On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Sean DALY<sdaly...@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 process we don't delay boot > unnnecessarily.
We wouldn't delay boot. The logo would just appear during the period in which the first 3 dots would be shown. The ring of dots around the XO, then, would just have 3 fewer dots. > We could fade to the Xo avatar instead of cutting to it from the Sugar > logo (this version is a sequence of PNGs). I fear this would look even worse, since the frames appear at about 1fps or fewer. - Eben > However, unless Sebastian indicates changes are possible I'm not sure > we can do that by now. The press release will be published Wednesday > morning EDT. > > For the XO-1.5, I'm certainly willing to prolong the previous thread > :-) my question really was can we get OLPC on board to communicate at > boot time that Sugar is "the interface you're looking at" > > thanks > > Sean > > > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:00 PM, Eben Eliason<eben.elia...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I'm in agreement with Christian. I think the non-overlapping treatment >> is cleaner and maintains the purity of the metaphor. >> >> Eben >> >> PS. Actually, I find the transition less jarring when there are no >> dots associated with the logo, since it indicates that there is no >> direct relationship between the two. When the dots are continuous but >> the graphic in the middle changes, I get the impression I missed >> something. >> >> >> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: >>> 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. >>> >>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/7/7c/Refined-XO-sugar-boot.gif >>> >>> Regards, >>> --Gary >>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> >>>> Christian >>>> >>>> Sent from my iPhone >>>> >>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Gary C Martin <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Christian, >>>>> >>>>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 17:53, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> 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 change the boot color >>>>>>> and name for each SoaS iteration, the idea being to aid >>>>>>> unsophisticated users who can communicate version info just from the >>>>>>> boot logo color. >>>>>> >>>>>> For simplicity, I would suggest having the logo on a separate screen for >>>>>> a few secs *before* the XO and the ring with dots appear. I think they >>>>>> should both be kept separate, for clarity both visually/aesthetically, >>>>>> but >>>>>> also semantically (the XO at the center of the screen is a fundamental >>>>>> principle in the Sugar UI, and having it trade places with the logo in >>>>>> the >>>>>> middle of the ring is mixing metaphors). Let me know if you agree... >>>>> >>>>> That was tried first (some of the mock-ups have it that way), but it's >>>>> visually jarring. Like watching some random slide show of logos. Slightly >>>>> overlapping the logo / progress dots / xo gave (IMO) continuity to the >>>>> boot >>>>> process progression. >>>>> >>>>> Regards, >>>>> --Gary >>>>> >>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel