GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition

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GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Competition

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday November 30, 2004 @03:54AM 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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My Favorite Splash Screen by stecoop · 2004-11-30 03:55 · Score: 5, Insightful

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.
1. Re:My Favorite Splash Screen by Meostro · 2004-11-30 04:00 · Score: 5, Informative
  
  As per the link in the mighty $'s post below, start gimp with
  gimp -s
  to disable the spalsh screen completely.
2. Re:My Favorite Splash Screen by stecoop · 2004-11-30 04:02 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  There should be a universal standard for all application in the development community where the command --nosplash will disable splash screens.
3. Re:My Favorite Splash Screen by oexeo · 2004-11-30 04:07 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  > The only good Splash Screen is a dead one.
  
  They do have a purpose though, they hide the fact the program takes forever to initialize
4. Re:My Favorite Splash Screen by shufler · 2004-11-30 04:08 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  An environment variable would be a better option, because really -- if you disable the splash screen on one program, don't you also want to disable it on all programs?
GIMP Splash Screens by the_mighty_$ · 2004-11-30 03:56 · Score: 4, Informative

You can find out more about GIMP splash screens

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will my submisson get disqualified by hsmith · 2004-11-30 03:57 · Score: 5, Funny

if i do it in Photoshop?
And the winner is... by CodeWanker · 2004-11-30 04:00 · Score: 5, Funny

Goatse! Goatse! Goatse!

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1. Re:And the winner is... by archen · 2004-11-30 04:18 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  That's one way to force development to get Gimp to load as fast as possible.
What's with the animated icon? by Xetrov · 2004-11-30 04:02 · 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 /.
1. Re:What's with the animated icon? by CvD · 2004-11-30 04:15 · Score: 3, Informative
  
  Slashdot's topic icon for the GIMP is animated (the only animated icon). Watch his eyes. :-)
  
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What would be better by oexeo · 2004-11-30 04:02 · Score: 4, Insightful

This competition is great, but maybe a "design GIMP a decent fucking GUI" contest would be better?
1. Re:What would be better by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-30 04:24 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  I'll add my 2c here in agreement.
  
  I started out in graphics with gimp. I had enough interest in pixelling to want to continue, to learn the roped and put up with the difficulties. I'd been TOLD that graphics was hard, and it was tedious indeed.
  
  Then I used Photoshop, ready to scoff at the proprietary solution costing so many thousands and doing no more than gimp. Within 2 weeks I'd gone out and bought photoshop because no matter how much you listen to someone else's experience with a program, there is nothing more revealing than using it yourself. Gimp feels nearly feature complete, but in the same way a large rock is feature complete with a set of six various sized hammers. When you need to hit something and do it right, the hammers let you do it exactly how you want to.
  
  Photoshop is a set of hammers.
2. Re:What would be better by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · 2004-11-30 05:12 · Score: 3, Insightful
  
  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. The underlying engine in Gimp is probably good enough for a lot of work but the user interface is just plain horrible when compared to Photoshop.
  
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how about... by flacco · 2004-11-30 04:03 · Score: 4, Insightful

...one that says "*Still* only 8-bit color!"

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1. Re:how about... by Lalakis · 2004-11-30 04:18 · Score: 5, Interesting
  
  Most people don't really need it, but more than 8-bit per pixel color is coming soon. Next release (2.4) will add color management capabilities and the one after that (3.0), planned for the next fall, will add higher bit depth, layer effects and pretty much everything you want (all that because of the GEGL library intergration).
While they're at it... by jejones · 2004-11-30 04:13 · Score: 3, Interesting

...could they also ditch the ghastly font the splash screen uses for "the gimp"?
background load while using it would be nice by jago25_98 · 2004-11-30 04:13 · Score: 4, Insightful

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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Wait a minute! by scorpionsoft · 2004-11-30 04:29 · Score: 5, Funny

Maybe the prize should be a free copy of the GIMP!!??
What The Gimp really needs for professionals by SpamJunkie · 2004-11-30 04:43 · Score: 3, Insightful

...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.
Re:Name change by Anonymous Coward · 2004-11-30 04:56 · Score: 3, Informative

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'.

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 ... but the name makes it sound like it is.
My submission by ZackSchil · 2004-11-30 05:42 · Score: 4, Funny

I made this submission but it was rejected outright.

My Splash Screen