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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?
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.
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.
A blog I run for the wealth
first you get the splash screen... then you get the power... then you get the women
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'm hoping that This guy enters - his work just screams "professionalism".
...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.
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
I mean really, what is that brown pointy haired beast anyway? Is it a rat, or some twisted BSD ripoff?
I made this submission but it was rejected outright.
My Splash Screen
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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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.
Done entirely in MS Paint.t ?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=LukeGotszling.png
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt_2fGimpSplashContes
All your Sybase are belong to us.
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