Yeah, based on what I can imagine from descriptions so far, I think
zooming/morphing the login box in the magnitude mentioned here is
superfluous and dilutes the Greeter-Desktop connection established by
having the wallpaper and menu bar in the greeter.
Still, we can fade the menu bar from its translucent greeter state to
its solid desktop state. Perhaps also slide in the launcher when Unity
is ready, as mentioned here. That be seamless and signal when the system
is ready.
The login box could morph in a couple of situations though: e.g. when
the user goes to Desktop Environment selection, or when a more complex
dialogue, like password change is presented.
We could also do something with sliding boxes… some tentative design
work can be seen here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MT5Qrouudu9EftJdbtuz-Z1l26bDUDlcpPD52YsABYM/edit?hl=en_GB&pli=1#heading=h.afowxbl00dr4
I think for 12.10 we could treat this as an end-to-end journey and
specify all touchpoints and transitions from bootup to login to lock to
unlock to logout and shutdown :)
Thanks,
Mika
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On 17/02/12 16:17, Yann Brelière wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 17:06, Ian Santopietro <isan...@gmail.com
<mailto:isan...@gmail.com>> wrote:
That's better, but I still feel like it's putting emphasis on the
wrong parts of the system. It gives the impression the the login
screen is what controls everything else, which clearly isn't
actually the case.
The login box sliding off the screen doesn't place any undue
emphasis on any particular part of the system and it isn't as
misleading as the zoom effect would be. It also doesn't require any
advanced compositing, making it better suited for running on lower
end hardware, and provides a visual experience that would be less
jarring.
--Ian Santopietro
An even simpler and less obtrusive solution would be a soft fade out /
fade in of everything except the background (which is the only thing
that doesn't change) and the top panel (for which a transition between
the translucent and opaque style could be made, but only if the same
would happen for the panel when opening/closing the dash, to keep things
cohesive).
--
Yann
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