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I started to work on initial Fedora installer mockup[1]. The concept is based on openSUSE first screen installer (GRUB) and uses design team default typefaces: Cantarell for the body and Comfortaa for the title. Because it is my first time exploring that kind of layout, suggestion and feedback are greatly welcome.
The idea came after reading Ananconda UX Redesign [1] aiming to bring more polish to the installer. More mockups will come based on feedback from UX Redesign.
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- -- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya@fedoraproject.org W: http://www.thefinalzone.net
Hi Luya!
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 01:42 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
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I started to work on initial Fedora installer mockup[1]. The concept is based on openSUSE first screen installer (GRUB) and uses design team default typefaces: Cantarell for the body and Comfortaa for the title. Because it is my first time exploring that kind of layout, suggestion and feedback are greatly welcome.
The idea came after reading Ananconda UX Redesign [1] aiming to bring more polish to the installer. More mockups will come based on feedback from UX Redesign.
I like the visual design of these mockups (although I'm not sure that Anaconda/GRUB have the fonts necessary available at that point in the boot process.)
I think it's fine to work through visual design ideas right now, but we haven't really begun a usability assessment of Anaconda so I also think it's a bit too early to start mocking up the UI screen-by-screen.
~m
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On 25/10/10 07:26 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
I like the visual design of these mockups (although I'm not sure that Anaconda/GRUB have the fonts necessary available at that point in the boot process.)
I was wondering about that case but seeing GRUB from other distributions show the possibility. Asking what fonts can be used on Anaconda will be helpful. The current incarnation feels so legacy.
I think it's fine to work through visual design ideas right now, but we haven't really begun a usability assessment of Anaconda so I also think it's a bit too early to start mocking up the UI screen-by-screen.
True. Looking at user issue on Anaconda will be a start as written on the wiki[1]. During the process I will learn more about usability assessment on such complex project.
Ref: - ----- [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Anaconda/UX_Redesign
- -- Luya Tshimbalanga Graphic & Web Designer E: luya@fedoraproject.org W: http://www.thefinalzone.net
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:20 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
On 25/10/10 07:26 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
I like the visual design of these mockups (although I'm not sure
that
Anaconda/GRUB have the fonts necessary available at that point in
the
boot process.)
I was wondering about that case but seeing GRUB from other distributions show the possibility. Asking what fonts can be used on Anaconda will be helpful. The current incarnation feels so legacy.
Totally agreed, I'll pop into #anaconda and see if they have any ideas about some of the constraints there.
I think it's fine to work through visual design ideas right now, but
we
haven't really begun a usability assessment of Anaconda so I also
think
it's a bit too early to start mocking up the UI screen-by-screen.
True. Looking at user issue on Anaconda will be a start as written on the wiki[1]. During the process I will learn more about usability assessment on such complex project.
Yep definitely, once F14 is out the door I definitely want to start working with the Anaconda team and post stuff here on-list as well as on the wiki. If you want to start, that would be awesome - we should probably map out what screens pop up in what order, DVD vs Live Media, and note any confusions or issues we encounter when running through it.
It's a good thing though I think to be looking at how other distros/OSs do it today, and to start thinking about the visual design, so thanks for getting started already Luya!
~m
Hi Luya,
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:20 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
On 25/10/10 07:26 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
I like the visual design of these mockups (although I'm not sure
that
Anaconda/GRUB have the fonts necessary available at that point in
the
boot process.)
I was wondering about that case but seeing GRUB from other distributions show the possibility. Asking what fonts can be used on Anaconda will be helpful. The current incarnation feels so legacy.
So I talked to Peter Jones & Chris Lumens in #anaconda, basically:
- syslinux & grub use system bitmap fonts so they can't use arbitrary fonts right now - anaconda can support any fonts X can support, so Comfortaa/Cantarell are possible here
Hope this helps!
~m
On 25/10/10 01:50 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
Hi Luya,
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:20 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
On 25/10/10 07:26 AM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
I like the visual design of these mockups (although I'm not sure
that
Anaconda/GRUB have the fonts necessary available at that point in
the
boot process.)
I was wondering about that case but seeing GRUB from other distributions show the possibility. Asking what fonts can be used on Anaconda will be helpful. The current incarnation feels so legacy.
So I talked to Peter Jones & Chris Lumens in #anaconda, basically:
- syslinux & grub use system bitmap fonts so they can't use arbitrary
fonts right now
- anaconda can support any fonts X can support, so Comfortaa/Cantarell
are possible here
Hope this helps!
~m
Cool! Thanks Máirín.
On 10/25/2010 11:50 PM, Máirín Duffy wrote:
On Mon, 2010-10-25 at 13:20 -0700, Luya Tshimbalanga wrote:
Asking what fonts can be used on Anaconda will be helpful. The current incarnation feels so legacy.
So I talked to Peter Jones& Chris Lumens in #anaconda, basically:
- anaconda can support any fonts X can support, so Comfortaa/Cantarell
are possible here
Still, I don't think we want to use there the "branding" fonts, but use instead for consistency the fonts that are used by default on the desktop once installed.
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