Yeah, this is also something that is relevant and usable across distros, so lets try and make it distro agnostic.... David <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Sean DALY <<a href="http://sdaly.be">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com">gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Well, I'd like to do a mockup of my idea (tonight), post it to the wiki under Gary's, and have feedback from the Design Team about both The splash/progress page is a key moment of a Learner's interaction with Sugar, let's explore its possibilities before finalizing it thanks Sean <div><div></div><div class="h5"> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Sebastian Dziallas <<a href="mailto:sebastian@when.com">sebastian@when.com</a>> wrote: > Hi all, > > this is just great - thanks a lot for working on it so quickly! :) > > It looks really promising! Let me know if you want me to grab the .png files > from somewhere to build a test package... > > --Sebastian > > Sean DALY wrote: >> >> wow Gary you were up all night on that >> >> Yes by all means back on list >> >> I really like the logo cycling through our colors, it's a "golden >> rule" of marketing to not change logo colors and we break it with >> panache (each press release PDF has a different color theme too) >> >> i want to mock up with kid avatars around Activity icons >> >> I build animated GIFs the old-fashioned imagemagick way: >> $ convert -delay 20 progress-*.png animation.gif >> >> I'll upload something today thanks >> >> Sean >> >> >> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Gary C Martin<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> >> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Folks, >>> >>> Just to get a basic, safe, default starting point in there, I've uploaded >>> one simple treatment to: >>> >>> >>> >>> <a href="http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations" target="_blank">http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations</a> >>> >>> 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<<a href="http://sdaly.be" target="_blank">sdaly.be</a>@<a href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank">gmail.com</a>> 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<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> Hi Sean, >>>>>> FYI, this came in off list. >>>>>> Regards, >>>>>> --G >>>>>> >>>>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>>>> >>>>>> From: James Zaki<<a href="mailto:james.zaki@gmail.com">james.zaki@gmail.com</a>> >>>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST >>>>>> To: Gary C Martin<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> >>>>>> 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<<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> 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 >>>>>>>> <<a href="mailto:gary@garycmartin.com">gary@garycmartin.com</a>> 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: >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> <a href="http://www.freedesktop.org/%7Ehalfline/olpc.tar.bz2" target="_blank">http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2</a> >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 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 >>>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >>>>>>>>>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>>>> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >>>>>>>>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>> <a href="mailto:Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org">Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >>>>>>> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel</a> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >> <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> >> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> > > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) <a href="mailto:IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org">IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org</a> <a href="http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep" target="_blank">http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep</a> </div></div></blockquote></div>