Splash screen too small for verbose languages #1064

The splash screen is too small for verbose languages like French. Maybe increasing its size or width would make sense (for an example see the screenshot, the complete string is in fact "Chargement de l'index des blocs" and this problem occurs with other strings. Bitcoin 0.6.0 on Ubuntu 10.04).

Yes, that happens in Dutch as well.

Problem is, I can't find the original (layered) image anymore. As we'd like to get rid of the splash screen eventually anyway (see #1028) designing a new one is too much bother.

I believe Samuel (on IRC) has been working on a new splash screen, as part of his GUI makeover attempts with tcatm.

As a last recourse, I'd propose the following image:

I tested several languages, with the default font size they all seem to fit nicely with this 250*194 image (aspect preserved).

I believe Samuel (on IRC) has been working on a new splash screen, as part of his GUI makeover attempts with tcatm.

I was sure tcatm was some sort of... script used by the team to retrieve translations and that it was a shorthand for Transifex CATalogue Manager. Uh-oh...

@cardpuncher Is your graphics a simple resize of the current one?

I was playing around with the splash screen graphics:

Based on: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oxygen480-status-wallet-closed.svg and https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/File:Bitcoin.png

Created by me with PhotoFiltre.

On 30/06/12 00:14, Philip Kaufmann wrote:

@cardpuncher Is your graphics a simple resize of the current one?

Yes, the image results from a quick resizing of the current JPEG with GIMP.

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.--Edward Abbey

I have to say I prefer the simple resize and wrap lines that don't fit instead of the new proposed one.

I still like the sharper version, but I'm completely fine with a resize of the current one. A line-wrap seems to be not possible for the QSplashScreen messages.

If you could line wrap, you dont need to scale it as much, so it wouldn't be as bad. http://lists.trolltech.com/qt-interest/2008-09/msg00453.html seems to indicate you can put html in there with style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "

I like the sharper one but it's too bling-y too my taste. Would make it look like a casino client. I don't use any gold on purpose in my graphics, for example also why I went with the more abstract orange coin instead of Satoshi's gold coin.

Line-wrapping sounds like a good intermediate idea until we get rid of the thing.

@laanwj I never got line-wrapping to work in the splash-screen + I would like to keep that screen (after some thoughts about it, I think it's a nice thing - which could just be improved). Perhaps we could add an abort button somehwere, like Office 2010 does in it's splash-screen?

Good idea. The problem really is that the initialization runs in the gui thread. So the window cannot react to events such as clicks right now.

@laanwj Can be closed, as our new splashscreen is bigger :).