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

[Caroline Meeks]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Christian Marc Schmidt <
christianmarc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, meant to reply-all! Comment below:
>
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Martin Dengler <martin at martindengler.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 01:24:26PM +0200, Sean DALY wrote:
> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo
> >>
> >> Christian - I myself prefer the "rays" to dots which I feel too
> >> closely resemble networks in the Neighborhood view, confusion is
> >> possible (networks being connected to at startup?)
> >
> > The rays are too dominant, IMHO.  The circles suffer from the
> > confusion you mention, and the dots (gray) are just right.
>
> I agree--the rays don't feel like they are part of the same visual
> language as the rest of the UI, since they break the square grid that
> other icons succumb to. I'm not sure about the confusion regarding the
> color circles and access points; maybe we should ask around and see
> what other people think? Maybe we could also just choose a single
> color (the colors you have set for your XO) to avoid any confusion.
> Otherwise, I'm also perfectly happy sticking to gray dots, and
> coloring the XO as I mentioned earlier.


I agree about the rays not feeling like the fit. It feels like its not part
of Sugar.

I haven't been following carefully but my favorite idea was grey dots
getting colored in as you go.

>
>
> >
> >> Re splash page with logo: in my next mockup I'll leave off the example
> >> school logo.and move that frame to the end. It might be better to
> >> "reserve" a frame for customizable logo or message, before or after
> >> the Sugar spash page
> >
> > I think that information is great to work in, but it won't be too
> > visible (thus useful) in just one frame, will it?
> >
> >> Version info: In fact I feel strongly about showing version
> >> information...or its corollary, making it easy to find.
> >
> >
> > +1
> >
> >
> >> I agree that it's unpleasant to see numbers at boot time (especially a
> >> datestamped snapshot number).
> >
> > In grey it's not, IMHO.
> >
> >> Nota: my idea would be for each version to change the Sugar logo color
> >> too...
> >
> > Much less obtrusive, perhaps, and still effective.  I guess we'll run
> > out of easily-differentiable fill colours in a few years, but that's a
> > different bridge...
> >
> >> thanks
> >>
> >> Sean
> >
> > Martin
> >
>
>
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