Maybe we could add some branding to the "Name" entry page? That's only seen once, and the screen is mostly white, but it's the first thing most children see.<div><br></div><div>An animated "Welcome to Sugar" along the lines of the Mac OSX installer would be awesome.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 10:23 AM, David Farning <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dfarning@sugarlabs.org">dfarning@sugarlabs.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> <a href="http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/conclusions_of_olpc_pilot_in_n.html" target="_blank">http://www.olpcnews.com/countries/usa/conclusions_of_olpc_pilot_in_n.html</a><br>
><br>
> I have read this report in full and although the user group was small,<br>
> I find the study rigorous and chock full of insights. For example,<br>
> curiosity in the Terminal is much higher than I would have guessed.<br>
> Although the families are a priori not well-off, there is already a<br>
> family computer in almost all students' homes, and after the study<br>
> period responding parents were not dead-set against the suggestion of<br>
> partially paying for the machine. Interesting comparisons with tablets<br>
> and laptop carts/computer labs are made. The study's caveats are<br>
> clearly stated.<br>
><br>
> From a marketing point of view however, I note that "Sugar" doesn't<br>
> even register a mention - the Activities are cited of course, but the<br>
> author makes no distinction between the XO and its software;<br>
> apparently unaware that the software can even run outside the XO.<br>
<br>
</div>The study is dated June 2008. Sugar Labs had only been around for a<br>
couple months and our presence in mainstream distributions was pretty<br>
limited.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d"><br>
> conclusion that a video output for projector compatibility would<br>
> encourage teacher use could be turned around: Sugar could run on a<br>
> teacher's machine with a video output.<br>
><br>
> Awareness of Sugar could be raised at boot-up time, with a Sugar or<br>
> Sugar Labs logo; not necessarily a classic in-your-face splash screen,<br>
> but a helpful reminder of what users are looking at. It's traditional<br>
> after all for an OS to identify itself, often with a version number;<br>
> perhaps an ideal moment to indicate the interface language? (possibly<br>
> useful when booting Sugar on any hardware with a non-qwerty keyboard?)<br>
<br>
</div>A challenge here is that Sugar is a user environment running on top of<br>
a existing distribution. The splash screen general indicates the name<br>
and release of the distribution.<br>
<br>
On my ubuntu computer the only branding for the desktop is an 'about<br>
gnome' entry on the systems menu.<br>
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