On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt < [email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry, meant to reply-all! Comment below: > > On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Martin Dengler <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote: > >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo > >> > >> Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too > >> closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is > >> possible (networks being connected to at startup?) > > > > The rays are too dominant, IMHO. The circles suffer from the > > confusion you mention, and the dots (gray) are just right. > > I agree--the rays don't feel like they are part of the same visual > language as the rest of the UI, since they break the square grid that > other icons succumb to. I'm not sure about the confusion regarding the > color circles and access points; maybe we should ask around and see > what other people think? Maybe we could also just choose a single > color (the colors you have set for your XO) to avoid any confusion. > Otherwise, I'm also perfectly happy sticking to gray dots, and > coloring the XO as I mentioned earlier. I agree about the rays not feeling like the fit. It feels like its not part of Sugar. I haven't been following carefully but my favorite idea was grey dots getting colored in as you go. > > > > > >> Re splash page with logo: in my next mockup I'll leave off the example > >> school logo.and move that frame to the end. It might be better to > >> "reserve" a frame for customizable logo or message, before or after > >> the Sugar spash page > > > > I think that information is great to work in, but it won't be too > > visible (thus useful) in just one frame, will it? > > > >> Version info: In fact I feel strongly about showing version > >> information...or its corollary, making it easy to find. > > > > > > +1 > > > > > >> I agree that it's unpleasant to see numbers at boot time (especially a > >> datestamped snapshot number). > > > > In grey it's not, IMHO. > > > >> Nota: my idea would be for each version to change the Sugar logo color > >> too... > > > > Much less obtrusive, perhaps, and still effective. I guess we'll run > > out of easily-differentiable fill colours in a few years, but that's a > > different bridge... > > > >> thanks > >> > >> Sean > > > > Martin > > > > > > -- > [email protected] > > http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com > > 917/ 575 0013 > _______________________________________________ > Marketing mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing > -- Caroline Meeks Solution Grove [email protected] 617-500-3488 - Office 505-213-3268 - Fax
_______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep
