<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Some GIS splash screens:<br><br><a href="http://words.mixedbredie.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/qgis01.jpg">http://words.mixedbredie.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/qgis01.jpg</a><br><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o-bL_x1YHAU/Uzl1Fr12ccI/AAAAAAAAHWs/RHem7hUjGFU/s1600/valmiera.png">http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-o-bL_x1YHAU/Uzl1Fr12ccI/AAAAAAAAHWs/RHem7hUjGFU/s1600/valmiera.png</a><br><a href="http://live.osgeo.org/_images/kosmo_splash_screen.png">http://live.osgeo.org/_images/kosmo_splash_screen.png</a><br><a href="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-qSzNjsg2KI/SkZyn9u7yNI/AAAAAAAACAk/muhRFmiIL7c/s400/splash.png">http://lh5.ggpht.com/_-qSzNjsg2KI/SkZyn9u7yNI/AAAAAAAACAk/muhRFmiIL7c/s400/splash.png</a><br><a href="http://www.processamentodigital.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/QGIS26_Splash.png">http://www.processamentodigital.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/QGIS26_Splash.png</a><br><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b8ANhhOsL_Y/TObU5L2e6pI/AAAAAAAAAMs/QcMiUFtJiGc/s1600/qgis16.png">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_b8ANhhOsL_Y/TObU5L2e6pI/AAAAAAAAAMs/QcMiUFtJiGc/s1600/qgis16.png</a><br><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--hIILBxlAEg/VCAbutt6u6I/AAAAAAABy0A/LFPmp7KQNbo/s1600/beegis_splash.bmp">http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--hIILBxlAEg/VCAbutt6u6I/AAAAAAABy0A/LFPmp7KQNbo/s1600/beegis_splash.bmp</a><br><a href="http://cartolab.udc.es/cartoweb/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Clean_buffer_splash.png">http://cartolab.udc.es/cartoweb/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Clean_buffer_splash.png</a><br><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tB80BWUKX-I/VCAbbDliO_I/AAAAAAAByzw/W0LMaL1Q86A/s1600/splash.bmp">http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tB80BWUKX-I/VCAbbDliO_I/AAAAAAAByzw/W0LMaL1Q86A/s1600/splash.bmp</a><br><br><br></div>From the legions of marketters...<br>-------------------<br><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t-KVH1Loht8/T1T-N_e6_JI/AAAAAAAAFQM/5HHErdym1G0/s320/prerelease.png">http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-t-KVH1Loht8/T1T-N_e6_JI/AAAAAAAAFQM/5HHErdym1G0/s320/prerelease.png</a><br><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_csZhg8ZmSWM/TCrT_DMRzdI/AAAAAAAABks/06siJHptxTo/s1600/ArcGIS+10+splash.PNG">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_csZhg8ZmSWM/TCrT_DMRzdI/AAAAAAAABks/06siJHptxTo/s1600/ArcGIS+10+splash.PNG</a><br><a href="http://www.geocap.no/sites/default/files/imagecache/storyimgsub/splash-01.png">http://www.geocap.no/sites/default/files/imagecache/storyimgsub/splash-01.png</a><br><a href="http://sartechnology.ca/sartechnology/IncidentCommander_SplashScreen2.jpg">http://sartechnology.ca/sartechnology/IncidentCommander_SplashScreen2.jpg</a><br><a href="http://civilsuite.com/splash_backdrop.jpg">http://civilsuite.com/splash_backdrop.jpg</a><br><br><br>Some splashs from apps related to mapping <br>----------------------<br><a href="http://www.avenza.com/sites/default/files/images/pdfmaps-header-gwf2.png">http://www.avenza.com/sites/default/files/images/pdfmaps-header-gwf2.png</a><br><a href="http://www.mapitfast.com/images/MapItFast_Splashscreen.jpg">http://www.mapitfast.com/images/MapItFast_Splashscreen.jpg</a><br><a href="http://images.spatiallyadjusted.com/ArcGIS-for-iOS-Splash.PNG">http://images.spatiallyadjusted.com/ArcGIS-for-iOS-Splash.PNG</a><br><br><br></div>"Welcome screens" returned this...<br><a href="http://d32ogoqmya1dw8.cloudfront.net/images/eet/pmel/my_world_welcome_550.jpg">http://d32ogoqmya1dw8.cloudfront.net/images/eet/pmel/my_world_welcome_550.jpg</a><br><a href="http://gtispk.com/images/temp/post_img_big_27_1.jpg">http://gtispk.com/images/temp/post_img_big_27_1.jpg</a><br><br><br><div><br><br><div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 21 January 2015 at 10:42, Michael Barton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Michael.Barton@asu.edu" target="_blank">Michael.Barton@asu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<div>The splash is an entry—and an advertisement—for GRASS. Looking nice is actually important, but especially for a piece of high end visual software. I don’t think we should make the first view that people have when they start GRASS be boring or
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<div>The splash screen is replaced shortly by the (much more prosaic) main start up screen anyway. So why not keep it something that has visual appeal.</div>
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<div>Sorry for the confusion. I'm speaking about welcome/start/setup/ window which actually appears *before* the splash screen and it has an old school picture which just eats vertical space. See the following links (or start GRASS :-).<br>
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</span><div>OK. I was talking about the Medieval map, which was the start of the thread. I’d suggested the first real world map, with some welcome text. Even better would be doing something with visual impact with a historic map or some other display (we already have
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<div>Your nice green lettering on a light background would give it a nice clean look. FWIW, it would be classy to have the entire dialog an equally lighter shade too, with green or dark grey lettering in a nice font for the text outside of the wxPython control
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