[GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?

[Vaclav Petras]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:40 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>
wrote:

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>  On Jan 20, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Jan 17, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Vaclav Petras <wenzeslaus at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm not really concerned about splash screen but I think we should
> change the Welcome screen/window. My suggestion is to simply remove the
> picture and the sentence "Welcome to...open source GIS". This will save a
> lot of vertical space which will be great advantage for small screens, for
> example virtual box instances (the default screen size I got with
> VirtualBox and OSGeoLive was not enough to accommodate this window). The
> other reason why we need to save vertical space is actually a need to add
> more things. There is "one row" for error message but I would like to see
> this replaced by a block with info box for errors, warnings and general
> help messages (e.g., what to do next).
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>  IMHO, this kind of stuff does not belong on the spash screen. Errors and
> warnings (hopefully there are none) already show up in the terminal window,
> and we have help available on the main start up screen.
>
>  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 ugly just to accommodate tiny screens. It would be
> nice if there are any with graphic design expertise who could weigh in here.
>
>  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.
>
> 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 :-).

http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/manuals/grass_start.png
http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/manuals/helptext.html

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>  I hope to find some time to change this tomorrow before RC2 if there are
> no voices against. I will remove the picture (including its ISIS
> alternative) and the green (motto) text. I hope to find some good title
> text for this welcome/startup/setup screen/window.
>
>
>  Please do not mess with the splash screen until we’ve heard from others.
>
>  My 2 cents worth
>
>  Michael
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>  With this it could  be interesting to revise naming of the following page
> where filename, title and content don't match.
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> http://grass.osgeo.org/grass71/manuals/helptext.html
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 11:05 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > I agree with Bringing… rather than Opening…
> >
> > Bringing is better English and many people would not get the double
> meaning of Opening…
> >
> > I still like a map for the splash screen. Of the 2 logos you did, I
> think the white background looks classier.
> >
>  As I said, I'm more interested in changing page titles then the splash
> screen , however I like the idea of some simple splash screen. The white
> background image I did could be used in trac and in manual. I'm just not
> sure if it is ok that it is not text but image. For the manual it should be
> anyway replaced by something which contains version of GRASS and the name
> of the module (which should be manageable since page title tag contains the
> module name).
>
>  Vaclav
>
> > Michael
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 4:50 AM, Nikos Alexandris <
> nik at nikosalexandris.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 20.01.2015 11:38, Martin Landa wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 2015-01-20 6:18 GMT+01:00 Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu>:
> >>>>
> >>>> I like this one - I think it well represents what GRASS is.  (perhaps
> GRASS GIS?)
> >>>>
> >>>>> GRASS. Bringing advanced geospatial technologies to the world.
> >>>
> >>> +1
> >>>
> >>> Much more better than the current:
> >>>
> >>> The world's leading open source GIS
> >>
> >> What about
> >>
> >> "GRASS, opening advanced geospatial technologies to the world."
> >>
> >
> > I like more the "Bringing advanced..." than "Opening advanced..."
> because it has emphasis on features. Not everybody understands advantages
> of openness (yet).
> >
> > Note that it should be "GRASS GIS", not "GRASS" as much as possible.
> >
> > We can just create a image with logo+GRASS GIS+motto which could be used
> as splash and perhaps elsewhere too, for example in headers/titles of pages
> where we have just the logo and not name (Trac, manual). See attachment for
> suggestion.
> >
> > Vaclav
>
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