Unless some new showstopper bugs are found, I think pre4 should be OK to release as 0.44. There's one thing to be done before that, however. I really don't like the new About screen. I think it's below the level of quality we've established in past versions. Am I alone in that? Andy said he would work on a new one - is there any progress on that?
bulia byak wrote:
Unless some new showstopper bugs are found, I think pre4 should be OK to release as 0.44. There's one thing to be done before that, however. I really don't like the new About screen. I think it's below the level of quality we've established in past versions. Am I alone in that? Andy said he would work on a new one - is there any progress on that?
I like the concept, but it doesn't feel complete to me. It does seem like we've had more and more visually interesting about screens as time has gone on too. So yeah, I'd either like to see more done to it or something more "engaging" as a whole.
-Josh
bulia byak wrote:
Unless some new showstopper bugs are found, I think pre4 should be OK to release as 0.44. There's one thing to be done before that, however. I really don't like the new About screen. I think it's below the level of quality we've established in past versions. Am I alone in that? Andy said he would work on a new one - is there any progress on that?
As for the About screen, on 0.44pre4, there seem to be some discrepancies between the authors and translators as listed in About box and names in the AUTHORS and TRANSLATOR files.
Maybe the About box has been left unchanged from 0.43?
- Spyros Blanas
On Jun 13, 2006, at 10:54 PM, Spyros Blanas wrote:
As for the About screen, on 0.44pre4, there seem to be some discrepancies between the authors and translators as listed in About box and names in the AUTHORS and TRANSLATOR files.
Maybe the About box has been left unchanged from 0.43?
- Spyros Blanas
I *just* committed a patch tonight covering the about box and the TRANSLATORS file. Not sure about AUTHORS though
Jon A. Cruz wrote:
On Jun 13, 2006, at 10:54 PM, Spyros Blanas wrote:
As for the About screen, on 0.44pre4, there seem to be some discrepancies between the authors and translators as listed in About box and names in the AUTHORS and TRANSLATOR files.
Maybe the About box has been left unchanged from 0.43?
- Spyros Blanas
I *just* committed a patch tonight covering the about box and the TRANSLATORS file. Not sure about AUTHORS though
Hm, running a diff, I found out that these names are in the AUTHORS file but not in the About box: Marco Scholten
- Spyros Blanas
Spyros Blanas <sblanas@...400...> writes:
Jon A. Cruz wrote:
I *just* committed a patch tonight covering the about box and the TRANSLATORS file. Not sure about AUTHORS though
Hm, running a diff, I found out that these names are in the AUTHORS file but not in the About box: Marco Scholten
Yep, that was also in the patch and is in SVN now.
Cheers, Colin
hows this ?
On 6/14/06, bulia byak <buliabyak@...400...> wrote:
Unless some new showstopper bugs are found, I think pre4 should be OK to release as 0.44. There's one thing to be done before that, however. I really don't like the new About screen. I think it's below the level of quality we've established in past versions. Am I alone in that? Andy said he would work on a new one - is there any progress on that?
-- bulia byak Inkscape. Draw Freely. http://www.inkscape.org
On 6/14/06, Andy Fitzsimon <andyfitz@...400...> wrote:
hows this ?
A little better, but still clumsy. The version and name are too big. The colors are "default" - grass is boring green, sky is boring blue. The worst part is that the idea of making it "realistic", representing some real world setting, does not work. The objects are too cartoonish and crude, and it's hard to figure out what is depicted.
Why can't you take the original funkymasks file that you showed me some months ago - more abstract, more finely and more inventively chopped by clips, without any grass? And just add some very simple and small name & version to it?
At this point I've started toying with some new ideas -- I think the most promising one so far has been a lady with headphones sitting on a couch and using Inkscape on a tablet PC.
I've attached roughs for three of the compositions I've explored -- a pretty standard view straight-on to the couch (inkscape logo on framed poster on wall behind), a perspective view from the far end of the couch (inkscape logo superimposed in a corner, not part of the actual scene), and an over-the-shoulder view (inkscape logo onscreen).
Stylistically, the goal wouldn't be photorealism, but something just a notch up from cel shading. Just enough stylization to make the vectory feel look deliberate.
Thoughts before I pursue this further?
-mental
just hacked away at it some.
will do some more when i get home.
On 6/20/06, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jun 2006 18:13:17 +1000, "Andy Fitzsimon" <andyfitz@...400...> wrote:
tag!
Interesting. I was thinking natural rather than incandescent lighting. I'll do up a few color studies for comparison.
-mental
update.
pulling yours down now
On 6/23/06, MenTaLguY <mental@...3...> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 18:34 +1000, Andy Fitzsimon wrote:
just hacked away at it some.
Hmm. I'm not really keen on the posture/pose.
How about the attached?
(I'm not worrying about colors too much yet, so don't take the colors I used here as strong suggestions)
-mental
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On Tuesday 13 June 2006 18:41, bulia byak wrote:
I really don't like the new About screen. I think it's below the level of quality we've established in past versions. Am I alone in that?
I agree with you, and I'll add that I can't see the connection with a drawing application, let alone Inkscape. It looks like a splash for some kind of audio mixing app or media player. So I don't see how it could be improved while keeping the same subject.
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Andy Fitzsimon -
bulia byak -
Colin Marquardt -
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Jon A. Cruz -
Joshua A. Andler -
MenTaLguY -
Spyros Blanas