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

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Gary C Martin wrote:
> On 30 May 2009, at 18:50, Walter Bender wrote:
>
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:07 PM, Frederick Grose <fgrose at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> [snip]
>>> For Sugar, the new "Hello World" tutorial could be its boot
>>> Activities for
>>> Learners: Each development tool (Pippy, Turtle Art, Etoys, others, even
>>> Forth) should provide an Activity to build the start-up sequence.
>>> Learners
>>> could play with the tools to build an endless variety of start-up spots,
>>> modify and preview from a library of saved sequences, learn all sorts of
>>> things about the system, the different tools, and of course,
>>> designate one
>>> sequence to display on the next boot.
>>
>> Fred has sparked an idea. What if we replace the dots with activity
>> icons?
>
> Hmmm, activities shown might not be installed and then lead to confusion
> (unless you are considering the difficult step of pre-generating boot
> graphics at shutdown).
>
> There's a fine line between cool eye-candy – and there are plenty of
> cool Sugary lickable animations we could try, activity icons being one –
> and boot UI feedback utility :-)
>
> Now... If the technical boot stages could be made clear (device/keyboard
> checks, network detection, certain key services, etc) it could be of
> real use to have some simplified abstract icon for each stage so you'd
> have an idea for what really might be going on (or where a boot/hardware
> problem was) – but realistically that's more of a long term UI
> opportunity**.
>
> ** Sebastian: Do you know just where/when each progress update is
> triggered, and what major boot landmark could be sensible to visually
> indicate success of?

Sorry, I'm not exactly sure *when* it gets triggered. What I can tell 
you from looking at the tarball is that there are also other themes, 
which contain a different number of .png files. For example, there's 
one, that contains 32 progress and 19 throbber .png files. So I guess 
plymouth adjusts what gets displayed to the number of images. I suppose 
there's one event which triggers the change from showing the progress to 
the throbber files, but I'm not sure, what it is. From my experience, 
the throbber files are shown rather late in the boot process, shortly 
before logging in.

Ray Strode (halfline in #fedora-devel) is one of the developers and has 
been really helpful with regard to my questions when hacking the logo 
into plymouth. He might know.

--Sebastian

> Regards
> --Gary
>
>> -walter
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
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