splash screen

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Sat Apr 15 14:25:36 EDT 2006


So...  Do we REALLY need a new splash screen?
What's wrong with the one we have, and have been using for a while?

-derek

Quoting Thomas Baumgart <ipwizard at users.sourceforge.net>:

> Hi all,
>
> on Saturday 15 April 2006 16:20, Fabien COELHO wrote:
>
>> Dear Patrick,
>>
>> > Joking aside though ...  your observation is a perfectly reasonable
>> > argument against the background.  It does suggest you liked the
>> > variations on top of the bill better than those with the generic
>> > backgrounds.
>>
>> Yes and no. Having a background with bank notes is a good idea as far as
>> accounting is concerned, it should just be more world-friendly. Say one
>> bank note from each continent, all of them rather small and overlapping,
>> would be nice.
>>
>> See for instance :
>>
>> http://www.newsmotion.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/account
>> ing.jpg
>>
>> I'm not sure the image can be reused, but it is just the idea. Moreover
>> the spanish and french bank notes depicted do not exists any more since
>> the Euro.
>
> At KMyMoney, we had a similar approach:
>
> http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/kmymoney2/kmymoney2/kmymoney2/pics/startlogo.png?rev=1.5
>
>
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>
> Thomas Baumgart
>
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