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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. My Favorite Splash Screen by stecoop · · 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 · · 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 · · Score: 5, Insightful

      There should be a universal standard for all application in the development community where the command --nosplash will disable splash screens.

  2. GIMP Splash Screens by the_mighty_$ · · Score: 4, Informative

    You can find out more about GIMP splash screens

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

    if i do it in Photoshop?

  4. 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.

  5. 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 /.

  6. What would be better by oexeo · · 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 · · 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.

  7. how about... by flacco · · Score: 4, Insightful

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

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    1. Re:how about... by Lalakis · · 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).

  8. background load while using it would be nice by jago25_98 · · 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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  9. Wait a minute! by scorpionsoft · · Score: 5, Funny

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

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

    I made this submission but it was rejected outright.

    My Splash Screen