Personally I felt after seeing the new splash screen I thought it looked brilliant but did feel the welcome screen detracted the freshness. It’s highly important that branding is consistent as this is the image of netbeans.
I vote not to wait and have this come in ASAP. > On 8 Jul 2018, at 00:41, Geertjan Wielenga > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I’ve been using the vote candidate 2 that Emilian announced yesterday and > am becoming convinced that the only really missing aspect is the rebranding > of the Welcome screen. It seems like a small thing but creates a big impact > to have the correct icons there too and we have such a pull request, only > we didn’t cherry pick to release90 branch. > > The links in the Welcome screen come from an external file that is at > netbeans.org that will be part of the 3rd donation. The point is that that > file can be edited externally, i.e., that’s not part of the Apache NetBeans > sources and can be updated anytime. For example, I added several news items > today and will update the Video link there too etc. > > So, the question is should we put together a new voting candidate so that > we can then include the updated/rebranded Welcome screen? Or should we wait > for more/other issues to be found first? Or do we not care that much about > the Welcome screen for this release? > > Any comments welcome, > > Gj --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] For further information about the NetBeans mailing lists, visit: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/NETBEANS/Mailing+lists
