Dylan, Ooops. Sorry, I didn't realize your original version of slide appeared somewhat differently than I had thought. It was an honest mistake. I just opened up the html file, and assumed that was it. Well, I've taken a new screenshot of it running in my browser, and updated my blog. Now it's a fair comparison.
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Dylan McCall <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >
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