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GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the your-work-in-lights dept.

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)."

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  1. will my submisson get disqualified by hsmith · · Score: 5, Funny

    if i do it in Photoshop?

    1. Re:will my submisson get disqualified by TheSurfer · · Score: 2, Funny

      Not if you re-save the file afterwards in The Gimp ;)

    2. Re:will my submisson get disqualified by silicon-pyro · · Score: 2, Funny

      if I do it in M$ Paint?

      it sounded good in my head.

  2. BRING OUT THE GIMP by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    The Gimp's asleep

    Well I guess you better wake him up then

  3. And the winner is... by CodeWanker · · Score: 5, Funny

    Goatse! Goatse! Goatse!

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    1. Re:And the winner is... by archen · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's one way to force development to get Gimp to load as fast as possible.

  4. What's with the animated icon? by Xetrov · · Score: 4, Funny

    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 /.

  5. A Plush Prize. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Submit your work and get the glory (there may be a small prize sponsored, too)."

    A Wilbur (The GIMP Mascot) plushie.

  6. In this country by jasonbowen · · Score: 2, Funny

    first you get the splash screen... then you get the power... then you get the women

  7. [Windows] Programs Need Them by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    "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.

  8. Re:My Favorite Splash Screen by Pxtl · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

    j/k.

    One flat file per app is fine, thanks. Alternately, the Windows registry wouldn't be so bad if it was easy to find keys related to program X or Y (rather than its sluggish search) and the damn thing had some form of docstrings. If Python has tought me one thing, its that you can never have too many docstrings.

  9. Wait a minute! by scorpionsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe the prize should be a free copy of the GIMP!!??

  10. I'm hoping.. by schon · · Score: 2, Funny

    I'm hoping that This guy enters - his work just screams "professionalism".

  11. how about a better name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    photoshop sounds like what it does. Gimp sounds like someone on crutches. perhaps "better than crack" as a possible name

  12. Build it into a kernel and boot it from ROM by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    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.

  13. My submission by ZackSchil · · Score: 4, Funny

    I made this submission but it was rejected outright.

    My Splash Screen

  14. Re:What The Gimp really needs for professionals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I for one love the name.

    Sincerely,
    StraponSissyboymaid77

  15. All of them! by cocoa+moe · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  16. Re:background load while using it would be nice by duggy_92127 · · Score: 2, Funny
    oh, I had typed more but lost it all after gimp loaded up and changed focus while I was typing and looking at keyboard.

    Quick fix: learn to type.

    (I kid.)

    Doug

  17. Here's mine by ICECommander · · Score: 2, Funny

    Done entirely in MS Paint.
    http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fGimpSplashContest ?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=LukeGotszling.png

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