[KPhotoAlbum] splashscreen - call for competition

[Jesper K. Pedersen]

OK it is in for now.

So I challenge everyone to make the coolest splash screen possible. And I'll 
even stretch so far as to offer the community to vote for the one to use :-)

Now don't say that I'm not willing to give in.
(I just wonder how I'm ever gonna tell my girlfriend that her hand is not 
splash screen any more)

OK, splashscreen competition is on till September 15th midnight (in the time 
zone where ever I might be).

Hmmm prize? Well how about you get to brag that you made the splash screen for 
the coolest KDE application :-)

Cheers
Jesper.

On Wednesday 23 August 2006 17:39, Christoph Moseler wrote:
| Hi Jesper,
|
| another thing, that should be changed in the next version of KPhotoAlbum
| is, in my opinion, the splashscreen. Don't be angry with me, please, but
| I think, the current splashscreen doesn't have to do a lot with a
| digital photoalbum. I'm not a graphic designer, but I spend some hours
| to create a new one, the result can be viewed here:
|
| http://www.moseler.net/kpa/splash-large.png
|
| Maybe that can be an interim solution. If anyone reading this does have
| more skills in creating a splashscreen, that represents this great piece
| of software in a better way, don't hesitate to post it here.
| Please leave some space for the version number an the status messages in
| your image, these are added dynamically during the start of KPhotoAlbum.
| I will adapt the code to display these messages at the right position,
| size, color and whatever.
|
| Jesper, if you what to use my picture, you should apply the following
| patch.
|
| Cheers,
| Christoph
|
| --- MainWindow/Window.cpp       (revision 576279)
| +++ MainWindow/Window.cpp       (working copy)
| @@ -110,13 +110,13 @@
|        _deleteDialog( 0 ), _dirtyIndicator(0),
|        _htmlDialog(0), _tokenEditor( 0 )
|   {
| -    SplashScreen::instance()->message( i18n("Loading Database") );
| +    SplashScreen::instance()->message( i18n("Loading Database"),
| AlignRight );
|       _instance = this;
|
|       bool gotConfigFile = load();
|       if ( !gotConfigFile )
|           exit(0);
| -    SplashScreen::instance()->message( i18n("Loading Main Window") );
| +    SplashScreen::instance()->message( i18n("Loading Main Window"),
| AlignRight  );
|
|       // To avoid a race conditions where both the image loader thread
| creates an instance of
|       // Options, and where the main thread crates an instance, we
| better get it created now.
| @@ -223,7 +224,7 @@
|       setupPluginMenu();
|
|       if (
| Settings::SettingsData::instance()->searchForImagesOnStartup() ) {
| -        splash->message( i18n("Searching for New Images") );
| +        splash->message( i18n("Searching for New Images"), AlignRight  );
|           qApp->processEvents();
|           DB::ImageDB::instance()->slotRescan();
|       }
| Index: MainWindow/SplashScreen.cpp
| ===================================================================
| --- MainWindow/SplashScreen.cpp (revision 576279)
| +++ MainWindow/SplashScreen.cpp (working copy)
| @@ -33,18 +33,18 @@
|       resize( pix->size() );
|       QPainter painter( pix );
|       QFont fnt = font();
| -    fnt.setPixelSize( 24 );
| +    fnt.setPixelSize( 16 );
|       fnt.setItalic( true );
|       painter.setFont( fnt );
| -    QPen pen( white );
| +    QPen pen( QColor::QColor ( 0, 4, 174  ) );
|       painter.setPen( pen );
|       QString txt;
|       QString version = KGlobal::instance()->aboutData()->version();
|       if ( QRegExp( QString::fromLatin1("[0-9.-]+") ).exactMatch(
| version ) )
| -        txt = i18n( "KPhotoAlbum version %1" ).arg( version );
| +        txt = i18n( "Version %1" ).arg( version );
|       else
| -        txt = i18n( "KPhotoAlbum %1" ).arg( version );
| -    painter.drawText( QRect( QPoint(10, 400), QPoint( 630, 470 )),
| AlignRight | AlignBottom, txt );
| +        txt = i18n( "Version: %1" ).arg( version );
| +    painter.drawText( QRect( QPoint(120, 298), QPoint( 380, 314 )),
| AlignRight | AlignBottom, txt );
|   }
|
|   MainWindow::SplashScreen* MainWindow::SplashScreen::instance()
|
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