Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-15 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 18:43:23 +, alex [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Maybe the earlier splash images were only distributed in GIF format, but then they moved to PPM after Burn All GIFs? Just a guess. The splash images have always been PPMs. You can retrieve all of them (at least since 1.00) from

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Garry R. Osgood
Adrian Likins wrote: snipped... the baloon, the rocket, or the new one are my faves for 1.2. I really like the newest one. Nice work. Adrian The magical quality of 1.4 is hard to beat. It reminds me of Bilbo Baggins: "The road goes ever onward..." The latest is very good too,

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Raphael Quinet
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, "Garry R. Osgood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest is very good too, but the bristles are pointing the wrong way (they would point *into* the ink blot as the brush pushes to the left). I guess this bothers my boring and literal mind. Good catch! Actually, it is even

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000, Adrian Likins wrote: the baloon, the rocket, or the new one are my faves for 1.2. I really like the newest one. Nice work. Adrian I gotta say, the newest one is definitely my favorite so far. The baloon was nice, but this one looks really polished, and

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Carey Bunks
the baloon, the rocket, or the new one are my faves for 1.2. I really like the newest one. Nice work. Adrian I gotta say, the newest one is definitely my favorite so far. The baloon was nice, but this one looks really polished, and professional, but fun at the same

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Kelly Lynn Martin
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000 09:45:50 -0800 (PST), Arcterex [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I personally like both the balloon and brush image. Maybe both can fit in somewhere? I understand I'm just a lurker here and have no real clout, but maybe one can be the splash (I'm thinking balloon) and the brush one

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Glyph Lefkowitz
On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Carey Bunks wrote: Glyph, I have to say that my sentiments are just the opposite of yours. Although the latest splash (with the brush) is nice and traditional looking, I find it has little identity and little character. On the other hand I feel that the balloon splash

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Uwe Koloska
On Don, 13 Jan 2000 wrote the famous Carey Bunks: Don't you think, though, that it would be good if the GIMP had an identity? I think the marketing types call it something like "branding"...an image that when folks see it they say, "oh yeah, that's the GIMP". If the splash is always changing,

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Michael J. Hammel
Thus spoke Carey Bunks Don't you think, though, that it would be good if the GIMP had an identity? I think the marketing types call it something like "branding"...an image that when folks see it they say, "oh yeah, that's the GIMP". If the splash is always changing, I think it will just

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Michael J. Hammel
Thus spoke Tom Rathborne Right now I think Wilber only shows up in the "Tip of the day" box. I think he should be on the splash screen, on the about page, and perhaps even in the help files. If the help files will be based on GUM, which I imagine is a very structured document, maybe we could

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Fri, Jan 14, 2000 at 01:13:31AM +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote: Carey is right with the branding! Photoshop is known by it's eye, corel draw by it's balloon (so maybe the balloon isn't very well suited for the gimp), Illustrator by the venus and so on. Corel's balloon is just boring. It's got

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-13 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Thu, Jan 13, 2000 at 01:15:54PM +0100, Raphael Quinet wrote: On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, "Garry R. Osgood" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The latest is very good too, but the bristles are pointing the wrong way (they would point *into* the ink blot as the brush pushes to the left). I guess this

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-12 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Sunday, 9 Jan 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 05:08:26PM +0100, "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that means quality loss (original where 256 colors only?), and I am looking Yes, quality loss in many cases... for the PPM, not

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-12 Thread Tuomas Kuosmanen
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:24:09PM +, Austin Donnelly wrote: On Sunday, 9 Jan 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 05:08:26PM +0100, "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that means quality loss (original where 256 colors only?), and I am

Re: Thanks (Re: Gimp splash images)

2000-01-12 Thread Adrian Likins
On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 03:15:55PM -0800, Tuomas Kuosmanen wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2000 at 10:24:09PM +, Austin Donnelly wrote: On Sunday, 9 Jan 2000, Marc Lehmann wrote: On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 05:08:26PM +0100, "Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: