On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Mat Tomaszewski<[email protected]> 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
I love the transition effects, but, as has been mentioned before, I was expecting to see a darker theme, in line with the loading screen colours - the transition from dark brown to brighter human felt a bit disconnected :) If we think about it, Mac uses a grey background with a simple logo and throbber, even though at first glance it seems to disconnect with a background, it does match the window decorations well. Just my 2 cents. -Chris -- ubuntu-art mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
