Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Gary C Martin
On 19 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Daniel Drake wrote: Hi Eben/other interested victims, I've designed (it's usually bad news when I've designed things) some interfaces that allow for switching between Sugar and GNOME for the XO-1.5 builds. I'm looking for feedback on the design and any

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Sayamindu Dasgupta
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Daniel Draked...@laptop.org wrote: Hi Eben/other interested victims, I've designed (it's usually bad news when I've designed things) some interfaces that allow for switching between Sugar and GNOME for the XO-1.5 builds. I'm looking for feedback on the design

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Lucian Branescu
This looks great! What I don't like though, is the 'switch to sugar' functionality being available as a button. Wouldn't it be better to keep it as a GDM session option? 2009/6/19 Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org: Hi Eben/other interested victims, I've designed (it's usually bad news when I've

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Daniel Drake
On Fri, 2009-06-19 at 17:04 +0100, Lucian Branescu wrote: This looks great! What I don't like though, is the 'switch to sugar' functionality being available as a button. Wouldn't it be better to keep it as a GDM session option? Thanks for the feedback. We aren't shipping GDM or similar,

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Sean DALY
Hi Daniel looks great May I suggest using the word interface instead of desktop from within Sugar? Learners don't use a desktop :-) And, if I may, I'd like to put in a word for having the Sugar logo on the control panel screens referring to Sugar. For example if

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Bert Freudenberg
On 19.06.2009, at 18:02, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote: Minor nitpick (and this has been discussed again and again on various lists), but the foot icon may be regarded as highly offensive in certain cultures (eg: certain places in S-E Asia). Assuming penguins are unencumbered, I'd suggest a Tux

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Christian Marc Schmidt
Hi Sean, picking up on one of your comments below: After debating lots of ideas with lots of mockups for Sugar on a Stick we went with a Sugar logo during the first three dots and the Xo avatar for the remaining ones. We chose variant #06 because SoaS v1 will be called Strawberry and we will

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Gary C Martin
Hi Christian, On 19 Jun 2009, at 18:11, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: Hi Gary--is it online somewhere where I could look at it? Maybe I just need to see it... The two to look at for this are: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/4b/Refined-XO-sugar-boot-with-overlap.gif vs.

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Sean DALY
Hmmm. For SoaS, I'm wondering why we're discussing this again after we made a choice just under the deadline last week. The issue is that the impression should last at least 3 seconds, and by being present during the dot process we don't delay boot unnnecessarily. We could fade to the Xo avatar

Re: [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

2009-06-19 Thread Eben Eliason
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Sean DALYsdaly...@gmail.com wrote: Hmmm. For SoaS, I'm wondering why we're discussing this again after we made a choice just under the deadline last week. The issue is that the impression should last at least 3 seconds, and by being present during the dot