Hi Glynn & co. On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 22:22 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: > These are the locations I can think of off the top of my head - are there > others? Can we think outside the box of an improved experience that we don't > currently provide? >Where? > ======
here goes: * A "tip of the day" popup on login - how about a little firefox window with minimal decoration showing just after you login, displaying a custom web page with "next tip", "previous tip" links. Initially perhaps with a URL pointing to local content, in case the user hasn't got networking yet, but bonus points for detecting this on the fly and pointing to a web version if applicable. An added plus, we'd be pre-loading firefox, so users would see subsequent firefox windows pop up *really* quickly, albeit making the desktop a bit more sluggish to begin with.. * Slightly related, an OpenSolaris side-bar page ? http://lifehacker.com/software/firefox-tip/load-any-site-in-your-firefox-sidebar-294684.php we don't have an appropriate page at the moment, it'd need to be skinny to fit - perhaps a page with just useful OpenSolaris links or RSS headlines ? (complimenting http://www.opensolaris.org which could be the main Indiana firefox home page) * The GNOME Help page ( a fairly prominent link in the menu ) * A shutdown splash screen - if we're showing stuff during startup, it's only polite to say "Goodbye" as well. * No idea if this is possible with Compiz (Erwann?) but a desktop background/app with semi-translucent RSS headlines from planet.opensolaris.org might make for some nice dynamic visuals along with the static desktop image. Again technically, I don't know if this is a runner. * Branded Rhythmbox visualisations - does the Rhythmbox visualisation plugin work yet (I admit to only having tried it on nv_69, which crashes) but something to display pretty pictures while playing music in the background *and* displaying an OpenSolaris logo could be a nice draw for OpenSolaris.org at conference booths and the like... In terms of emphasising Indiana's alpha state, perhaps adding a few of those crash-test-dummy yellow/black circles to any branding we have would do ? http://images.google.com/images?q=crash+test+dummy (or has that been done before?) The trend seems to be to stamp "Alpha" or "Beta" onto your logo and let users work it out - that seems like a bit of a cop out though... http://ajax.phpmagazine.net/upload/2006/02/web20.jpg and I quite liked some of the in-development gimp splash screens: http://www.gimp.org/about/splash/ Hope this helps ? cheers, tim > > o GRUB Splash > o uname -a [!!?] > o Login Screen > o Login Splash (can we lose the icons/text?) > o Desktop Background > o Panel/menu setup > o Desktop icon/window/widget theme > o Firefox homepage > o Desktop icons > o Installer screens > o Screensaver > o Others? > > When? > ===== > With a preview release in Fall this year, it would be good at the very least > to > map out the various locations that we definitely want to brand, though the > content will likely be very different (think 'Alpha' rather than a final > product). We may want to set proper expectations for people trying it out this > preview release and how the brand might effect that. Frank Ludolph has some > thoughts on some of this, and I think he has done some initial work on putting > some bits and pieces together that has addressed some of these ideas. > Hopefully > he will update us on it soon. > > This might be a discussion that we could have at the OpenSolaris summit, and > have a break-off working group. Cc'ing advocacy-discuss since it's likely to > be > a topic of interest, but setting the reply-to indiana-discuss where the > conversation should continue. > > > Thoughts, suggestions? > > Glynn > > [1] http://www.gnome.org/~gman/gui-install/screen9.png > [2] file:///usr/share/doc/soldevex/html/developer_guide.html > [3] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/newbies > _______________________________________________ > advocacy-discuss mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/advocacy-discuss -- Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops http://blogs.sun.com/timf _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
