Based on other people's answers, I think the answer is Yes, we are still interested in an updated splash screen.
-derek Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thanks for your reply. > > I actually updated it before you sent this email to include other > currencies, having read the discussion more thoroughly. > > I guess what I want to ask is, are you interested in any further > development of this splash screen and other logo stuff by me? If so, > I'll be glad to do so, and work to make it something that really fits. > Otherwise, I'll work on other things. > > Just let me know, and if so I'll post some updates for discussion to the > list. > > JF > > Christian Stimming wrote: >> Am Samstag, 6. Mai 2006 08:40 schrieb Joshua Facemyer / Impressus Art: >> >>> I was looking on the wiki for things to help with and I saw art as one >>> of the options. >>> >>> I wondered what art needs work. >>> >>> I've read the previous comments about splash screens, and thought I'd >>> offer one. >>> >>> www.impressusart.com/download/gnucash_splash.png >>> >>> It's in keeping with the current one's design, but different. >>> >> >> Interesting. Thanks a lot for this new proposal. However, as Chris already >> has >> pointed out, there are some suboptimum things here: Just as Chris, I first >> thought this pen to be a knife... it should be much more clear that this is >> a >> pen. Perhaps more something like a stylograph. >> >> Also, although your "logo" looks very nice, you've just encoutered once >> again >> the ever-returning internationalization vs. currency symbol issue. In other >> words, the '$' simply is only the currency symbol for USD and *not* for >> currencies in general or money in general. Gnucash, on the other hand, is >> specifically targeted towards any currencies and not at all limited to or >> emphasizing USD currency. This means any kind of logo and/or splash screen >> *must not* use USD as a single/predominant currency. Or Euro, or Yen, or >> Pound, for that matter... Just as a general rule: If it should be truly >> international, don't use a single currency symbol. >> >> And something that I think can still be improved for the "main part" of your >> splash screen picture: You don't show anything that is particular to gnucash >> in any way. That's something that was done well in the 1.8 splash screen: It >> contained the pie charts as a representative for the diagrams, and an >> account >> register. Perhaps a new splash screen should still try to include those two >> elements somewhere. >> >> Thank you very much for your contribution in any case. >> >> Regards, >> >> Christian >> > > _______________________________________________ > gnucash-devel mailing list > gnucash-devel@gnucash.org > https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel > > -- Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/ PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list gnucash-devel@gnucash.org https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
