Subject: Re: New Splash Screen?
From: Dom Lachowicz (dominicl@seas.upenn.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 26 2001 - 10:48:37 CDT
Quoting Alan <horkana@tcd.ie>:
> <rant>
> Abi the Ant
> and it even has its own (waste of space) page!
> http://www.abisource.com/pr_abi.phtml
> (image link broken, by the way. I have no intention of fixing it, after
> 2 years it aint "news")
Abi has her own home directory - see http://www.abisource.com/~abi/ and
IMNSHO, it is not a waste of space. I love the cute blue ant!
> I loathe the nasty little vermin, and i still want the orignal Abisource
> Artword, the swishy blue A and whatnot, very clean and stylish. How
> about an Official Build (is Mr Paul Rohr watching)?
> I dont like the new splash screen, but the Pen is very nicely drawn,
> perhaps if the artist took the pen and made it part of an orignal image
> rather than as an overlay to the existing one.
I love the little girl, and I also love the original Abisource artwork.
However, that is reserved for official builds, and we won't be doing any of
those in the near future, or at least until someone buys AbiSource from
Sourcegear. As for other artwork, the pen is nice, but it won't be going in
right now.
> If we are going to get really hung up on iconography then a typewriter
> would be more appropriate, its not like abiword can do anything like
> stroke to letter conversion that Microsoft Office XP now has (theres an
> ambitious project for someone, there is alreay a library called
> libstroke which might make a good starting point).
> </rant>
Hopefully abiword will do that too, shortly.
> Would it result in much speed loss if the Spash screen was dynamicall
> loaded from "splash.png"? This would allow people to customize with out
> a recompile.
RMS has been working on this, but I don't think that he's made much progress.
No one else cares enough to do it. Why don't you do it, Alan?
Later,
Dom
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