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<d...@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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Sugar-devel mailing list > > Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org > > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel > > > -- anyth...@christianmarcschmidt.com http://www.christianmarcschmidt.com 917/ 575 0013
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