Re: Abiword splash-screen

On Mon, 18 Dec 2006, Ryan Pavlik wrote:

> Vinicius Depizzol wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm creating gnumeric splash-screen[1] so I would want some standard
> > for this. Can I create an abiword splash-screen too?
> >
> > [1] http://vdepizzol.wordpress.com/2006/12/16/gnumeric-artwork/
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> I've been handling artwork, including splash screens, for a while now.
> I actually have worked on a splash screen with similar Tango theming to
> the Gnumeric one you post for 2.6 (our next major release). Due to our
> great cross-platform (and cross-locale) nature, there are a few issues
> with using a very similar splash screen for AbiWord (written text that
> is not essential or cross-language, reference to GNOME, micro version
> number listed in art).

I'd be very surprised if Gnumeric didn't share those same requirements and
it would really be much better if you could avoid text in the graphics.
Certainly the GIMP frequently rejected splash screens with any text beyond
the name and number.

In any case splash screens are not shown for very long and users might not
have enough time to even read the text. Splash screen graphics are often
reused in About dialogs but in that case there would be seperate spaces
for version information and descriptions.

Sincerely

Alan Horkan

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Received on Wed Dec 20 00:16:56 2006