there were a few others that looked "cooler" than the chosen one, I truly don't believe that any of them match the overall quality and polish of the chosen one.

I personally think the team made a good choice. That's just my opinion though.

polish by Anonymous George
if u dont like it, change it by Anonymous George
KDE and Gnome splash's makes sence by Anonymous George

Don't seperate splashscreen from theme!

Submitted by Joacher on Sat, 2005-03-05 08:03.

In think the splashscreen should be part of the theme.

Actually, the whole theme management of gnome doesn't convince me. An official theme should be complete.

To become an official theme it defines its own

- splashscreen (!)
- iconset (svg only?)
- colorset
- window decoration set
- background (image or color)
- font (unsure about that)

Of course this just makes sense if all components have the same style and fit well together.

Then the whole desktop would appear as one piece.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with having an "advanced menu" allowing to configure each item seperately.

Regards,

Joacher

I'd agree by Anonymous George
The login manager theme reall by Anonymous George

Choose some other splash screen!!!

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-03-05 07:55.

Choose some other splash screen, please. It isn't the best (good) choise!. There are so many good splash and you chose such unprofessional one (may be, it is funny, but it shouldn't be criterion).

Karlos

as one of the artists

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sat, 2005-03-05 01:15.

i don't want to come off as a sore loser here (i guess i could prevent that by saying i do like the entry chosen) but...

i entered the contest (several times i might add) without any instruction or rules (outside the bare minimum). and when the winner was announced and we were told the "criteria" for which it was chosen i was insulted.

i honestly felt like this "contest" was treated (by the creators) as a total blow off.

honestly - if you are serious about this (and you want to keep it in the spirit of Open Source) you should have had a user vote. or you should have had a distinguished member of the OS community chose the winner based on a published criteria.

regardless - congrats to the winner. i was proud to spend time working on entries for this contest and intend to enter as many such contests for the OS community as i can.

thanks for listening

jack wallen

you should have had a user vo

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-03-06 19:01.

you should have had a user vote

I, for one, cannot wait to see a naked Paris Hilton every time I start GNOME 2.12.

Gnome's splash screen is very

Submitted by waf on Fri, 2005-03-04 21:42.

Gnome's splash screen is very simplistic. I think the method is rather out of date, and something more along the lines of Windows XP login manager/startup session or XFCE's flashing mouse would do wonders for Gnome.

who has the right to take decisions? by Anonymous George
Splash screens are important for Gnome and KDE by Anonymous George
No splash screen by Anonymous George

The Splashs are good enough

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-04 15:14.

These whiny intolerant and stupid comments are a shame.
What Gnome needs more than good Splash Screens are intelligent users.
Upgrade yourself.

Hear hear by Anonymous George
Funny, but true=) by Anonymous George

Splash not very tasty

Submitted by pata_pata on Fri, 2005-03-04 15:13.

The splash chosen is not bad, but things that I don't like in it: color scheme too simple (white-bluish), colors too dim on the bottom of the image, no warm feeling of welcome for users.

Though one of my favorites is "Cofee Gnome" (after removing the
string attached to its top), I consider other submissions better than the one chosen, and in the same conceptual category. For example, Gnome-splash-yellow (by Giovanni R. Nunes), MKK's Splash-4 (by Marcin K. Krzywonos), Smooth Gnome (by Link) and Simple Splash (by Eyal Ben-Simon).

Hummm, I believe the jury was too busy on other stuff when they made their choice. Things done in a hurry aren't usually quite right (just an opinion, of course).

Does it even matter?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-04 15:03.

Lots of complaining about the splashscreen, and yet nobody has yet commented on how the image is chosen as the "official" splash really totally beyond irrelevant anyway.

Every major distro I can think of (Fedora, Debian, Suse/Novell, Gentoo, Ubuntu) replaces the stock splash with their own branded version. Anyone who installs Gnome from the official source instead of distro packages is more than capable of changing a gconf key to select a non-sucking splash screen. Are the four users who have to see this splash screen more than once really worth this level of whining and flaming?

Ubuntu doesn't really as they by Anonymous George
No, but they do replace the * by Anonymous George
Ooops typos by Anonymous George

Noooooooo

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-04 14:51.

There was SO MANY amazing entries....

Excellent choice! by Anonymous George

Not so much

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-04 13:56.

I was pretty excited looking over the entries, but I can't believe this was the choice. Ahwell, I'm sure ubuntu will cover this up with something nice.

Seems like... by knipknap
??? by Anonymous George
Glad I use Debian by Anonymous George (not verified)

Try 2

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-04 12:27.

I need to manually escape the < character? That's really weak. Here's the rest of the last sentence:

This splash seems like it was designed by committee. Other than the glaringly obvious (2.8 < 2.10), what does it say?

Durability?

Submitted by Anonymous George on Fri, 2005-03-04 12:23.

While it may seem catchy now, this splash screen will start looking tired starting about the third time you log in. It's got no durability. The Gimp is very good about choosing splash screens that continue looking fresh and inspirational even after 20 viewings.

This splash seems like it was designed by committee. Other than the glaringly obvious (2.8 < 2.10), what does it say?