[Sugar-devel] [IAEP] Sugar in the splash screen

[Sean DALY]

Our policy is to market Sugar, not the underlying distro. The approach
is to build the Sugar brand. We had this discussion for Sugar on a
Stick.

By OLPC logo I think you mean what I called the XO avatar?

Sean


On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Peter Robinson <pbrobinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The image position affects boot time in plymouth?
>
> No, I think its the time it takes to load the image.
>
>> The logo works best in the center - it's vital we communicate what the
>> name of the interface and platform is.
>
> Well Fedora is in fact the platform and I suspect OLPC will want their
> logo in the middle as per previous splash screens. Fedora Remix one
> use to be bottom right so the Sugar one in the bottom left would
> mirror it nicely.
>
> Peter
>
>> We had mocked up a number of approaches
>> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo) and for Sugar
>> on a Stick, chose the centered Sugar logo for three "dots" and the XO
>> avatar for the rest
>> (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo)
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Rafael Enrique Ortiz Guerrero
>> <dirakx at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> OLPC has offered to include a Sugar logo in the splash screen, much
>>>> the way the Fedora Remix graphic is included. Problem is, we need
>>>> someone to do the work of embedding it.
>>>
>>> To have a lesser impact on boot time sugar logo could be added
>>> on the  opposite side of the fedora remix logo.
>>>
>>>> According to Ed, "We had substantial difficulties with the Fedora logo
>>>> due to the noticeable delay it added to boot time, so some attention
>>>> would need to be paid there."
>>>>
>>>> Anyone out there who would be interested in tackling this?
>>>>
>>>> thanks.
>>>>
>>>> -walter
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> Walter Bender
>>>> Sugar Labs
>>>> http://www.sugarlabs.org
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