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

[Walter Bender]

On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 1:35 PM, Sean DALY <sdaly.be at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

This is the OLPC we are talking about, not SoaS. I think it is
appropriate that they have both the Fedora Remix and Sugar branding.

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

Currently, the Fedora Remix mark is in the lower right during the
beginning of the boot animation, where the XO and dots are rendered.

-walter

> 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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