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GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition
Lalakis writes "The GIMP 2.2 Splash Contest is now officially
open! Competition entries should be attached to the live.gnome.org wiki
before midnight next Sunday. Submit your work and get the glory (there may be a small prize sponsored, too)."
The only good Splash Screen is a dead one.
How about having no splash screen as an option and let everyone else stare at the pretty picture for N seconds. I have so many windows open that I don't need to have something else occupying my desktop. To me, splash screens are annoying like browser popups - which I haven't seen in months thanks Mozzy that also has the alias & shortcut command option of nosplash.
I wonder how many submissions of the Goatse guy they'll recieve.
You can find out more about GIMP splash screens
if i do it in Photoshop?
How many windows can you have open when your desktop is just starting?
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but but, how will all my important fonts be checked without a splash screen?
The Gimp's asleep
Well I guess you better wake him up then
Something I've liked in the past from compiling development versions of the Gimp are the development splash screens. Frequently containing giant photos of bugs (for squashing, obviously), fake news report screengrabs or some other warped aspects of the programmers' humour, they often show that programmer art isn't necessarily a bad thing.
:-)
Although a couple of them were astoundingly crude - but I think that was intentional.
Tedious Bloggy Stuff - hooray?
Since "pulp fiction", the name is a serious barrier to adoption.
CinePaint is a reasonable name (but has generally fallen way behind GIMP proper). Can we have a reverse takeover like NeXT and Apple, with the CinePaint name (and remaining high-color features) but the main GIMP branch?
Goatse! Goatse! Goatse!
"Wow. Now THAT'S a lot of angry Indians." - Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
I submitted a goatse.cx image and they turned it down. Who are they to think someone might not want that!
That animated topic icon sent me through a rollercoaster of emotions:
/.
1. I was scared - been playing Doom3 all day, I'm a bit jumpy
2. Denial - I thought I imagined it
3. Relief - I'm not crazy
4. Disgust - I just wasted a few minutes of my life describing an emotional journey spawned by a few moving pixels on
This competition is great, but maybe a "design GIMP a decent fucking GUI" contest would be better?
...one that says "*Still* only 8-bit color!"
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
in Korea, only old people splash.
Oh wait.
OpenOffice.org it's seeking a new Splash Screen too. (Splashscreen for OpenOffice.org 2.0 Wanted
One Splash Screen, two opportunities to win.
And remeber to make it really evil.
My city: Barcelona.
"Submit your work and get the glory (there may be a small prize sponsored, too)."
A Wilbur (The GIMP Mascot) plushie.
The ASCII trolls can be on-topic for a change
Actually, some splash screens are good for something. Think about Java programs that have to be runtime compiled, they usually take long times to load. In a case like that, a splash screen is extremely useful.
Since everyone's doing a Splash screen. How about one for Slashdot?
"You've just loaded Slashdot. A picture of Rob Malda pops up showing hime eating a sandwich"
...could they also ditch the ghastly font the splash screen uses for "the gimp"?
I'd prefer to be able to use it while it loads the bigger things like plugins in the background.
Waiting (about 30 seconds?) is a pain when you only want to edit an 16 pixel icon especially.
p.s. aren't message boxes also awful too, interrupting work and stealing focus... oh, I had typed more but lost it all after gimp loaded up and changed focus while I was typing and looking at keyboard.
A blog I run for the wealth
GIMP is only used by the elderly
Or you can steal one from other open source projects.
OpenOffice.org license permits just do that, or it doesn't.
My city: Barcelona.
first you get the splash screen... then you get the power... then you get the women
"Think about Java programs that have to be runtime compiled, they usually take long times to load. In a case like that, a splash screen is extremely useful."
Or when you're installing, or starting up MS Windows.
FINALLY, slashdot is competing with fark for valuable photoshop market share
- my userid is lower than yours
However the story is about the Splash Screen, not your pet hates. If you really want an ontopic post? I suggest you get the GIMP guys to submit a "Hate the GIMP? Tell us more." story to Slashdot. Then you'll get all the +5 Insightfuls you can stand.
... are of "The Gimp" development splash screens.
Gee what a bad name for a program, count they now call it something more professional.
(NOT the Pro Gimp, or Gimp Pro)
I don't think the parent was off topic : this is Slashdot and there are trolls who may profit from this open Wiki page so, be sure there will be many flavoured submissions, including the goatse, tubgirl, lemon party, GNAA manifestoes...
It's a serious question and even if it could be seen as either frightening or funny, I do NOT think it's off topic.
Trolling using another account since 2005.
Maybe the prize should be a free copy of the GIMP!!??
