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

[Gary C Martin]

Hi Christian,

On 19 Jun 2009, at 18:11, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:

> Hi Gary--is it online somewhere where I could look at it? Maybe I  
> just need to see it...

The two to look at for this are:

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/4/4b/Refined-XO-sugar-boot-with-overlap.gif

vs.

http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/images/7/7c/Refined-XO-sugar-boot.gif

Regards,
--Gary

> Thanks,
>
> Christian
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jun 19, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Gary C Martin <gary at garycmartin.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Christian,
>>
>> On 19 Jun 2009, at 17:53, Christian Marc Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>> 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...
>>
>> That was tried first (some of the mock-ups have it that way), but  
>> it's visually jarring. Like watching some random slide show of  
>> logos. Slightly overlapping the logo / progress dots / xo gave  
>> (IMO) continuity to the boot process progression.
>>
>> Regards,
>> --Gary
>>