[Sugar-devel] Design review plea.. OLPC desktop switcher

[Christian Marc Schmidt]

Hi Sean, picking up on one of your comments below:


After debating lots of ideas with lots of mockups for
> Sugar on a Stick we went with a Sugar logo during the first three dots
> and the Xo avatar for the remaining ones. We chose variant #06 because
> SoaS v1 will be called Strawberry and we will change the boot color
> and name for each SoaS iteration, the idea being to aid
> unsophisticated users who can communicate version info just from the
> boot logo color.


For simplicity, I would suggest having the logo on a separate screen for a
few secs *before* the XO and the ring with dots appear. I think they should
both be kept separate, for clarity both visually/aesthetically, but also
semantically (the XO at the center of the screen is a fundamental principle
in the Sugar UI, and having it trade places with the logo in the middle of
the ring is mixing metaphors). Let me know if you agree...


Christian


>
>
> On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 4:59 PM, Daniel Drake<dsd at laptop.org> wrote:
> > Hi Eben/other interested victims,
> >
> > I've designed (it's usually bad news when I've designed things) some
> > interfaces that allow for switching between Sugar and GNOME for the
> > XO-1.5 builds. I'm looking for feedback on the design and any
> > suggestions/contributions.
> >
> >
> > By default, laptops boot straight up into Sugar.
> > But you might notice a new icon in the control panel named "Switch
> > desktop"
> > http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/sugar-controlpanel.png<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/20090619/sugar-controlpanel.png>
> >
> > If we click on that, under normal circumstances you will see:
> > http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/sugar-active-sugar.png<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/20090619/sugar-active-sugar.png>
> >
> > Then, when you click the "Switch to GNOME" button, it will look like
> > this:
> > http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/sugar-active-gnome.png<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/20090619/sugar-active-gnome.png>
> >
> > And if everything works right, this one will never be seen, but allows
> > for an escape route if something goes wrong:
> > http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/sugar-active-unknown.png<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/20090619/sugar-active-unknown.png>
> >
> >
> > When you're in GNOME, there is an icon that says "Switch to Sugar" on
> > the desktop. It's also on the Applications menu, under System. When you
> > click on it, it brings up a dialog box that tells you to restart and
> > then you'll be back in Sugar again.
> > In this screenshot you can see the desktop item, the menu item, and the
> > output dialog box:
> > http://dev.laptop.org/~dsd/20090619/gnome-ui.png<http://dev.laptop.org/%7Edsd/20090619/gnome-ui.png>
> >
> >
> > Code for all of that is at
> > git://dev.laptop.org/users/dsd/olpc-switch-desktop
> > (latest updates to be pushed in a few minutes)
> >
> >
> > The Logout menu item in sugar is disabled. It's still there in GNOME,
> > but I'll look for a way to hide it. (when you logout, it just basically
> > restarts the desktop environment, so it's kind of pointless. A reboot is
> > acceptable for changing DE, and the logout concept is confusing when
> > there wasn't any logging in to begin with.)
> >
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Daniel
> >
> >
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> >
>



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