[indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] General Branding Experience for Indiana

[Anil Gulecha]

On 9/12/07, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> One issue that probably requires some thought is the general branding experience
> of Indiana from a user point of view - that is, the user experience from when
> that first LiveCD enters the CD-ROM tray and comes up on the system, to them
> installing it on the disk.
>
> While everyone probably has a good idea of what would likely happen, we need to
> start getting specific right down to the specifics, from the content in the
> installer [1], to the desktop background and the default homepage of Firefox
> [2]. There are lots of opportunities to get our brand across, and provide useful
> information for the new user - but what, where and when?
>
> What?
> =====
> >From my perspective, I'd really like to promote the OpenSolaris community brand,
> and create a sense of pride and ownership for what we have created. I think
> whatever we do needs to be simple, not overly cluttered, and highlight some of
> the great technologies that the user has access to either directly, or over the
> network, along with detailing how to get help [3] if required and access to
> commercial support from a list of vendors offering it.
>
> Where?
> ======
> These are the locations I can think of off the top of my head - are there
> others? Can we think outside the box of an improved experience that we don't
> currently provide?
>
>  o GRUB Splash
>  o uname -a [!!?]
>  o Login Screen
>  o Login Splash (can we lose the icons/text?)
>  o Desktop Background
>  o Panel/menu setup
>  o Desktop icon/window/widget theme
>  o Firefox homepage
>  o Desktop icons
>  o Installer screens
>  o Screensaver
>  o Others?
>

A very desirable feature would be a ubuntu (fiesty) and windows (xp)
like completely silent graphical bootup, wiht opensolaris wide and
bright, with an optional progress bar , and optional console view if
required. Opensolaris would take anywhere from 30 to 100 seconds to
bootup and this logo would stand out. (I'm a big fan of Feisty's
ubuntu logo, BTW).

Perhaps this is what you meant by

>  o Login Splash (can we lose the icons/text?)

Anil