[IAEP] [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen

[David Van Assche]

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.be at 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 <sebastian at 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<gary at 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.be at 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<gary at garycmartin.com
> >
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Hi Sean,
> >>>>>> FYI, this came in off list.
> >>>>>> Regards,
> >>>>>> --G
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> From: James Zaki<james.zaki at gmail.com>
> >>>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST
> >>>>>> To: Gary C Martin<gary at 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<gary at 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
> >>>>>>>> <gary at 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
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