Splash Screen Revisited

[Derek Atkins]

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 <faceman at impressusart.com> 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
>>   
>
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