This time of the year again: Splash Screen

Nikhil Marathe nsm.nikhil at gmail.com
Wed Jan 5 05:10:37 CET 2011


On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 10:22 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org> wrote:
>> Hey Amarok Team,
>>
>> first of all, a happy Christmas to all of you (in case your are
>> Christian, otherwise, just a happy holiday)!
>>
>> Our release of Amarok 2.4 is nearing, and I guess we should choose a
>> new splash screen. We still have leftovers from the last contest we
>> did, the links are in the comments of this article:
>>
>> http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/1164-Kraut-Sourcing.html
>>
>>
>> I would suggest, let's all just pick our favorites, and then we can
>> see what people like best? No need for starting some huge official
>> voting, unless we can't really get a consensus on one image.
>>
>> Which one do you like best?
>
> Reminder:
>
> Release is getting closer, and we should really place a new splash in
> Git Master now. Looking over the replies to this thread, there seems
> to be a consensus that this image is well suited:
>
> The one on the top-left here: http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/7898/prv3.png
>
> If no-one objects, can we please contact the author (I think it's the
> same guy who made the splash for 2.3.0 or so), get the original PNG,
> and put it in Git Master? Volunteers welcome, myself I am still on
> travels.
>

I have the original splash. Its a PNG, the earlier was a JPG, so is
that an issue
or can I modify App.cpp to simply use a PNG?
I suppose I also add Tomasz to the contributors/thanks to list as
splash screen artist right?

Nikhil


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