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change icons, background, splashscreen etc. to the x-mas mood. Why ? It'll excite community, everybody likes 'special' editions. And everybody likes X-mas. We don't have to change everything, it's enought to change something... less is more sometime. It'll definitelly interest lot of people, they'll want to see X-mas NetBeans...
We should change at least the splashscreen. I think users will like it :-).
This is a pretty cool ideal. I like this a lot! What kind of work would have to go into this and would we have enough time to do such a thing before the holidays? I would love to see this happen if we can put together the resources...
If I correctly understand the proposal, it should be a regular q-build (perhaps marked as EA2?) with some xmas graphics and some announcements to attract people attention.
Well what I think some people would really appreciate would be a small Christmas game which would appear during the "Scanning classpath" dialog. Especially those who have really *large* projects. Maybe some shooting with snow balls (perhaps too demanding on CPU?) or Christmas version of Memory Match (Pexeso). What do you think?
Re "everybody likes X-mas": IMO, "everybody" is far from true. There are many cultures that don't celebrate Christmas at all. No objections to a special NB "Winter edition", but please: no Santa, Jezisek, Christmas trees, jolkas, gifts, etc.
Lukas, good idea .... I think the best one for last 4 years ;) Honza is right, but for English release we can expect users from "X-mas compatible" culture (more or less).
IMHO - any special edition will attract new users, winter or x-mas. I agree that winter is more generic. There isn't much time to do this so I think that we should change at least something in ui... And we should start with most visible parts of ide to awe everybody :) -installer - background -splashscreen -welcome screen - snowflakes falling from top ? -desktop icon -toolbar icons - with snow hat ? -mouse cursor, progress dialog, etc. - it seems unrealistic/undoable to me, just note
Bear in mind that the winter edition should go out on July 21 in the southern hemisphere. Hmm, we could do "xmas edition"; just throw in "Ramadan edition", "Chanukkah edition" (given the timing, we would need an "Are you Jewish?" checkbox on the download page and substitute a different branding bundle...). We could throw in L. Ron Hubbard's birthday for the Scientologist developer community... Actually, I think we're enough past the age of hyper-political-correctness (that is, that style of political correctness has sufficiently discredited itself) that a christmas edition is a perfectly reasonable thing to do - you just position it in the form "A lot of our developers celebrate christmas, and wanted to do something special, so this week's download is a little different. If this bothers you, click here for the regular build." Celebrating something != denigrating something else, which was the core of the foolishness that underlay political correctness.
I completely agree with Tim.
Created attachment 19144 [details] how do you like these toolbar icons
Created attachment 19145 [details] winter toolbar icons
Created attachment 19159 [details] snowing - place the jars to nb41/locale dir (from M.Ryzl)
Created attachment 19173 [details] Snowing over welcome page - new module (source) plus patch of nbbuild build scripts
cc'ing Ruda and going attach more sources - welcome page and splash screen i'll add changed 'scanning classpath' progress bar tommorow (i hope) I'll change nbbuild/build.xml before wednesday q-build to include all the changed stuff in the q-build and if everything goes fine (= no problems because of x-mas changes) it'll be merged/commited into q-build branch all changes will be let known here before they are integrated into q-build branch
Created attachment 19265 [details] splash screen
Created attachment 19266 [details] welcome screen
I forgot to note - Winter is too long to have a winter edition. This special edition will be released before X-mas and it'll be called X-mas edition. I agree with Tim: "Celebrating something != denigrating something else" = why dont' we have a ramadan, new year, chanuka, Songkran ? ... there is place for everybody - go and do it !
done. NB4.1 has special X-mas edition and is downloadable as first nb4.1 qbuild. Changes and actions in X-mas edition: -new splashscreen, welcome screen, toolbar icons -snowing over welcome screen - all sources in contrib/xmas2004 -announced on nbusers and nbdev -news on netbeans.org I'm looking forward for next special edition ;) thanks to anybody who helped.
Well done :-) Verified.
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