Re: Ants in my pants [was Re: 1.0.3 soon? Put nice splash screen on Windows?]

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Jul 31 2002 - 07:52:25 EDT

  • Next message: Hubert Figuiere: "Re: 1.0.3 soon? Put nice splash screen on Windows?"

    > > On 31 Jul 2002, Martin Sevior wrote:
    > >
    > > > Date: 31 Jul 2002 19:57:09 +1000
    > > > From: Martin Sevior
    > > <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
    > > > To: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
    > > > Cc: abiword-dev@abisource.com
    > > > Subject: 1.0.3 soon? Put nice splash screen on
    > > Windows?
    > > >
    > > > On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 19:12, Hubert Figuiere
    > > wrote:
    > > > > Backport fix for bug 3802 (dom)
    > > > > CVS: Modified Files:
    > > > > CVS: Tag: ABI-1-0-0-STABLE
    > > > > CVS: ie_exp_XSL-FO.cpp
    > > > >
    > > > >
    > > >
    > > > Hi Hub,
    > > > There have been quite a few bug fixes applied to
    > > stable over the last
    > > > little while. Is it worthwhile to make a 1.0.3
    > > release with these
    > > > applied soon?
    > > >
    > > > It would also give us a chance to put the
    > > beautiful unix splash screen
    > > > on the Windows build instead of the huge 0.7 we
    > > have there now.
    > >
    > > The "0.7" issue has been taken care of and is a
    > > crappy excuse.
    > >
    > > Do it because we want consistant artwork across all
    > > platforms and because
    > > we are should not use the Sourcegear artwork.
    >
    > AFAIR we can't use Sourcegear artwork (ie, the
    > "official" splash screen). The best alternative is
    > the unix splash screen.

    AFAIR ...
    i know that too and have previously agreed that i probably misinterpreted
    earlier emails from people at sourceger

    ill try and dig out the email from Eric from the archives if i can, but i
    am not claiming that we are allowed use the sourcegear artwork but i seem
    to be unable to say that clearly, i just dont like the ant.

    i will have to also dig up the mail where a user said people were spooked
    by abiword grabbing the file associations and the icons changing to a
    picture of a bug (they did not see Abi the ant as a friendly mascot).

    The point i was trying to make was
    by all means use the unix splash screen
    (but i disagree with reason martin gave for using it)

    and on the seperate matter, can we get a replacement icon for windows that
    is not an Ant.

    at this point i hate that ant so much i am more than happy to go with the
    unix 48x48 scaled down to 32x32 even if it does look blocky and
    pixellated.

    Sincerely
    Alan



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