Hi all, this is just great - thanks a lot for working on it so quickly! :)
It looks really promising! Let me know if you want me to grab the .png files from somewhere to build a test package... --Sebastian Sean DALY wrote: > wow Gary you were up all night on that > > Yes by all means back on list > > I really like the logo cycling through our colors, it's a "golden > rule" of marketing to not change logo colors and we break it with > panache (each press release PDF has a different color theme too) > > i want to mock up with kid avatars around Activity icons > > I build animated GIFs the old-fashioned imagemagick way: > $ convert -delay 20 progress-*.png animation.gif > > I'll upload something today thanks > > Sean > > > On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 4:59 AM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: >> Hi Folks, >> >> Just to get a basic, safe, default starting point in there, I've uploaded >> one simple treatment to: >> >> >> >> http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Marketing_Team/Boot_Logo#Sugar_Boot_Logo_Animations >> >> Will try to upload a couple more tomorrow. >> >> Night, >> --Gary >> >> P.S. Should pull this back on list, your call Sean, but probably worth >> getting a couple more ideas up so that folks can input to some alternative >> treatments. >> >> On 30 May 2009, at 00:58, Sean DALY wrote: >> >>> Christian, Eben >>> >>> I'm not sure if you are on sugar-devel but this is I think an >>> outstanding opportunity for Sugar branding, "celebrating" Sugar >>> interface.iconography and greeting children. >>> >>> I know nothing about the plymouth boot animator, but i deduce that >>> consecutively named files will do the trick >>> >>> I'm willing to attack this but before I try scraping screenshots, do >>> you guys have any interface assets i could grab? >>> >>> Input greatly appreciated >>> >>> thanks >>> >>> Sean >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:32 AM, Sean DALY<sdaly...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Maybe we could work on it together? >>>> >>>> here's my idea.... like my booth rollup banner mockup which Christian >>>> 7 Eben both liked, I want to stay as much as possible within the Sugar >>>> HIG and iconography. >>>> >>>> >>>> boot should start with our logo ... smaller than in the previous SoaS >>>> ... (not sure yet if should be with or without "labs") >>>> >>>> The ring is iconic ... I want to keep a ring at boot... but instead of >>>> dots, I want XO avatars - kids! >>>> >>>> In the middle... each succeeding image with a colored Activity icon... >>>> matched to the corresponding XO avatar appearing in the ring. So kids >>>> understand that Activities are for them. >>>> >>>> And ending with... kids around the Journal! >>>> >>>> Alternate idea: cycling through the 12 logo color combos? >>>> >>>> Not mutually exclusive... logo could be on the bottom of ring >>>> >>>> What do you think? >>>> >>>> thanks >>>> >>>> Sean >>>> >>>> P.S. I've actually done something similar with a titling sequence for >>>> a short film. I started with the final image and wiped elements, >>>> backing down to the first image >>>> >>>> I use imagemagick a lot no problem to create a script which could >>>> inject arbitrary text into a ppm file >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> >>>> wrote: >>>>> Hi Sean, >>>>> FYI, this came in off list. >>>>> Regards, >>>>> --G >>>>> >>>>> Begin forwarded message: >>>>> >>>>> From: James Zaki<james.z...@gmail.com> >>>>> Date: 29 May 2009 22:24:06 BST >>>>> To: Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> >>>>> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] [SoaS] Request for Artwork: Boot Screen >>>>> I'm in touch with a design company who owes me a favour or two. >>>>> >>>>> I could get them to whip up some concept designs for inspiration? >>>>> >>>>> James >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> 2009/5/29 Gary C Martin<g...@garycmartin.com> >>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 21:37, Sean DALY wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Sebastian, Gary >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I'd like to take a stab at it, I've actually had an idea brewing for >>>>>>> awhile >>>>>> Cool, shout if you need extra hands/review. >>>>>> >>>>>> --G >>>>>> >>>>>>> What's the deadline please? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> thanks >>>>>>> Sean >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 8:54 PM, Gary C Martin >>>>>>> <g...@garycmartin.com> wrote: >>>>>>>> On 29 May 2009, at 18:41, Sebastian Dziallas wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Hi folks, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> sorry for the short notice, but this is rather urgent. I've been >>>>>>>>> spending yesterday afternoon to update the packages in our SoaS Yum >>>>>>>>> repo >>>>>>>>> to reflect the changes for Fedora 11. >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> As it turned out, the plymouth package has been partly rewritten, >>>>>>>>> and I >>>>>>>>> was wondering (also with regard to #709), how we wanted to deal >>>>>>>>> with a >>>>>>>>> new boot screen. For now, I've just implemented the old Sugar logo >>>>>>>>> again, but we might also want to have something more shiny (probably >>>>>>>>> with a progress bar). >>>>>>>> Some form of progress indicator would be a useful addition. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> I'm not really that good at art and the Sugar logo thing there was >>>>>>>>> at >>>>>>>>> first nothing more than a quick hack, so it'd would be really >>>>>>>>> great if >>>>>>>>> someone could have a look and work on such a boot screen. >>>>>>>> I'm happy to give it a look/shot from a graphics point of view if no >>>>>>>> one else steps forward. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> So. When did you need it by? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> OLPC is currently doing the same for their 1.5 software release, >>>>>>>>> which >>>>>>>>> gives us a good possibility to have a look at the file structure: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> http://www.freedesktop.org/~halfline/olpc.tar.bz2 >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Please let me know if there's anything I can help with. >>>>>>>> I'm new to plymouth, but looking at the content of olpc.tar.bz2 it >>>>>>>> seems simple. My main question is where should I look for the config >>>>>>>> that describes which images get loaded in what order. Perhaps the >>>>>>>> names just conform to some hardcoded protocol? How about the location >>>>>>>> of corner-image.png, perhaps hardcoded again? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I'm just downloading your latest Soas build so will have a dig in >>>>>>>> there to see what you have done already – I'm just wondering if this >>>>>>>> is really as easy as generating a bunch of png files with the correct >>>>>>>> file names :-) >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Regards, >>>>>>>> --Gary >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Thanks, >>>>>>>>> --Sebastian >>>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>>>> sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>>>> sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> Sugar-devel mailing list >>>>>> sugar-de...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >>>>> >>>>> >> > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) 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