Re: [ubuntu-art] Breaking the standards... splash images.

2006-03-15 Thread Denis Jacquerye
> Brant Watson wrote: > I know perhaps there were technical limitations, but how come all splash > images historically have been rectangular? The Gimp, OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome > (though the temp one in dapper has rounded edges), Azureus, etc... It > always annoyed me, but it seems that its a stan

Re: [ubuntu-art] Breaking the standards... splash images.

2006-03-15 Thread Mark Shuttleworth
Brant Watson wrote: I know perhaps there were technical limitations, but how come all splash images historically have been rectangular?  The Gimp, OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome (though the temp one in dapper has rounded edges), Azureus, etc...  It always annoyed me, but it seems that its a standard no

[ubuntu-art] Breaking the standards... splash images.

2006-03-15 Thread Brant Watson
I know perhaps there were technical limitations, but how come all splash images historically have been rectangular?  The Gimp, OpenOffice, KDE, Gnome (though the temp one in dapper has rounded edges), Azureus, etc...  It always annoyed me, but it seems that its a standard no one tries to break out