[Marketing] [Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

[Sebastian Dziallas]

Sean DALY wrote:
> Sebastian is on copy of previous, if he doesn't react shortly I'd say
> don't bother... press release needs to go out very soon under 1 hour

Ah, sorry folks for being a bit late (had some friends here during the 
evening). Well, as I need to rebuild SoaS tomorrow... oh, it's already 
Saturday, so today anyway, I don't mind rebuilding the boot screen 
package, if it's really needed.

Cheers,
--Sebastian

> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 10:27 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>  wrote:
>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 21:00, Eben Eliason wrote:
>>
>>> I'm in agreement with Christian. I think the non-overlapping treatment
>>> is cleaner and maintains the purity of the metaphor.
>> Well the purity of the metaphor passes me by I'm afraid**, but hey, I
>> got the idea from you in the first place with your progress bar boot
>> treatment (looked more elegant with the overlap)! :-)
>>
>> **I thought the goal of the boot anim was a smooth transition all the
>> way to the operational Sugar UI.
>>
>>> Eben
>>>
>>> PS. Actually, I find the transition less jarring when there are no
>>> dots associated with the logo, since it indicates that there is no
>>> direct relationship between the two. When the dots are continuous but
>>> the graphic in the middle changes, I get the impression I missed
>>> something.
>> So is it bad enough that I should to rush the few frames of PNGs
>> difference over to Sebastian tonight (I'm not sure if that also means
>> he has extra to rebuild for tomorrow)?
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 1:43 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>
>>>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 18:11, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Gary--is it online somewhere where I could look at it? Maybe I
>>>>> just
>>>>> need to see it...
>>>> The two to look at for this are:
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/4b/Refined-XO-sugar-boot-with-overlap.gif
>>>>
>>>> vs.
>>>>
>>>> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/7/7c/Refined-XO-sugar-boot.gif
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> --Gary
>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>> Christian
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>>>
>>>>> On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Gary C Martin<gary at garycmartin.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Christian,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 17:53, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi Sean, picking up on one of your comments below:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> After debating lots of ideas with lots of mockups for
>>>>>>>> Sugar on a Stick we went with a Sugar logo during the first
>>>>>>>> three dots
>>>>>>>> and the Xo avatar for the remaining ones. We chose variant #06
>>>>>>>> because
>>>>>>>> SoaS v1 will be called Strawberry and we will change the boot
>>>>>>>> color
>>>>>>>> and name for each SoaS iteration, the idea being to aid
>>>>>>>> unsophisticated users who can communicate version info just
>>>>>>>> from the
>>>>>>>> boot logo color.
>>>>>>> For simplicity, I would suggest having the logo on a separate
>>>>>>> screen for
>>>>>>> a few secs *before* the XO and the ring with dots appear. I
>>>>>>> think they
>>>>>>> should both be kept separate, for clarity both visually/
>>>>>>> aesthetically, but
>>>>>>> also semantically (the XO at the center of the screen is a
>>>>>>> fundamental
>>>>>>> principle in the Sugar UI, and having it trade places with the
>>>>>>> logo in the
>>>>>>> middle of the ring is mixing metaphors). Let me know if you
>>>>>>> agree...
>>>>>> That was tried first (some of the mock-ups have it that way), but
>>>>>> it's
>>>>>> visually jarring. Like watching some random slide show of logos.
>>>>>> Slightly
>>>>>> overlapping the logo / progress dots / xo gave (IMO) continuity
>>>>>> to the boot
>>>>>> process progression.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> --Gary
>>>>>>
>>>>
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