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

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

I agree with your points--comments below:

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)

Yes, I fully agree! A stationary XO icon would be simpler, less forced.

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

Agree with that, too.

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

Here, I think it would be best if the XO would have the colors set in the UI...

>
> 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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