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GIMP's 10th Anniversary Splash Contest

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the has-it-been-10-years-already dept.

Lalakis writes "Barely in time for GIMP's tenth birthday is the 10th Anniversary GIMP Splash Contest. This new contest requires a tutorial with the submissions, so get out your favorite text editor and show us all of the beautiful things you can make your GIMP do. Submit those entries and wait to see if there is a gimp-2.2.10 with your entry as the very special release splash. Here are all the current submissions. The contest will be open until Sunday the 27th of November, at which point the winner will be announced and committed to CVS. Happy Birthday GIMP!"

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  1. Thank you for windows port by CrazyJim1 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The free Gimp port to windows saved me money I would have had to use on a commercial Photoshop. Its nice to have another piece of free software that belongs on every person's computer.

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  2. Tigert + Gimp == awesome by Gopal.V · · Score: 4, Interesting
    tigert.gimp.org was the place to look for the coolest tricks with gimp. I used to just love the splash screen history there. And the Bugs Must Die was my bugzilla image replacing the traditional Ant for a long time.

    All in all, without tigert's demos - I'd have relegated gimp to being a glorified paint application instead of the cool tool for web-desginer it has recently become (and I'm not a professional web-dev, but I still like to muck around with gimp). Jimmac is good, but Tigert was and is the gimp wizard I shall worship for ever.

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  3. Re:NO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I just measured 16 seconds on my PB 1.33Ghz and 1/3 of that was X starting up. 10 seconds if caches are pre-loaded, and 8 if pre-loaded and X is running. I'm running Gimp 2.0 with a prebuilt Gimp.app. Is something wrong with your setup?

  4. No splash screen by crow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    The best splash screen would be not having one at all. Fortunately, there's a command-line option to turn it off, but I would rather not have to set an alias for every application.

    At least it doesn't steal the keyboard focus like OpenOffice does.

  5. Re:Not funny by temojen · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Come far? only if you want to limit yourself to cartoon drawing (better done vector anyways). Still no 16 bit support. Still no colour management. Both are must haves for photograph editing.

  6. Re:NO by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Now why is that the fault of GIMP?

    Uh, wha? Who's fault do you think it is that the GIMP has a splash screen?

    Splash screens are annoying. They were useful back when programs took a couple minutes to load (and froze frequently), so we knew our systems hadn't died. If it truly takes only 3-5 seconds to start, it serves no purpose, other than to annoy the poor user. (Then again, it takes a lot longer for me: around 15 seconds to completely load GIMP 2.2.9.)

    To people who don't think it's bad that a particular app has a splash screen, turn it around: do you have any apps that you think "gee, it's OK, but it really needs a splash screen"? Is there any program that would be better by annoying me with more self-advertising? (Would you put up with it if xterm had a splash screen?)

    GIMP does set the appropriate window hint that is telling the window manager that this is a splash screen. It appears that Apple is to be blamed here for delivering a lousy X server.

    Should a good X server simply ignore windows marked as splash screens? I tend to think it's the app's responsibility to not ask the X server to put that crap on my screen in the first place.