On 8/21/07, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-08-21 at 21:46 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > > > On 8/21/07, Quim Gil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That one, yes. Luca, you were almost as fast as Tuomas (via IM). :) > > > > > > Thanks! > > > > > > I'm writing few lines about it, since it was my first GNOME > > impression: > > > > > > "It was love at a first glance. In fact I got seduced even before > > > stepping in the desktop itself. That GDM splash with some old houses > > > had character, it was totally disruptive with any boot screen I had > > > seen before." > > > > Whoa, time-travelling. I recall that when I first used redhat 7.2 I > > also liked GNOME's look, still I don't know why... > > I recall something with a lighthouse, I think it was the splash screen > > also. Anybody knows where can I find that one? Is my memory ok? > > I remember the lighthouse thing too... Also around redhat 7.2 I > remember logging into GNOME and finding only a couple of items in the > panel and a feeling of "what do I do now?". I installed KDE then and it > was a lot more inviting, and I started hacking on Qt to fix its problems > rendering Persian... >
Yay! Found it on an rpm: ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/gnome-core-1.4.0.4-38.i386.rpm I uploaded the splash here: http://flickr.com/photos/diegoe/1208872531/ Maybe someone else wanted it as much as I did ;). Greetings!. -- marketing-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list
