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

[Vaclav Petras]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Blumentrath, Stefan <
Stefan.Blumentrath at nina.no> wrote:

>  Just a word of caution: Not long ago (2011 (
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2011-August/015791.html)
> or 2013 (
> http://lists.osgeo.org/pipermail/qgis-developer/2013-May/026008.html))
> the QGIS-project had a (long) logo discussion too.
>
> Quite some resources were used (in terms of developer- and user-time) on
> creating logo proposals and polls (a kind of logo-contest in several
> rounds) as well as discussing proposals in several threads. At the end – if
> I am not mistaken – the project ended up with using more or less the old
> logo…
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>

Thanks for the warning. I agree that we should not spend much resources on
it but we should spend some. It is impotent to note the difference to QGIS
2.0 logo change. We are not changing the logo but just the design of splash
and startup screen (and perhaps layer manager?). These are things which can
change anytime but before release it is a good time to change it and in
fact we are not changing graphical things often, so it is worth to think
this through.

Anyway, I don't think that we need to discuss Vincent's cleaned version of
the logo (it's just a technical change).

For the splash screen we need something nice but I think it should be
something simple too because the time you actually see splash is short. For
this reason I consider the world with grass all over as unnecessary
complicated.

The startup screen is more important I think but on the other hand, there
should be just something very simple. Simple think will not obsolete and
will not get old so fast. To the suggestions at the wiki, if I remember
correctly we can have both, transparent for light and white for dark, the
only question is how to decide (in Python) that it is dark (e.g., compare
brightness of system text and background). So we can try that and change it
later if it does not work.

Overall, I like all Vincent's suggestions at
http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Identity and once Vincent feels confident
(and technical issues such as font are solved) I would go ahead and vote
(if it is even necessary to vote, I don't know).

Thanks Vincent and others, it looks great so far!
Vaclav

 Cheers
>
> Stefan
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> *From:* grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org [mailto:
> grass-dev-bounces at lists.osgeo.org] *On Behalf Of *Paulo van Breugel
> *Sent:* 28. januar 2015 16:48
> *To:* Michael Barton
> *Cc:* GRASS developers grass-developers
>
> *Subject:* Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?
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>
> Good initiative.. For a decision to be taken (if there are enough quality
> proposals for the tagline, logo and the splash screen), would it be an idea
> to invite GRASS users to vote (as was already proposed before - so perhaps
> something is already in place)? A simple/easy way could be a poll on the
> GRASS GIS Google+ page, and people could be invited via the email list.
> Anyway,just though it could be nice to get 'the user community' to pick
> from a selection.
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> On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:26 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu>
> wrote:
>
>  Thanks Vincent. This is conceptually along the lines I was thinking, but
> better thought out and presented by you.
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> The image on the splash screen should follow the same logic: display the
> logo and tag line, use the color green, and visually reinforce the message
> in the tag line.
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> So far, the tag lines proposed have all included the concepts of GIS or
> digital mapping ("geospatial technology") and universality (“world",
> “everyone").
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>
> Michael
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>  On Jan 28, 2015, at 7:36 AM, grass-dev-request at lists.osgeo.org wrote:
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> *From: *Vincent Bain <bain at toraval.fr>
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> *To: *grass-dev <grass-dev at lists.osgeo.org>
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> *Date: *January 28, 2015 at 7:36:41 AM MST
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> *Subject: **Re: [GRASS-dev] New splash screen for GRASS GIS 7?*
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> Hi,
> I packed most of the graphical tests I did last week on a wiki page. I
> tried to initiate a place (very rough yet) where we can further set up
> things concerning graphical identity. Hope this helps.
>
> http://grasswiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Identity
>
> Vincent.
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