I don't like animated gifs and such jumping around on my screen.
/.s GIMP icon is just the eyeballs, and looks rather silly.
Unfortunately, that means that
It was a joke! When you give me that look it was a joke.
Shouldn't this be a Fark photoshop contest instead?
[Photoshop] - Create these guys a new splash screen. Decent farking GUI to follow.
I'm hoping that This guy enters - his work just screams "professionalism".
"Gee, its too bad Linux doesn't have a single, consolidated tree-based system for storing type-specific environment variables. It would be handy for registryng such things."
Like GConf?
photoshop sounds like what it does. Gimp sounds like someone on crutches. perhaps "better than crack" as a possible name
...is a new name.
Few management types are going to approve of using a BDSM-themed program no matter how free it is.
The attempt at making a cute raccoon-like animal the mascot doesn't help. We all know that he's wearing nothing but leather and pain below the neck.
pornview.
I wish I had thought of that. And knew how to code. I've of course never used pornview because I view my pr0n in feature film version. And on DVD. Because when you cheat the adult industry, you're really only cheating yourself.
Please stop stalking me, bro.
This is so exciting, I'm going to fire up my copy of photoshop right now and make them a great splash screen! ;)
Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle, and quick to anger.
I once had an interview for a job once, it later transpired that they only wanted to see me as I have 'The GIMP' and 'SATAN' mentioned on my CV :-)
Didn't get the job & didn't want it after that anyway!
"See! Programmers can design GUIs!"
When I think about contests and Gimp, I think about
http://contest.gimp.org/. Was a lot of fun browsing through the entries and submitting work. To bad its now defunc since 1999. Even so its long gone I kind of still miss it, always makes me think of good old times, I guess I am just getting really old...
Here are some other ideas to make it fast, have it boot from a ROM.
Compile it into a kernel.
Have a special version that is just for that.
Have this version built and configured just for a tablet type PC.
Have this device just boot and laod GIMP.
It would have a network connection so you could get the stuff off of it.
It would be cheep enough that you could give one to every school child.
It would just be The Gimp, as a hand-held.
To administer it you would ssh to it on a closed network.
Sounds like a product to me.
Don't know why no one is already doing this.
I think the splash screen should say.
'Want this application to load faster?, click here to donate'
thank God the internet isn't a human right.
I mean really, what is that brown pointy haired beast anyway? Is it a rat, or some twisted BSD ripoff?
Rather than writing code that would just "fix" their own program, perhaps the GIMP folks should add proper virtual desktop support to Windows, and thus fix this problem for every single "non-standard" application which doesn't try to make up for the shortcomings of bad window managers.
"There's a difference between doing occasional jobs in Gimp and trying to use it professionally i.e. for 10 hours a day. I pity anyone who works for a company that refuses to pay for Photoshop and makes their employees use Gimp."
There's two flaws with this argument.
1) Most (if not all) the complaints are from Windows users.
2) There are OTHER programs (Payware, Shareware, Freeware) beside the GIMP, or Photoshop on the Windows platform.
So anyone who wants to RUN WINDOWS, BE CHEAP, and USE A DRAWING PROGRAM. Can have what they want without even knowing the GIMP exists.
Jeez! I think you all simply grep for GIMP stories, and complain, just so you can have something to do with your free time.
A status bar or a progress window would serve better than any nice picture.
GIMP for Windows already has a progress bar and status display below the splash screen. If you propose to eliminate the splash screen entirely, then where on my Windows display do you propose to put the progress bar, if not in a window with the splash screen? Would you suggest the Taskbar Notification Area (commonly called "tray")?
that the parent poster already knew that.
It was probably the sarcastic tone, but perhaps I've got esp.
I made this submission but it was rejected outright.
My Splash Screen
Is it ok if I make it in Photoshop?
DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
So anyone who wants to RUN WINDOWS, BE CHEAP, and USE A DRAWING PROGRAM.
Replace "RUN WINDOWS" with "RUN THE DRIVER FOR HIS EXISTING FLATBED SCANNER WHICH IS MARKED UNSUPPORTED IN SANE'S HARDWARE LIST" and you have a more accurate depiction of some people's problems with Free operating systems. Microtek keeps me on Windows by not releasing wire-level specifications for the Scanmaker 4850, which I bought before I wanted to try Linux.
"photoshop sounds like what it does."
Well the original name was too much truth in advertising.
"If someone writes software to sell, there's incentive to at least attempt to make it straightforward to use. If someone writes software for their own use, they already know how it works and trying to make it easy for other people to use isn't as obviously important to them."
