Hi, I might be a bit late here but the topic is of importance to me. I personally don't want netbeans to go down the windows metro look just because everyone else is doing it.
To summarize people here can be divided into following opinion groups: * Those who like the old colorful and vibrant splash screens * Those who like "modern" flat, single color designs, mainly to promote netbeans as modern * Those who want it to be "netbeans" instead of "NetBeans", or the middle ground of "Netbeans" * Those that want the Apache feather Based on these constraints I have come up with some splash screens at https://github.com/SiddheshRane/apache-netbeans-9.0-spash/ I'm fully in favour of crowd sourcing designs and the community voting for it. I feel more emphasis must be placed on netbeans being an apache project rather than some cosmetic changes to indicate modernity. Regards Siddhesh Rane
