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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?
---- Booth was a patriot ----
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?
Goatse! Goatse! Goatse!
"Wow. Now THAT'S a lot of angry Indians." - Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer
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.
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
Over-zealous parents and school teachers are a serious barrier to the adoption of anything in America.
It is not a good reason to change the name simply because people can't accept that the words don't carry the meaning, but how you use them does. After all, check out the latest TV trailers for "Meet the Fockers" (Sequel to Meet the Parents). How can that be socially acceptable title (it may yet not be) and "The Gimp" not be?
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.
...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.
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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.
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.
Well, it's a painting program. You can't just use arbitrary image. Something should tell that it's a painting program. Add brushes and pencils sticking out of it, I dunno... Be creative!
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 don't think the problem is necessarily the association with Pulp Fiction's character, 'Gimp' ... but rather that the word gimp actually means 'disabled'.
... but the name makes it sound like it is.
Why not just call it:
'NotAsGoodAsPhotoshop' and see if that helps the adoption. Using your logic, it shouldn't matter, as it's not the meaning the words currently have, but instead the ones you want to give them.
Seriously, the name GIMP makes it sound like the software knows that it will make you unproductive and is warning you ahead of time.
Disclaimer:
I'm not saying that the GIMP actually is bad
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?
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
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.
Mod parent up. Funny!
Eh? Gimp isn't a drawing program. There are plenty of drawing programs but not packages that do what Photoshop and Gimp do. 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). 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.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
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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I am in no way affiliated with this sig.
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?
Nobody is asking you to adopt the GIMP.
Free software is often written to scratch an itch the programmers might have. So was the GIMP. If you can use it, fine; if you cannot, fine too.
If you want to give it a different name, grab a copy off of cvs.gimp.org and distribute it under a different name. There's lots of people doing that on eBay. (Well, perhaps not lots, but both The GIMP and Project Gutenberg books have been sold on eBay under different names, presumably to draw attention away from the fact that you can get these items for free.)
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.
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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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.
### Free software is often written to scratch an itch the programmers might have. So was the GIMP. If you can use it, fine; if you cannot, fine too.
Well, yes, of course, its Free Software so it has every right to suck and be unusable, but don't expect people to be praud of it or recomment it to their friends then. If Free Software should get a larger user base, which is something at least quite a lot of Free Software devopers want, they need to listen to their user base.
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.
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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