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GNOME 2.10 Splash Screen Contest Results

Submitted by thos on Fri, 2005-03-04 06:43. Gnome Art

The GNOME 2.10 splash screen contest is now closed. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries. In just a few days, we gathered more than 220 entries - a tribute to the popularity and success of GNOME. There were many high quality entries which made choosing a final splash screen very difficult. However, a decision had to be made, so, the splash screen chosen is.... here.

Some are just more profession

Submitted by Anonymous George on Sun, 2005-03-06 20:59.

Some are just more professional.

And yet I disagree. The simple screens by Dotis, Andy Fitzsimon, and Miroslav Strugarevic, are bland -- each one could be replaced with two lines of C code:

paint_with_bitmap(PREFERRED_DESKTOP_PATTERN);
draw_splash_message("Gnome Desktop");

(And in all three cases it's a good thing everyone who uses GNOME speaks English. Otherwise there might be some pesky internationalization problems.)

That leaves the second Fitzsimon desktop, scratchy -- you know, the one that looks like it's the result of some sort of decompression error in your image viewer -- and simon's Speedy Foot, which again touches the i18n problem but at least looks like a screenshot from that Van Halen video about selling Pepsi.

None of them are, to me, more obviously "professional". If professionalism is the goal, the current winner is better than four of these alternatives. Speedy Foot is as good as, if you don't care about color or i18n, but there's still nothing here that makes me feel like I've been hoodwinked.

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