Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:15:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "J.D. Carroll, Jr." <jdc@fire-star.com> To: "Alexander Leidinger" <Alexander@Leidinger.net> Cc: Bartek Rutkowski <r@robakdesign.com>, freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd Gnome 2.12 Splashes Message-ID: <1698.192.168.0.233.1127164530.squirrel@www.onewizard.com> In-Reply-To: <20050919205324.24b35584@Magellan.Leidinger.net> References: <432EB4EE.60607@robakdesign.com> <20050919205324.24b35584@Magellan.Leidinger.net>
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I like splash3 but think the little guy should be RED to stand out, the blue background is nice, maybe put a small amount of flame around the letters to give it some dimension to it. Just my opinion on it. > On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 14:54:06 +0200 > Bartek Rutkowski <r@robakdesign.com> wrote: > >> Hi! >> >> I saw proposed splashes for freebsd gnome 2.12 and I was terryfied ;) As >> I am designer, and user of freebsd, I thought I can help with that. I > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > Don't say this too loud, some people may lure you into producing nice > designs for FreeBSD. :-) > >> have designed 3 clean&clear splashes, but keep in mind that I havent >> found any guidelines on 'what shoud splashsceen for fbsd gnome have', so > > I think the guidelines are: > - has to be related to gnome > - has to be related to FreeBSD (else we could use the default one) > - has to get a lot of "we want this one" messages on this list > - optional: has to visualize some kind of message (invent one) > > We don't want to put some limits on the creativity. ;-) > >> if you like it but it lacks of somethigns then give me some advices how >> to improve them. >> >> Here are the url`s for splashes: >> http://www.robakdesign.com/gnome/splash1.png >> http://www.robakdesign.com/gnome/splash2.png >> http://www.robakdesign.com/gnome/splash3.png > > Yikes! The little daemon is nice/cute/...! > > My personal taste: > - splash1 is a little bit color-less > + maybe use some kind of color (the FreeBSD red?) to set focal points > + maybe use a colored background > - splash2: the green background distracts > - splash3: can we have (semi-)lower-case characters for "ree"? > > Bye, > Alexander. > > -- > It's not a bug, it's tradition! > > http://www.Leidinger.net Alexander @ Leidinger.net > GPG fingerprint = C518 BC70 E67F 143F BE91 3365 79E2 9C60 B006 3FE7 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-gnome@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-gnome > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-gnome-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > !DSPAM:432f083e341735743487690! > >
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