OOo 3.0 Splash Screen Contest Result

Florian Effenberger has announced the result of the OOo 3.0 Splash Screen contest. There are 798 voters on this contest (quite a big number for something that only happened for one week).

The winner is Jacek Adamkiewicz: Proposal 3 which get 83 votes (not me). Don't assume that the next splash screen will be dominated by black color. Instead, the new splash screen gives you more color than 2.x splash screen. Congratulations to Jacek and please welcome the new splash screen for OOo 3.0 which will arrive in less than a month. Beautiful isn't it?

Vote for OpenOffice.org 3.0 Splash Screen

OpenOffice.org 3.0 will be released in September (planned) and it will have a new splash screen, as always like what we had also in OpenOffice.org 2.0 release. As it's build by the community, the community deserves to vote for the final splash screen being used on the application.

Here's how to do that. You look at the proposals being sent here. When you have done looking, open this URL to register your name and email address. You will get a confirmation email shortly and when you have, click on the URL given and you can start voting on your favorite splash screen.

Voting will end on Monday, August 18th, 2008 at 12:00 UTC+1 (06:00 AM Indonesian Western Time). Please vote wisely, as changing your vote afterward is not possible!

I have three candidates for it, but i have to pick one, so what must i say. I must choose the best among those three candidates.

What are you waiting for? Start your browser and give your votes for the OpenOffice.org Community

Customizing OpenOffice.org Splash Screen

One of the beauty of Open Source is the ability to hack into the codes and modifies it to suit our needs. One of the most popular Open Source project currently is OpenOffice.org. We are all waiting for their upcoming 2.4.0 release which should bring quite significant improvements over 2.3.1 (the current stable version). Meanwhile, the developer is busy working with the next major version of OpenOffice.org 3.0.

One of the most anticipated components of OpenOffice.org on every major release is the splash screen. Before OpenOffice.org 2.0 comes out, OOo team held a contest to pick the default splash screen which will be included in 2.x series and Brendan Whelan won the contest.

Andrew Z wrote on his blog about how to customize the OOo splash screen. If you don't like it, you can disable it or even remove it. Or, if you prefer to use other images, then you can replace the default splash screen with your own images.

With April Joke is coming, i think you can use this splash screen from KDE-Look project to fool your friends

Note: If you are using the default option, the progress bar will not be in the correct position. I tried to modify the sofficerc file and edit this line : ProgressPosition=10,213. Now the progress bar fits on the correct place (below the text).