On Aug 22, 2006, at 7:58 PM, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: > Hi guys > > We had a fantastic experience at LinuxWorld San Francisco last > week, with tremendous interest in the community and commercial > stands for Ubuntu at the expo. Jane briefed me on feedback from the > conference, and there were a couple of items that I think are worth > passing on to you, because they relate to the branding and style of > the desktop. > > The first comment was that the "big bold brand" of the GDM login > screen is very visible and that people LOVE to have their desktops > configured to show this login screen at conferences. I think we > want to preserve that goodwill - whatever new login we select for > Edgy should have the same characteristics: > > * large, prominent Ubuntu name and logo > * distinctive colour > > Similarly, in many presentations, even though the presenter was > showing an application, or slides, or web pages, it was clear that > they were using Ubuntu because the desktop is so distinctive. In > this case I think we are on the right track for Edgy because all of > the concepts I've seen preserve the "brown" feel - and in fact many > that I have seen are even better than ones we've had in the past. > > So please bear the importance of bold, clear, distinctive looks in > mind! > > Mark > -- > ubuntu-art mailing list > ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
Hey Mark, I'm glad to hear about those experiences. :) I also share the enthusiasm about the Ubuntu login screen. It's a very powerful login screen because of the prominence of the logo right in the middle of it, and due to its simplicity. It very well conveys the feeling that Ubuntu itself wishes to convey, and even if someone doesn't know the system at all, it's powerful enough to make one want to get closer and figure out which operating system that login screen belongs to. It's a little unfortunate that the "shut down", "restart", etc. buttons are now in a drop-down box, which I think kind of seems out of place when opened. I'd rather have those buttons on the GDM screen itself, like Breezy did. Maybe that is something to consider. Although I personally will spend time elsewhere than trying to improve on the GDM theme. > Similarly, in many presentations, even though the presenter was > showing an application, or slides, or web pages, it was clear that > they were using Ubuntu because the desktop is so distinctive. In > this case I think we are on the right track for Edgy because all of > the concepts I've seen preserve the "brown" feel - and in fact many > that I have seen are even better than ones we've had in the past. I think that a lot of it is also the heavy contrast that is associated with Ubuntu. We've got dark brown to work with which is then contrasted against full white. It's different from Fedora Core 5, which uses "plain vanilla" blue, a tried and true but not as interesting combination. Given, blue does work very well in operating system design because it can be both very bright and lush as well as dark and contrasting, but brown is simply much more distinctive. I do find it too bad that it lacks the ability to work as well in bright shades as blue, which is why I applaud the direction towards combining brown with orange and even yellow/red hue accents that Dapper made possible. Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-art mailing list ubuntu-art@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-art
