Customize GIMP by hacking the GIMP Splash Screen
This is a trick i discovered by myself out of interest since i'm a GIMP fan, but a simple search had revealed that this trick has in fact been taught by others. Anyway, today i'll tell you how to change or in a professional-looking term, hack, the GIMP splash screen.
For those not being friends with GIMP, i must first show you how its splash screen looks like:
Now after doing some hacking you can get it to look extremely small like this:
Or this, which is the optimum size:
Or even large-sized Splash Screen, so gigantic, it even exceeds my monitor screen!
So how do we customize the Splash Screen? It's easy. Just navigate to the 'images' folder located in C:\Program Files\GIMP-2.0\share\gimp\2.0\images and identify the splash image 'gimp-splash'. Delete the image (make a backup if you intend to re-use the default splash screen) and replace it with some other PNG-extension image which are renamed to 'gimp-splash' (this is important, because GIMP only recognize a splash screen by this name). If there is something wrong with your hack, GIMP will start without the splash screen.
To enhance the customization experience, it is best for you to use an image which is at the original splash screen's default image size, 275x400. If you are good in graphic editing and image creations with Photoshop, GIMP, Paint.NET or other image editing tools, you can even create a custom GIMP splash screen with the GIMP logo on it!
Note: Do not worry that this customization will damage GIMP. The startup splash screen is intended to create some sign of activities for users of GIMP, so that users will know what is loading in the background; GIMP will work fine regardless of whether the splash screen is there or not!
3 opinion:
James, you know how to super compress a file? Not the compressed method used by winRAR or 7zip.
No i don't (it requires extensive technical knowledge on coding) but then why would you need to super-compress a file? There's a very high chance it'll lead to file corruption which is too risky a deal.
If you insist on making a super-compressed file, there's a utility called KGB Archiver that has been around for some time but then it is still in beta - until it is released as a stable version, i wouldn't recommend anyone on using it.
P.S: So far i only seen people applying super-compress file on OS & games (for example, the latest Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 comes at a maximum file size of 11 or 12 GB, but then with super compress, the size will be reduced to something like 3-4 GB. Same goes with OS).
I tried with KGB Archiver, it takes too long to compressed. Ok never mind. just curious only. Thks
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