<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:58, 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;">
I would not recommend customizing the splash/progress from within<br>
Sugar... boot time is often a tense moment fraught with impatience<br>
(especially after a freeze/crash) and predictability in how Sugar<br>
"usually" loads is I think desirable</blockquote><div><br>I don't think it would be a problem, as long as the customization calls on a regeneration of *static* images to display, rather than creating the images at boot time based on configuration files. This way, there would be no performance penalty. (wrt customization, we should limit it to things like distro logos and the name of the school/lab) <br>
<br>Not to clutter it up, but it also might be useful to as well as a visual indicator of the boot mechanism (SoaS vs. local booting vs. helper CD) so as to assist in debugging etc.<br></div></div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 13:07, Frederick Grose <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:fgrose@gmail.com">fgrose@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;">
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.<br>
<br>The work space is both sufficiently small and necessarily limited,
so that robustness could be provided, while at the same time, the
content of the sequences is limited only by the imagination. Learners
will be able to take pride in a working sequence based on their
modifications!<br><br>I imagine that
simple cartoons with embedded, single point or short point lessons,
messages, and humor would become popular. Brief jingles would develop
a currency like ring tones. And so on, <i>ad infinitum</i>!<br>
</blockquote><div><br>This would be difficult to do in a multi-user system, and even more so to coordinate with implementing a bitfrost security model. Rebooting shouldn't happen that often that the user has to care about customizing it. <br>
</div></div><br>Ideally, we should get the boot-time down to be short enough that you won't even notice such things, let alone using the time for notifications or board messages!<br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Luke Faraone<br>
<a href="http://luke.faraone.cc">http://luke.faraone.cc</a><br>