[Bf-committers] Does 2.8 deserve a different splash imagealready?

[Aaron Carlisle]

There was an email sent by Ton to the BF-interface mailing list:

https://lists.blender.org/pipermail/bf-interface/2017-April/000226.html

I think that this would be a good idea. The "Blender 2.8" text makes it
obvious what branch the build is.

Aaron Carlisle

Picture taker | Bit cruncher | Pixel pusher | Document writer | Artist
Project administrator for the Blender 3D Documentation Project

On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:57 AM, blendergit <blendergit at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes agree, I was thinking in something, as you said, as “under
> construction” to get a visual feedback. We can change during the
> development and use it to show new features.
>
> IMHO, from users point of view, they will "feel" are using a new version,
> not a “bug fixing” version of 2.78 and this will communicate 2.8 is not a
> simple improvement, but a new “experience”.
>
> Only a concern about space for these images in GIT.
>
> Antonio
>
>
> De: Mike Erwin
> Enviado: jueves, 8 de junio de 2017 16:43
> Para: bf-blender developers
> Asunto: Re: [Bf-committers] Does 2.8 deserve a different splash
> imagealready?
>
> How about something with an "under construction" theme, like a 90s website.
> A hint that it's pre-release.
>
> On Thu, Jun 8, 2017 at 10:05 AM blendergit <blendergit at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm only wanted to share a thought I have had during my long testing
> > sessions.
> >
> > During the test, sometimes I have to run in parallel version 2.78 and
> > version 2.80 and when you start dozens of times Blender is very annoying
> > (and prone to make mistakes) to review the version number to check if you
> > are running 2.78 or 2.80.
> >
> > I think we have done a lot of work in 2.8 and it deserves already a
> > different image for splash window and start to get a visual hint of what
> > version are you running.
> >
> > This is only an idea, maybe I'm totally wrong.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Antonio Vazquez
> >
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