[Scummvm-devel] Please give feedback on splash screen mockup

[Max Horn]

Am 08.06.2010 um 15:27 schrieb yotam barnoy:

> First I want to say that in general, this is a fine effort, and it
> would serve us very nicely.
> 
> However, were I to put on my picky hat -- which I am -- those yellowy
> flows, while cool, are foreign to us. They also don't reflect our
> general theme, which is a shame. Consistency makes the difference
> between a professional looking application and one that looks just put
> together from different pieces.

Agreed! Although we are not really very professional to boot with... :) But yeah, something that fits a bit more in with our various (differing!... ) website themes would be nice.

> Even with my picky hat though I like
> the Powered by www.scummvm.org bits and the cutouts there, though I'm
> not sure about capitalizing the URL.

I think I prefer it in all-lowercase :).

> 
> Would we be able to plop purple tentacle in the bottom right, like we
> do on the website, or would that be a no-no? If not, then at least we
> could do a monkey hanging down from the logo?

I would advice against this. The legal situation for these graphics is a bit, uhm, ambiguous. It's OK on our website were we can pull it any time should some copyright holder request it. But if we put this into binaries which we ship to thousand (millions?) of people, we can't easily take those pack, open up quite a nasty attack avenue for certain 3rd parties that want to annoy us. I'd not want to do that without some legal advice first, and so actually prefer not to do this at all.

We could certainly use graphics for which the copyright holders give us express permission.

Bye,
Max