Gnome ArchLinux Splash Screen [UPDATED]

seba · 2003-12-09 13:05:30

I hope this logo can be the default for Gnome in ArchLinux :]

nifan · 2003-12-09 13:55:09

nice slapsh
but i've another question: how do we change the icons shown there? i mean the icons that shows whats being loaded. any hints?

kritoke · 2004-01-07 16:10:57

I don't know if it is just because it is new and nifty looking, but I think that looks better than your previous arch gnome splash screens. You ought to see if you can get Judd or someone to put your Gnome 2.4 splash screen in the graphics section of the website, btw, your old links to the previous splash screens are dead in this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=1332 .

Kritoke

rasat · 2004-01-07 18:17:16

Looks nice. Would it be possible to make one splash screen for KDE (kdm). I would like to add it in AL-AMLUG Live CD.

seba · 2004-01-08 07:04:15

kritoke wrote:

I don't know if it is just because it is new and nifty looking, but I think that looks better than your previous arch gnome splash screens. You ought to see if you can get Judd or someone to put your Gnome 2.4 splash screen in the graphics section of the website, btw, your old links to the previous splash screens are dead in this post: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=1332 .
Kritoke

the links are working now , i dont find the 2.2 splash screen, but now is 2.4 in current

seba · 2004-01-08 07:05:23

rasat wrote:

Looks nice. Would it be possible to make one splash screen for KDE (kdm). I would like to add it in AL-AMLUG Live CD.

hi, i think its possible, but i never maked a kde splash screen, its only a picture?

Moo-Crumpus · 2004-03-14 10:31:32

personally, I don't like it much, I beg your pardon, but hey, you asked for it ...

It is a good work for a beginner. If this is your first or third grafic, it's super. But, to be used as a 'business card' for arch, it has a kind of newbeeish finish, for my taste.

From desingers point of view, it is always a sin to use different fonts and font shemes (inverted, fat) in a grafic or document. If anyone could translate my words, 'Laufweite', 'Schriftschnitt', 'Kern' are the things you should have a look for. There seems to be no reason for that rock backround, more than that, it looks somehow old fashioned, doesn't it. When grafic apps learned to do backgrounds with tiles, this was used a lot. Let's say, 10 years earlier it would have been great. Nowadays, it is simply an error in taste to seriously use such a background, I am sorry ...
I think there is no need to shout out the desktop environments name and version number while starting it. Kde and gnome splash could look the same. The splash is for proud arch users, in first place. Which desktop env they run is secondary.

I would prefer it to be smooth and clear, smart and hip and a proof of tasty understatement.

Simply use archlinux' name and logo, maybe have the logo and / or name look somehow chrystalized. The font could have the look of smoky, grey glass. Or the gloss of black one. That would do for my taste. The background could be pale blue, with a white border line towards the buttom where the boot logos will appear...

Maybe I will try one for my own, now that I talked that big. I will have to learn gimp, first, or bring e-picture back on top of my desktop, in beos or windows ...

zeppelin · 2004-03-14 11:08:58

seba, I like what you did

galen · 2004-03-29 19:07:19

I dont use bloatware like gnome and kde

wakeupbomb · 2004-03-29 22:43:25

well I think it looks awesome

slacker · 2004-04-10 01:47:48

so where do we get it? is it included?

jf/ · 2004-05-12 05:41:36

galen wrote:

I dont use bloatware like gnome and kde

so what do u use? i would be interested to know. i'm primarily sticking to kde for "easy" and "already setup" reasons, and i havent actually had the time to go search out and try out "lightware", but... i really hope to be moving in the direction of "lightware" some time in the future.

yak8998 · 2004-05-12 11:23:47

I'm not a graphics designer by any means but I think it looks pretty professional, I like it.

And a good "lightware" GUI to try is fluxbox, its pretty easy to get the hang of

Mr Green · 2004-05-12 12:06:47

fluxbox is 8)

& you can use KDE/Gnome & fluxbox so you get the best of everything....

Give it go....you'll love it...

Mr Green

ravster · 2004-05-12 15:27:53

What about IceWM? Thats the one that I'm using.
Thing is that the config is to be done through config-files, fortunately there are progs that do this sort of stuff .
Oh, and it does'nt come with a file-manager :? , you have to get something like rox or xfe or something.

jf/ · 2004-05-12 17:09:16

ravster wrote:

Thing is that the config is to be done through config-files, fortunately there are progs that do this sort of stuff .

hm....

Oh, and it does'nt come with a file-manager :? , you have to get something like rox or xfe or something.

i think that's what a light wm is not supposed to do - that would be more of like an "environment".

ravster · 2004-05-12 23:18:41

Oh, I see.
Anyway, with arch, getting a file-manager is'nt difficult at all: xfe is in '/incoming' at the moment, so no worries.

link · 2004-06-29 04:30:19

I like this splash screen. Any chance we could get a 2.6 or a versionless version of it?

seba · 2004-08-25 22:27:17

Updated

cbozic · 2004-08-27 16:40:27

Looks even better than before. But, is the original still around? I like options.

TheRaginAsian · 2004-09-23 14:46:07

galen wrote:

I dont use bloatware like gnome and kde

WAYYYYY too punk rock for Gnome OR KDE...

Nice splash though by the way I like it a lot and will start using it.

KalephOne · 2004-09-23 21:28:41

It looks great - as soon as i get a new hd (my 40gb samsung went belly up...) i will use it

enderst · 2004-10-09 18:42:42

rasat wrote:

Looks nice. Would it be possible to make one splash screen for KDE (kdm). I would like to add it in AL-AMLUG Live CD.

http://kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=16858

iphitus · 2004-10-10 04:37:05

nifan wrote:

nice slapsh
but i've another question: how do we change the icons shown there? i mean the icons that shows whats being loaded. any hints?

Icons are from the currently set icon theme, if a program doesnt have an icon in the theme, it is then looked for in /usr/share/pixmaps/

As for the splash, it's okay
However I agree with PinkChick's criticisms.

valberg · 2004-11-03 16:12:38

I think it's great. And really can't see why it has to be that professional as some of you are talking about. I think it fits well in with archlinux, don't ask my why, i just do.

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