Args, we forgot about: The Splash Screen

[Casper van Donderen]

On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:20:19 +0100, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen  
<admin at leinir.dk> wrote:

> On Monday 08 March 2010 15:16:24 Ian Monroe wrote:
>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
> wrote:
>> > On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Ian Monroe <ian.monroe at gmail.com>  
>> wrote:
>> >> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 5:43 AM, Lydia Pintscher <lydia at kde.org>  
>> wrote:
>> >>> On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 12:40, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
> wrote:
>> >>>> we almost forgot to exchange the splash screen, gah. I had started
>> >>>> some kind of contest on my blog, you can see the results in the
>> >>>> comments here:
>> >>>>
>> >>>> http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1164-Kraut-Sourcing.html
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> My absolute favorite is the top left one here (license is OK too):
>> >>>>
>> >>>> http://roozbehonline.com/pix/88/11/amarok-splash-rosha-version.png
>> >>>>
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I think it looks just amazing and fits our style perfectly.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> What do you think? :)
>> >>>
>> >>> I think it makes us look like we're copying from Apple :/
>> >>
>> >> When did apple get a trademark on dancing and happiness? :)
>> >
>> > Yeah. And seriously: I don't give a shit about Apple.
>> >
>> >
>> > We're Amarok, we do our stuff, and dancing people = "PARTY TIME!!"
>> >
>> > That's exactly our thing :)
>>
>> http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7898/prv3.png
>
>   i liked these from the word go :) While i personally like the bottom  
> right
> one most, i think that it's likely a bit too busy, and that the bottom  
> left
> one is probably the most "KDE4" one, to put it like that :)

Actually I don't agree with that, the new background has all these  
'blocks'.
So probably the top-right or borrom-center one is most KDE-like.

I just don't like the 'darkness' of the images, maybe the color of the  
bottom left one combined with the top-tight one is nice.

>> I'd be cool with any of these, except for the two on the top left
>> (since we don't have an analyzer yet).
>
>   Yeah, that's kind of a problem ;)
>


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