On Wed, 26 Mar 2008, Joost Verburg wrote:
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(...) I think that if you did some more tweaking on that splash screen
it'd get quite good. I hope you'll do so!
What about this one?
The copyright notice is less obvious now, I think that's good.
The version number is gone now, do we need it? (A drawback with having it
there is that we'd have to remember to change it in every release).
Without the version text, there's no clash with the similar fonts of
course.
There is something about it that doesn't feel as good as the first... I
can't exactly say why.
Bad in splash2 compared to 1:
* The first had a cleaner background which was nice, and somehow feels
more "generous"
The first was also nice without any borders or frames.
* There seems to be more vertical space beteween the 'T' and the 'P' in
the first splash, which looked better.
I tried some modifications:
* A mixture
* Text vertically aligned on the right
* Small copyright text
* Small version text
* I tried to make the stack of paper a
little more clear at the bottom
(the stuff at the top is an accident:-)
I uploaded the images to this wiki page:
http://wiki.lyx.org/LyX/SplashScreen
Some ideas/inspiration:
* http://www.photoshopnews.com/feature-stories/photoshop-splash-screens/
- various splash screens in Photoshop...
** I like it when they go ''outside'' the borders, that's cool.
I'm less fond of all huge amount of text...
** What they do in their laters splash scrrens is to illustrate what the
software can do. Maybe some formulas?
About the platypus, I like the idea of using something based on it, but in
the logo I think the beak is too narrow compared to the original- looks
too much like a bird. Anyway, that's more related to the logotype.
/Christian
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Christian Ridderström, +46-8-768 39 44 http://www.md.kth.se/~chr