Please feel free to do one of the two.
1) Adopt a GIMP developer. Pay them a salary.
2) Donate money to the cause.
You don't like the OSS methodology, then you're more than welcome to go back to the Windows one.
I'd ask why you even left to begin with?
I wonder if a facial screen would make the cut as a splash screen?
Lindsay Blanton
RadioReference.com
8 bits ought to be enough for anyone!
--joking. i agree that the 8bit only issue is the worst problem of the Gimp. It has better GUI than Photoshop (I have an experience with both of them), it is very good indeed, but 8bits makes me sometimes launch Cinepaint, which I do not like. However, it will be better soon, I hope!
Deliriant isti Americani.
I think they should set gimp to look in the app folder for splash.png. If it can't find it, it ignores a splash. Allow anyone to replace the .png file with their own splash screen.
.png graphic somewhere else.
much easier, instead of -no splash, just delete or move the
this way we can have a contest winner, and all the losers can still see their graphic in the gimp. Splash screens are cool at leaast for the very first startup because they remind you you have new shiny program.
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"Eh? Gimp isn't a drawing program. There are plenty of drawing programs but not packages that do what Photoshop and Gimp do."
And just what do you think Corel Paint is? Let alone the rest of the suite. There's plenty of other examples of professional software out there.
"And I'm talking about graphics professionals. These are people who use Windows, Macs and in many cases came from a Unix background years ago (eg. SGIs)."
Graphics profesionals aren't using the GIMP, or any other low end software to begin with. Yours is a strawman argument.
"I don't think I've ever complained about Gimp online before and I really don't know what you are talking about and what is the matter with you."
Most complainers don't know what they're talking about. Your argument is based on a fallacy (that graphics profesionals working for a cheap boss will be saddled with the GIMP). I just pointed out that Windows users have (and have had for years) programs that run the gamut in both price and features that will satisfy any graphics professional. There's no need to even be aware that the GIMP exists (what did you all complain about before the GIMP?). Don't like me poking holes in your argument? Tough, come up with better arguments.
Absolutely
The GIMP allows you to make your own splash screen and have that as startup splash instead of the one that comes with the archive. To do this you can simply follow the guidelines below.
* Make the splash 300x200 or more. (Smaller splashs will make text being cut off)
* Then save the splash in $PREFIX/gimp/2.0/images/gimp_splash.png
* Starting with GIMP 2.2, the splash image is called gimp-splash.png and will also be searched in your personal GIMP directory (~/.gimp-2.2/).
Restart GIMP and your splash screen should be the one being used by GIMP instead of the one from the archive.
Deliriant isti Americani.
Choose the text layer and use the rotate tool.
Which destroys editability.
Use the Scale tool.
Which destroys editability.
Choose "create path from text" from the text tool options.
Which destroys editability.
If GIMP supported adjustment layers, it would be possible to rotate and non-proportionally scale text by attaching adjustment layers to text.
MOD UP PARENT!
:)
That is a great splash page - I'd never guess why they threw it out!?!?!?
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For many purposes, GPLed images are a pain in the ass because of this requirement. On the other hand, if the GIMP developers want the splash image to serve as a tutorial, this mignt be exactly what they want to require. In that case, they might want to give bonus points to splash images with really nicely organized .xcf files.
They're supposed to be there, but if they're not, it doesn't make a difference how they're organized. Would you rather search every key in the registry (mine's about 10MB), or search the contents of every file on the disk to find your hidden settings?
/complete to list them), but again, it doesn't matter how it's organized, it would be equally as ridiculous - but harder to manage - if it were spread across 50 different files instead of just 45 keys and 5 files.
As far as malicious apps go, that's why I have AdAware and HijackThis, along with StartupList. I think it's ridiculous that there are something like 50 different places that you can inject a program on Windows startup (run StartupList
Do you consider NAV to be malicious? =) And dear god no, I'd never remove it by hand. Why would you do such a thing? If it comes down to it, I'd reinstall over the current incarnation and uninstall the new one, or kill the folder, remove all the startup entries and hope it still boots. I've never had a problem just uninstalling AVs if the system was stable, and if it wasn't I usually had bigger problems that could only be solved by FORMAT and the like.
AV software is inherently tricky, since it usually hooks several APIs and specifically would NOT want to let itself be removed. I'm glad it is that way, otherwise the next virus to come along could just trash the INI file and force a reboot, and then my computer would be wide open to anything else coming down the pike. That'd be pretty darn useful AV, eh?
You've made your point elsewhere in this discussion, no need to repeat it all the time.
