Yeah, this is also something that is relevant and usable across distros, so lets try and make it distro agnostic....<br><br>David<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sean DALY <span dir="ltr"><<a href="http://sdaly.be">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, I'd like to do a mockup of my idea (tonight), post it to the<br>
wiki under Gary's, and have feedback from the Design Team about both<br>
<br>
The splash/progress page is a key moment of a Learner's interaction<br>
with Sugar, let's explore its possibilities before finalizing it<br>
<br>
thanks<br>
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On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hi all,<br>
><br>
> this is just great - thanks a lot for working on it so quickly! :)<br>
><br>
> It looks really promising! Let me know if you want me to grab the .png files<br>
> from somewhere to build a test package...<br>
><br>
> --Sebastian<br>
><br>
> Sean DALY wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> wow Gary you were up all night on that<br>
>><br>
>> Yes by all means back on list<br>
>><br>
>> I really like the logo cycling through our colors, it's a "golden<br>
>> rule" of marketing to not change logo colors and we break it with<br>
>> panache (each press release PDF has a different color theme too)<br>
>><br>
>> i want to mock up with kid avatars around Activity icons<br>
>><br>
>> I build animated GIFs the old-fashioned imagemagick way:<br>
>> $ convert -delay 20 progress-*.png animation.gif<br>
>><br>
>> I'll upload something today thanks<br>
>><br>
>> Sean<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Gary C Martin<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>><br>
>> wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>> Hi Folks,<br>
>>><br>
>>> Just to get a basic, safe, default starting point in there, I've uploaded<br>
>>> one simple treatment to:<br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>><br>
>>> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations</a><br>
>>><br>
>>> Will try to upload a couple more tomorrow.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Night,<br>
>>> --Gary<br>
>>><br>
>>> P.S. Should pull this back on list, your call Sean, but probably worth<br>
>>> getting a couple more ideas up so that folks can input to some<br>
>>> alternative<br>
>>> treatments.<br>
>>><br>
>>> On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote:<br>
>>><br>
>>>> Christian, Eben<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an<br>
>>>> outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, "celebrating" Sugar<br>
>>>> interface.iconography and greeting children.<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I know nothing about the plymouth boot animator, but i deduce that<br>
>>>> consecutively named files will do the trick<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> I'm willing to attack this but before I try scraping screenshots, do<br>
>>>> you guys have any interface assets i could grab?<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Input greatly appreciated<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> thanks<br>
>>>><br>
>>>> Sean<br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>><br>
>>>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Sean DALY<<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Maybe we could work on it together?<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> here's my idea.... like my booth rollup banner mockup which Christian<br>
>>>>> 7 Eben both liked, I want to stay as much as possible within the Sugar<br>
>>>>> HIG and iconography.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> boot should start with our logo ... smaller than in the previous SoaS<br>
>>>>> ... (not sure yet if should be with or without "labs")<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> The ring is iconic ... I want to keep a ring at boot... but instead of<br>
>>>>> dots, I want XO avatars - kids!<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> In the middle... each succeeding image with a colored Activity icon...<br>
>>>>> matched to the corresponding XO avatar appearing in the ring. So kids<br>
>>>>> understand that Activities are for them.<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> And ending with... kids around the Journal!<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Alternate idea: cycling through the 12 logo color combos?<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Not mutually exclusive... logo could be on the bottom of ring<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> What do you think?<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> thanks<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> Sean<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> P.S. I've actually done something similar with a titling sequence for<br>
>>>>> a short film. I started with the final image and wiped elements,<br>
>>>>> backing down to the first image<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> I use imagemagick a lot no problem to create a script which could<br>
>>>>> inject arbitrary text into a ppm file<br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>><br>
>>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gary C Martin<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>><br>
>>>>> wrote:<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Hi Sean,<br>
>>>>>> FYI, this came in off list.<br>
>>>>>> Regards,<br>
>>>>>> --G<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> Begin forwarded message:<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> From: James Zaki<<a href="mailto:james.zaki@gmail.com">james.zaki@gmail.com</a>><br>
>>>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST<br>
>>>>>> To: Gary C Martin<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>><br>
>>>>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen<br>
>>>>>> I'm in touch with a design company who owes me a favour or two.<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> I could get them to whip up some concept designs for inspiration?<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> James<br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>><br>
>>>>>> 2009/5/29 Gary C Martin<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>><br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote:<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>> Sebastian, Gary<br>
>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>> I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for<br>
>>>>>>>> awhile<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review.<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>> --G<br>
>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>> What's the deadline please?<br>
>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>> thanks<br>
>>>>>>>> Sean<br>
>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin<br>
>>>>>>>> <<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> wrote:<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote:<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi folks,<br>
>>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been<br>
>>>>>>>>>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS<br>
>>>>>>>>>> Yum<br>
>>>>>>>>>> repo<br>
>>>>>>>>>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11.<br>
>>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten,<br>
>>>>>>>>>> and I<br>
>>>>>>>>>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to deal<br>
>>>>>>>>>> with a<br>
>>>>>>>>>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old Sugar logo<br>
>>>>>>>>>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny<br>
>>>>>>>>>> (probably<br>
>>>>>>>>>> with a progress bar).<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition.<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing there was<br>
>>>>>>>>>> at<br>
>>>>>>>>>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really<br>
>>>>>>>>>> great if<br>
>>>>>>>>>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen.<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of view if<br>
>>>>>>>>> no<br>
>>>>>>>>> one else steps forward.<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>> So. When did you need it by?<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software release,<br>
>>>>>>>>>> which<br>
>>>>>>>>>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file structure:<br>
>>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/%7Ehalfline/olpc.tar.bz2" target="_blank">http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2</a><br>
>>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with.<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of olpc.tar.bz2 it<br>
>>>>>>>>> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the<br>
>>>>>>>>> config<br>
>>>>>>>>> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps the<br>
>>>>>>>>> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the<br>
>>>>>>>>> location<br>
>>>>>>>>> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again?<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a dig in<br>
>>>>>>>>> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering if<br>
>>>>>>>>> this<br>
>>>>>>>>> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the<br>
>>>>>>>>> correct<br>
>>>>>>>>> file names :-)<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>> Regards,<br>
>>>>>>>>> --Gary<br>
>>>>>>>>><br>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,<br>
>>>>>>>>>> --Sebastian<br>
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