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[Mika Meskanen <mika.meskanen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yeah, based on what I can imagine from descriptions so far, I think 
zooming/morphing the login box in the magnitude mentioned here is 
superfluous and dilutes the Greeter-Desktop connection established by 
having the wallpaper and menu bar in the greeter.

Still, we can fade the menu bar from its translucent greeter state to 
its solid desktop state. Perhaps also slide in the launcher when Unity 
is ready, as mentioned here. That be seamless and signal when the system 
is ready.

The login box could morph in a couple of situations though: e.g. when 
the user goes to Desktop Environment selection, or when a more complex 
dialogue, like password change is presented.

We could also do something with sliding boxes… some tentative design 
work can be seen here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MT5Qrouudu9EftJdbtuz-Z1l26bDUDlcpPD52YsABYM/edit?hl=en_GB&pli=1#heading=h.afowxbl00dr4

I think for 12.10 we could treat this as an end-to-end journey and 
specify all touchpoints and transitions from bootup to login to lock to 
unlock to logout and shutdown :)


Thanks,
Mika


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On 17/02/12 16:17, Yann Brelière wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 17:06, Ian Santopietro <isantop@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:isantop@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
>
>     That's better, but I still feel like it's putting emphasis on the
>     wrong parts of the system. It gives the impression the the login
>     screen is what controls everything else, which clearly isn't
>     actually the case.
>
>     The login box sliding off the screen doesn't place any undue
>     emphasis on any particular part of the system and it isn't as
>     misleading as the zoom effect would be. It also doesn't require any
>     advanced compositing, making it better suited for running on lower
>     end hardware, and provides a visual experience that would be less
>     jarring.
>
>     --Ian Santopietro
>
> An even simpler and less obtrusive solution would be a soft fade out /
> fade in of everything except the background (which is the only thing
> that doesn't change) and the top panel (for which a transition between
> the translucent and opaque style could be made, but only if the same
> would happen for the panel when opening/closing the dash, to keep things
> cohesive).
>
> --
> Yann