Hi Christian, On 30 May 2009, at 10:17, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
> Hi Gary, this looks good, though I wonder about the loss of the XO in > the center. The boot sequence was intended to establish the UI, and in > many ways the XO does signify the Sugar brand as much (more?) as the > logo. Suggestion: Could we not simply show the logo for a few seconds, > before transitioning into the current boot sequence? I'd hate to lose > the current sequence, I think it works very well, and Eben will attest > that much time was spent arriving at where we are today... Yes, agreed, the original boot up is very hard to beat (showing a child as central). Just bouncing ideas about here. My only criticisms of the original would be: 1) not liking the kid icon breaking into a rotating arrow treatment (seems too forced/smart, the whole XO icon is a stronger identity, appearing dots show progress just fine) 2) seemed odd for the dots to appear from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock (12 to 12 feels more natural to me) 3) lack of any colour (though this is tough to avoid breaking HIG iconography on colour use) Regards, --Gary > Christian > > > On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Gary C Martin > <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Just to get a basic, safe, default starting point in there, I've >> uploaded >> one simple treatment to: >> >> >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations >> >> Will try to upload a couple more tomorrow. >> >> Night, >> --Gary >> >> P.S. Should pull this back on list, your call Sean, but probably >> worth >> getting a couple more ideas up so that folks can input to some >> alternative >> treatments. >> >> On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote: >> >>> Christian, Eben >>> >>> I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an >>> outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, "celebrating" Sugar >>> interface.iconography and greeting children. >>> >>> I know nothing about the plymouth boot animator, but i deduce that >>> consecutively named files will do the trick >>> >>> I'm willing to attack this but before I try scraping screenshots, do >>> you guys have any interface assets i could grab? >>> >>> Input greatly appreciated >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Sean DALY <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Maybe we could work on it together? >>>> >>>> here's my idea.... like my booth rollup banner mockup which >>>> Christian >>>> 7 Eben both liked, I want to stay as much as possible within the >>>> Sugar >>>> HIG and iconography. >>>> >>>> >>>> boot should start with our logo ... smaller than in the previous >>>> SoaS >>>> ... (not sure yet if should be with or without "labs") >>>> >>>> The ring is iconic ... I want to keep a ring at boot... but >>>> instead of >>>> dots, I want XO avatars - kids! >>>> >>>> In the middle... each succeeding image with a colored Activity >>>> icon... >>>> matched to the corresponding XO avatar appearing in the ring. So >>>> kids >>>> understand that Activities are for them. >>>> >>>> And ending with... kids around the Journal! >>>> >>>> Alternate idea: cycling through the 12 logo color combos? >>>> >>>> Not mutually exclusive... logo could be on the bottom of ring >>>> >>>> What do you think? >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> >>>> Sean >>>> >>>> P.S. I've actually done something similar with a titling sequence >>>> for >>>> a short film. I started with the final image and wiped elements, >>>> backing down to the first image >>>> >>>> I use imagemagick a lot no problem to create a script which could >>>> inject arbitrary text into a ppm file >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gary C Martin <[email protected] >>>> > >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Hi Sean, >>>>> FYI, this came in off list. >>>>> Regards, >>>>> --G >>>>> >>>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>>> >>>>> From: James Zaki <[email protected]> >>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST >>>>> To: Gary C Martin <[email protected]> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen >>>>> I'm in touch with a design company who owes me a favour or two. >>>>> >>>>> I could get them to whip up some concept designs for inspiration? >>>>> >>>>> James >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2009/5/29 Gary C Martin <[email protected]> >>>>>> >>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Sebastian, Gary >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea >>>>>>> brewing for >>>>>>> awhile >>>>>> >>>>>> Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review. >>>>>> >>>>>> --G >>>>>> >>>>>>> What's the deadline please? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> thanks >>>>>>> Sean >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin >>>>>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi folks, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've >>>>>>>>> been >>>>>>>>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our >>>>>>>>> SoaS Yum >>>>>>>>> repo >>>>>>>>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly >>>>>>>>> rewritten, >>>>>>>>> and I >>>>>>>>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to >>>>>>>>> deal >>>>>>>>> with a >>>>>>>>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old >>>>>>>>> Sugar logo >>>>>>>>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny >>>>>>>>> (probably >>>>>>>>> with a progress bar). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing >>>>>>>>> there was >>>>>>>>> at >>>>>>>>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really >>>>>>>>> great if >>>>>>>>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of >>>>>>>> view if no >>>>>>>> one else steps forward. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So. When did you need it by? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software >>>>>>>>> release, >>>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file >>>>>>>>> structure: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of >>>>>>>> olpc.tar.bz2 it >>>>>>>> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the >>>>>>>> config >>>>>>>> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps >>>>>>>> the >>>>>>>> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the >>>>>>>> location >>>>>>>> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a >>>>>>>> dig in >>>>>>>> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering >>>>>>>> if this >>>>>>>> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the >>>>>>>> correct >>>>>>>> file names :-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>> --Gary >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>>> --Sebastian >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >> >> > > > > -- > [email protected] > > http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com > > 917/ 575 0013 _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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