Splash Screen Revisited

[Christian Stimming]

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