This time of the year again: Splash Screen

[Mark Kretschmann]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:10 AM, Nikhil Marathe <nsm.nikhil at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Great, Nikihl :)

> Its a PNG, the earlier was a JPG, so is
> that an issue
> or can I modify App.cpp to simply use a PNG?

Yes, you could do that. Or, if the PNG is very large in size, convert
it to JPEG (but with good quality), and then put both in Git Master,
so that we still have the original file available.

> I suppose I also add Tomasz to the contributors/thanks to list as
> splash screen artist right?

Sure, just be careful not to introduce string changes. You could
perhaps re-use existing strings.

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