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

[Eben Eliason]

On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:40 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
> We'll need to check with OLPC regarding the use of the XO for our
> splash screen. When we first started Sugar Labs, they had requested
> that we not incorporate the XO into our branding. I'll ask Chuck and
> Robert for their renewed input.

I really hope they don't get up in arms about that. The whole intent
of the boot process, as designed, was to jump straight into the UI,
without messing around with lots of branding. Perhaps showing the
Sugar logo first (the branding) and the XO second (the "pre-UI") will
help us get around the tricky legal issues.

Eben

> -walter
>
> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com> wrote:
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On 30 May 2009, at 10:17, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Gary, this looks good, though I wonder about the loss of the XO in
>>> the center. The boot sequence was intended to establish the UI, and in
>>> many ways the XO does signify the Sugar brand as much (more?) as the
>>> logo. Suggestion: Could we not simply show the logo for a few seconds,
>>> before transitioning into the current boot sequence? I'd hate to lose
>>> the current sequence, I think it works very well, and Eben will attest
>>> that much time was spent arriving at where we are today...
>>
>> Yes, agreed, the original boot up is very hard to beat (showing a
>> child as central). Just bouncing ideas about here. My only criticisms
>> of the original would be:
>>
>> 1) not liking the kid icon breaking into a rotating arrow treatment
>> (seems too forced/smart, the whole XO icon is a stronger identity,
>> appearing dots show progress just fine)

Agreed. Christian and I never wanted the XO to move at all, let alone
be sliced in two. ;)

>> 2) seemed odd for the dots to appear from 6 o'clock to 6 o'clock (12
>> to 12 feels more natural to me)

That's also true. Though I'm not even sure we need the dots.

>> 3) lack of any colour (though this is tough to avoid breaking HIG
>> iconography on colour use)

I think showing the logo in color is fine, but I'd stand firm on the
XO as a gray outline until the transition to the Home screen. Our
pie-in-the-sky mockups for the boot sequence actually had the XO
pulsing between the outline and the child's chosen colors, but clearly
this can't be done until we can load the colors from flash somehow,
and it requires more work than the static frames.

This would still be the preferred target, I think, if there's any way
to make it happen. Even if we couldn't pulse the XO until the very end
of the boot process, this would be a nice effect.

Eben


>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>
>>> Christian
>>>
>>>
>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 10:59 PM, 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
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> 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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