There's just something about this one ... I just can't quite put my hand on it ...
Let me put it simply: Airbrush sucks. I need something better.
The task is preparing gray-to-heightmap images from photos for later 3D engraving using a CNC engraving machine. I "spray" more white using airbrush where the image in the background is higher, leave dark where the bottom should stay deep. The effect is very neat for small details or simple shapes. But it really sucks when it comes to large areas. The fact that the output is slightly grainy is not that bad - a single pass of blur and the "grains" are gone. Much harder is achieving bigger smoothly curved surfaces - just try to spray a regular flat gray area (using white), it's just as hard as to get a smooth gradient - you get low-depth, several pixels wide depressions, bumps etc that are very hard to remove.
Regular "gradient" is not an option either - I need shapes much more sophisticated than regular "spherical" or "shapeburst" - maybe something like Bezier curved gradients could help...?
Any ideas, suggestions?
(no, don't suggest Photoshop. It does exactly the same.)
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My vote goes to this gem
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I guess even hardcore artists wouldnt fire up GIMP when the windowmanager starts up. Emacs could have a splash screen though. Wait - It does!
That's the proof! VI may be e(vi)l but Emacs is worse.
hahaha.. they definitely didn't say you had to use The Gimp to actually make the graphic..
*ponders*
- Hi I'm Linus Torvalds and I pronounce Linux, Lih-nix..
what a looser.
OpenOffice.org is also having a contest for a new splashscreen for vers. 2. Why doesn't slashdot post for them...???
I guess there's no way they could have known the Python upgrade story was coming next. :)
gimp.org screenie
Done entirely in MS Paint.t ?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=LukeGotszling.png
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fGimpSplashContes
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My vote is for Bush!
The GIMP seems to be the project that Slashdot users love to hate. People go on and on about the horrendous user interface, yet fail to back this up with anything substantial. Why all the hostility toward the GIMP? If you hate the interface, what is it about it that you don't like?
I, for one, can't really see what people dislike so much about the project. The application was perfectly usable before 2.x, yet got a huge boost when 2.0 was released. The GIMP has done the most of any project when it comes to building new widgets on top of the GTK toolkit.
The GIMP is no Photoshop. It doesn't have adjustment layers, color management, the healing brush, all the cool plug-ins for digital photographers that Photoshop CS introduced, and lots of other features. Photoshop is a remarkable application, there's no question about it, but the GIMP is eminently usable -- it's a remarkable project, and it is making great strides.
So the next time, if you feel the need to complain, please try to be a little bit more specific and use less inflammatory language.
-- David Polberger Computer Science major, University of Lund, Sweden
There are so many good entries already. Why not choose many of them and have the the gimp load a different splash every time it starts? It would be interesting, for sure.
Got time? Spend some of it coding or testing
You must be reading another slashdot then I am, while its true that there is a bunch of flaming without facts, the facts itself (floating windows, confusing menu, lack of preview, lack of brushes, lack/obscure/unusable drawing primitves, etc.) get repeated over and over again with every mentioned of slashdot, so its pretty obvious why people just leave them out from time to time.
### If you hate the interface, what is it about it that you don't like?
Look for example here and thats just a few of the things that are wrong with Gimp.
### So the next time, if you feel the need to complain, please try to be a little bit more specific and use less inflammatory language.
Well, people have critised the same issues for like five years and things on the Gimp side havn't been much improved at all, sure a little bit fine tuning here and there, but the major issues are still unresolved and nobody of the Gimp developers really seems to care. And well, add to that, that constantly people come and say 'well, you just have to get used to it' while the critics often use Gimp for many many years, its no wonder they get a bit annoyed.
I have seen antivirus software suffer from a corrupted installation many times on newly formatted clean installations of windows. Often, it won't allow itself to be uninstalled automatically when this happens. This means that either you spend the time and wipe the system again or you figure out how to remove the software manually. Symantec should have made things easier with regards to removing the software manually. There's no reason to consider a sort of second line of defense. If a virus gets past your virus protection software, you can be 90% sure it's going to cripple it at the same time anyway.
Instead of wasting time on pointeless bullshit like a 'splash screen'. Re-write The gimp from the ground up, and make the UI something which is WORTHWHILE and USABLE - Like for example, Paint Shop Pro.
GIMP is a JOKE. I'm disappointed this is considered 'the best' of open sores software.
This will never win, but I hope they include it as an option in the final download.
http://live.gnome.org/static/CarlCarlson.png
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Because they want to trap the idiots that make those stupid splash screens, lure them with prizes and promises of untold fame, and kill them!
Splash Screens sucks.
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