Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-07 Thread David Neary
Tomas Mraz wrote: > And what about the About image? Given that there are so many splash > contest entries couldn't be some one of them used as background for > About? Oooh - we have a troublemaker. Dave. -- David Neary, Lyon, France E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CV: http://dneary

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-07 Thread Tomas Mraz
And what about the About image? Given that there are so many splash contest entries couldn't be some one of them used as background for About? -- Tomas Mraz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Gimp-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-07 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Greg Rundlett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I agree that it is trivial to add an opaque region to the bottom of > an otherwise excellent image. Sure. But simply adding some opaque region will ruin any otherwise excellent image. The point here is that the splash image should have been designe

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I see that two entries have 3 votes so far on the www.mokund.org site: One with grass and the a triple self protrait mock up. Are there any trademark problems with the mock up of Rockwell's Triple Self Portrait? (I'd strongly suggest favoring originality over adaptation, anyway. The same woul

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Greg Rundlett
Steve Stavropoulos wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: - useable as a splash It needs to have a blank or very low-contrast area at the bottom that is large enough to hold the progress texts we show at startup. Large enough even for a slightly larger font. Unfortunately not

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, Steve Stavropoulos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Because there are some very _very_ nice ones that don't have the > area at the bottom, maybe this shouldn't be a reason to reject them, > if it is trivial to add such an area. I think the purpose is to have > a great splash for gimp 2.2 and we

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Michael Schumacher
William Skaggs wrote: Since painting a solid or nearly solid rectangle on the bottom is quite an easy operation, a splash candidate would not necessarily need to be rejected on this basis. I feel that this is worth mentioning because several of the most popular candidates have this problem. If th

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread William Skaggs
Sven wrote: > The winning splash should be > > [ . . . ] > > - useable as a splash > > It needs to have a blank or very low-contrast area at the bottom > that is large enough to hold the progress texts we show at > startup. Large enough even for a slightly larger font. Since pain

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Steve Stavropoulos
On Mon, 6 Dec 2004, Sven Neumann wrote: > - useable as a splash > > It needs to have a blank or very low-contrast area at the bottom > that is large enough to hold the progress texts we show at > startup. Large enough even for a slightly larger font. > > > Unfortunately not all

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Sven Neumann
Hi, there are a few more criterias for a splash that haven't been mentioned yet. The winning splash should be - international Thus it must not show any text besides "GIMP 2.2". - useable as a splash It needs to have a blank or very low-contrast area at the bottom that is large

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi all, Quoting Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:42:10PM +0100, David Neary wrote: > > I have no objections as long as people are happy with this. I > > would be a little worried about some splashes not getting a fair > > whack because they were submitted late, but su

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Tino Schwarze
On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 02:32:59PM +0100, Dave Neary wrote: > > > I have no objections as long as people are happy with this. I > > > would be a little worried about some splashes not getting a fair > > > whack because they were submitted late, but sure, why not. > > > > > > When do you think it w

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Dave Neary
Hi, Quoting Roman Joost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:42:10PM +0100, David Neary wrote: > > I have no objections as long as people are happy with this. I > > would be a little worried about some splashes not getting a fair > > whack because they were submitted late, but sure,

Re: [Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-06 Thread Roman Joost
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:42:10PM +0100, David Neary wrote: > I have no objections as long as people are happy with this. I > would be a little worried about some splashes not getting a fair > whack because they were submitted late, but sure, why not. > > When do you think it would be fair to ca

[Gimp-developer] Judging panel for splashes

2004-12-04 Thread David Neary
Hi all, The judging panel for the splash contest is Simon Budig, Alan Horkan, Michael Schumacher, Joao Bueno and Adam Moss. Since they were in the first 5 but aren't in the final panel, if there is a need (for whatever reason) for a replacement judge, the replacements are Joseph Heled and Roman Jo