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GIMP 2.2 Splash Screen Contest Revisited
As reported here earlier, the GIMP team asked artists to submit their artwork to be used as the official splash screen for GIMP 2.2. The reaction was overwhelming. More than 666 splash screens have been submitted. You can look at the submissions in
the gallery or download the movies, grab some popcorn and enjoy...
Once you've seen all splashes, you may want to help the judges to pick the best splash by voting for your favorites.
After one measly comment? Ja-ja ...
The knuckles, the horrible knuckles!
(I'm a girl, you know)
only a few seconds are enough...
Farked! Wait no... slash.. uhh which thingy am I on?
Woah man, you used the number 666! That makes you hardcore! Next thing you're going to tell me is the gimp is actually a cover for a super-secret organization working to create cyber demons that can overrun Earth after a portal to hell is accidently opened!
Only more irrefutable proof that demons are everywhere on the internet.
Users do not need a graphic obscuring their UI for one or more seconds while they are trying to get work done.
Splash screens suck. They use resources and are pulling down usability of the system in general when an application is loading. Most splashscreens are even always on top, rendering the system useless until the application is loaded OpenOffice.org, the ersatz Microsoft Office, is my scapegoat here). Where is multitasking here? I want to be able to choose what is at the foreground of my desktop. What is even worse is how programs with splash screens tend to be Java, meaning this splash screen stays on top for many seconds, perhaps up to 30 seconds while the program loads.
Personally, I really would prefer some status indicator in the users menu or in some kind of applet (KDE already does that, blinking mouse cursors and similar), but please, PLEASE do not use splash screens.
http://persianews.on.nimp.org/?u=Tar_Baby