Oh my, the before shot is quite incorrect. What you need to do is open slides/Slideshow.html, or PlaySlideshow.sh. Your browser must have Javascript enabled for it to function. There are lots of little guidelines and tips in the Readme file that gets distributed with the project, and I have added fairly extensive comments in different places. (Let me know if I've missed a spot). The individual slides are really small snippets of HTML; not full HTML documents.
Interestingly, we have a similar thing going on with the borders on the top and bottom, although yours consume a bit less space. If you're feeling adventurous, it should be possible to modify the existing slides/link/general.css to create a style very much like what you have here. I see what you did for the writing. Kind of cute :) I don't think the bold / italicised text is necessary - at least not as frequently as done here. (On which topic, that "installation is finishing soon" bit probably doesn't need to be highlighted like that. Your way is nice; just leaving that information to Ubiquity's progress bar). I agree about placing stuff in special visual contexts. Neat idea with the address bar, although I felt myself wanting to click the dropdown arrow since it looks like a combo box full of URLs... and people generally associate blue / underlined text with URLs. In some other cases, though, especially where people aren't as familiar with what we are showing them, it sure makes sense. This is something I found pretty funny: The existing design uses the release's wallpaper, too. Depending on what the art team does (and whether it makes me want to tear my eyes out) it should be using the release's alternative wallpaper as a background so it doesn't clash with anything. I'm liking the more imaginative use of colours for text. My text is all plain white and plain black, so a proper accent colour would be really fun to tinker with. Thanks for the mockup! Dylan McCall On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:26 AM, H S<[email protected]> wrote: > After some discussion with Dylan at > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-doc/2009-June/013257.html, I > decided to put together a mockup of what I think the slides could look > like. Talking with Dylan, we decided this mailing list would be a good > place to make it known. > > So, please, I invite you to visit my mockup at > http://ubuntuwtf.wordpress.com/2009/06/18/my-mockup-suggestion-for-ubiquity-slideshow/ > I would have tried to put it up on the Launchpad page, but forgive me, I > found Launchpad far too confusing of a noob like me. In any case, I look > forward to hearing your comments and suggestions. I put no small amount of > time and love into creating this mockup, so please don't be shy. I am very > interested to know what you think. > > Thanks, > > Howard "Freeman" Stellar. > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ubiquity-slideshow Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ubiquity-slideshow More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
