mac_v wrote: > Mat Tomaszewski wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Not so long ago we announced the revamp of boot and login experiences in >> Ubuntu and received a great response from the Artwork Team, with many >> interesting concepts being submitted. Thanks again for all your hard work. >> >> The deadline approaches fast and the time is now to make final >> decisions. We have just returned from the Platform Sprint in Dublin, >> where folks directly responsible for making Ubuntu release happen on >> time have gathered. The design team's role was to propose final >> concepts, communicate them to the developers and make sure they can be >> implemented on time. We have received a lot of valuable feedback and >> revised our proposals accordingly. >> >> The initial assumptions, however, remain unchanged. The Foundations >> Team's goal is to start the X server as fast as possible (3-4 seconds on >> a reference machine) and therefore, Usplash will not be used in most >> cases. A new splash screen (Xsplash) will be developed on top of the X >> server and enable a smooth transition into the GDM and the user session. >> >> The latest designs can be viewed here: >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot/Demo. We're looking >> forward to your feedback! >> >> Many thanks, >> >> Mat >> >> > > Hi, > Seems a lot of the good ideas on the wiki were not picked up... > > Anyways, just constructive criticism: > 1- the lack of the progress bar , will be difficult to know when the > system loading will be finished.[IMO this is a *regression* , other OS > may not have the progressbar but we had a good feature!] > the presence of the progress bar actually shows off the good work > done in reducing the boot time, you can visually see the boot is quicker > than Jaunty and _shows off the speed_ of Ubuntu .[which other OS lack!] >
That would be very true if we could make sure the progress bar behaves predictably, another words - the progress indication is stable. The value of a progress bar that slows down and stops, accelerates, slows down again, etc. is not really very high. Since we couldn't ensure the consistent behaviour, we decided to use a throbber instead. Using a throbber has the following advantages: - it gives the impression of stability and predictability - users will quickly learn how many iterations would occur before boot completes, which makes the boot speed easy to track (and helps appreciate the *constant* boot performace of Ubuntu!). > 2- the color of the background is dull , pls choose a more vibrant color. > > Any suggestions what particular colour we could use and why? Thanks! M. -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
