Potential for confusion in the boot splash?

Forum thread started by george on Mon, 2010-06-21 06:38

Hi all,

I'm wondering if the microchip icon in the boot splash might cause confusion?

See: http://dev.haiku-os.org/browser/haiku/trunk/data/artwork/boot_splash/spl...

There isn't a lot of difference between its dull and its bright state. If Haiku stalled while booting would a less tech-savy (or vision-impaired) user be able to describe where it stalled?

george

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Comments

Re: Potential for confusion in the boot splash?

by humdinger - 2010-06-21 13:07

Hi George,

these icons are really mostly eyecandy. As they won't help with a bughunt very much, since you can't pinpoint the failure, I don't think it's an especially crucial aspect that has to be fixed. However, if you'd like to work on improving it, go right ahead. :)
Since the inactive icons are also greyscale, I could imagine a touch of colour would make the active state more obvious. Maybe a small green/golden cpu circuit board in the middle would work well.

Regards,
Humdinger

Re: Potential for confusion in the boot splash?

by phoudoin - 2010-06-23 18:21

> Since the inactive icons are also greyscale,
> I could imagine a touch of colour would make the active state more obvious.

+1, but see below.

> Maybe a small green/golden cpu circuit board in the middle would work well.

The two main issues with this icon http://www.haiku-os.org/sites/all/modules/bueditor/icons/separator.pngare, indeed,

  1. it lacks color in active state
  2. it doesn't look like a cpu chip but some generic or at best old microchip.

This boot stage is all about CPU-specific initialization, not memory or whatever other chip kind.

If someone could come with a great-looking icon which could fix this two issues at once, I guess everybody will agreed to switch for it.
I know I will.
For both cosmestic *and* icon meaning clarity reasons.