Yeah, this is also something that is relevant and usable across distros, so lets try and make it distro agnostic....
David On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: > Well, I'd like to do a mockup of my idea (tonight), post it to the > wiki under Gary's, and have feedback from the Design Team about both > > The splash/progress page is a key moment of a Learner's interaction > with Sugar, let's explore its possibilities before finalizing it > > thanks > > Sean > > > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <sebast...@when.com> > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > this is just great - thanks a lot for working on it so quickly! :) > > > > It looks really promising! Let me know if you want me to grab the .png > files > > from somewhere to build a test package... > > > > --Sebastian > > > > Sean DALY wrote: > >> > >> wow Gary you were up all night on that > >> > >> Yes by all means back on list > >> > >> I really like the logo cycling through our colors, it's a "golden > >> rule" of marketing to not change logo colors and we break it with > >> panache (each press release PDF has a different color theme too) > >> > >> i want to mock up with kid avatars around Activity icons > >> > >> I build animated GIFs the old-fashioned imagemagick way: > >> $ convert -delay 20 progress-*.png animation.gif > >> > >> I'll upload something today thanks > >> > >> Sean > >> > >> > >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> > >> 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<sdaly...@gmail.com> > 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<g...@garycmartin.com > > > >>>>> wrote: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Hi Sean, > >>>>>> FYI, this came in off list. > >>>>>> Regards, > >>>>>> --G > >>>>>> > >>>>>> Begin forwarded message: > >>>>>> > >>>>>> From: James Zaki<james.z...@gmail.com> > >>>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST > >>>>>> To: Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> > >>>>>> 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<g...@garycmartin.com> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> 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 > >>>>>>>> <g...@garycmartin.com> 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<http://www.freedesktop.org/%7Ehalfline/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 > >>>>>>>>>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>>>>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list > >>>>>>>>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>>>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >>>>>>>>> > >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ > >>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list > >>>>>>> Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > >>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > >> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > > > > > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >
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