On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 12:22 -0700, Joshua A. Andler wrote:
One of the complaints I've been seeing about the about dialog contest
is
that our list of credits is so long, and it's getting hard to design around.
It's called flowtext and creativity. ;) We've seen some great submissions which have worked around the amount of text. For example, the submission with a cruise liner was a very creative way for the text to be done.
I have two about screens in the queue myself for the contest that I've had no issues with too much text on. In fact, the text has been a healthy challenge to mine and others creativity.
It's only going to get longer with future releases.
Which is why I think this is definitely an issue for the next release at the earliest. Not now though... I really think that the amount of text is more than manageable for this release.
Sounds good...I've added this to the next release:
http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?Roadmap
Please add any notes to the above URL.
Maybe we could move the credits outside the splash image itself. What about e.g. a vertically scrolling sidebar? Any other ideas?
Thoughts?
I think that this would potentially be a good idea... just have a larger SVG within the about screen that can be scrolled. Since it's all rendered on the fly and we're looking at reworking some things, perhaps we'd also want to consider some way to pan and zoom the about screen as well...
In the end, animation will be the best way to do things once that is implemented. But the Q is what to do prior to that.
I dunno... I think it's fine as is for this release. Just my .02
Yeah, I think that the last few ideas you have will take a lot of work to implement. It might just be simpler to build the about dialog as a splash screen, and then just have the credits as a separate menu entry. I think it wouldn't hurt to also have release notes, known bugs, as separate entries as well. The about screen is the only thing that should be an SVG of these IMO. If we have examples and all this in SVG, that is going to take up a lot of space in the package. As it stands Inkscape's package is already growing ;) That sounds bad...
Cool...
Jon
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