Preview the new Installation slides for Ubuntu 10.04

By , Published March 11, 2010

The proposed slides for inclusion in the Ubuntu 10.04 installer have been made available to preview on line.

The slides, which play during installation of Ubuntu, have been redesigned to fit in with the new branding of Ubuntu 10.04 .

For anyone unfamiliar with the installer slide show the slides play during the ‘actual’ installation of Ubuntu to your hardrive and are designed to succinctly and briefly introduce new users to key applications and concepts within Ubuntu. Dylan McCall, one of the developers of the slideshow, further stresses the importance of the slideshow on his blog, saying: -

The idea is really summed up in the first slide: Through this I want to encourage new users to explore Ubuntu and really discover how awesome it is (instead of what buttons to press).

Separate slide-shows for each of the main Ubuntu ‘spins’, including Ubuntu Netbook Remix, are currently planned.

To view the proposed slides online vists http://people.ubuntu.com/~dylanmccall/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/redesign-lucid/ubuntu-transitions/slides/index.html#controls

Article originally appeared on omgubuntu.co.uk

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  • DoR

    I hope the Ubuntu logo in the first slide isn’t final, it looks off to me.

    • http://pensieriacoriandoli.blogspot.com/ Giorg

      You’re right, I was just about to point that out! I just hope it doesn’t respect new official “proportions”, it just sucks. Moreover it’s even off-centered.

    • http://dylantaylor.wordpress.com/ aliendude5300

      I agree, it looks VERY off… really a bad impression IMO.

      • http://www.twitter.com/LoverBoyV LoverBoyV

        Actually all of the pictures are off. It was bothering me the entire way through

        • http://dylantaylor.wordpress.com/ aliendude5300

          Ah… I see that… I only briefly looked at the slides. Yeah, that gives a terrible impression… This really needs to be fixed up.

          • Anonymous

            try this….unmaximize the browser window and make it smaller than the slide page (vertically)
            after that, scroll up and down….you will find that the logos and main titles move as part of the background!!….amazing stuff, eh?
            this is just to say that this is just a mockup….don’t worry too much about the details

          • http://wakoopa.com/yo2boy yo2boy

            I noticed that too! (checked the html source; it’s the javascript) It’s pretty funny.

          • http://dylanmccall.blogspot.com/ Dylan McCall

            Actually it’s the CSS. As I briefly mentioned in my blog post, the preview I have is a spur of the moment implementation of the mockup. Lots of stuff to do to get all the images properly centred (circles are HARD!), and the logo is definitely just a stand-in. Still waiting for the official one :)

            The story with the scrolling problem is that the new look made the scrolling transition completely nonsensical at the top, so I needed to disable it for the title and icon. The quickest possible fix was to add the position:fixed property for both of them.

            It’s a terrible, terrible thing to do, but it actually wouldn’t hurt in the end since the thing expects to be inside an 816x500px Webkit Webview, so no scrolling should happen. Still, I would be deeply upset with myself if it shipped with such a hack :b

  • Anonymous

    Looks very sexy !! 8-)

  • Mohan

    They should add gwibber and tell people it’s used for fb and twitter in the IM slide, as well in the Music and Movies slide they should let people know about the music store.

  • Anonymous

    The new branding really is growing better each day, first the software centre and now this little gem!

    Is it me though or are all the icons/symbols in the web preview slightly off centre from the circle behind them?

  • nomono

    It looks really good (the dots especially). Just a few things:
    - they should mention Ubuntu One Music Store in the music slide
    - they should not encourage users to install .deb packages. ex-windows users will infect their system with viruses in the same way they did with .exe installers. .deb package should be the last option for newbies, better if they don’t know about that at all :)
    - the icons on the right side do not look centered

    • nomono

      (i mean centered in the ‘bubble)

    • http://dylanmccall.blogspot.com/ Dylan McCall

      Thanks! I agree on all three counts :)

      The software centre is considerably more awesome now, so it shouldn’t be hard to put useful stuff there. (It would be nice if there was and EASY web service specifically to request that a specific piece of software be packaged, though. Hmmm…).

  • hansioux

    since Rhythmbox is still going to be the default music player… is it so hard to ask for “Album Artist” ID3 field to be made available in Rhythmbox?

    • hugmyballs

      No, it’s easy. But you shouldn’t be asking here.

  • Ubuntu4life

    Really nice, but where is the aubergine?

    • http://dylanmccall.blogspot.com/ Dylan McCall

      Look closely at the hyperlinks and squint :)

  • Anonymous
  • Anonymous

    the sweet old music-box from breathe … :D

  • Karakh

    Almost as pretty as the Windows XP installation screens…

    I really hope that this is just a bad mock-up.

  • Anonymous

    It’s really sweet. But the Ubuntu-Logo in “Welcome” is out of place. I miss more stuffs anounced … like: “Ubuntu-Music-Store”, “gbrainy”, … Always the slideshow stops for me very soon and there are 15-20 minutes more for show. ;)

  • http://shiba89.wordpress.com/ Shiba

    “Plug in an MP3 player to start synchronizing your music collection, or insert a CD to copy its music to your computer.”

    Does this mean by any chance that the new Ubuntu comes with an mp3 plugin for GStreamer by default?

    • Anonymous

      audio cds don’t have mp3s and some mp3 players can play ogg and flac media
      ….yes, even I looked at it and scratched my head until i got it

  • Chris

    Why do most of the slides have the application logo, but Firefox doesn’t? If anything, it’s something new users might be likely to recognise.

    • http://omgubuntu.co.uk/ d0od

      That’s possibly to do with Mozilla and Firefox logo trademark issues rather than a slight against Firefox.

    • http://dylanmccall.blogspot.com/ Dylan McCall

      It was a trademark thing. Originally we were modifying the logo to make it fit the old theme, and we were worried that Mozilla could get picky about it. (Just a reflection with the icon intact, but we didn’t want to cause any trouble). Karmic used the icon already installed on the system, but that one was smaller than the rest so looked a bit ugly.

      Shouldn’t be a problem to just ship an officially sanctioned Mozilla Firefox icon now, though; they specifically permit its use for a document promoting it, which this, err, can be :)

      • Anonymous

        From the slideshow “Your Tomboy notes and Evolution contacts are synced automatically across all of your computers.” — Is tomboy setup automatically now?

  • Guest

    Testing.

    • http://twitter.com/NtynRuben Ruben Verhack

      Did it work?

  • Anonymous

    Yay, that’s fantastic! It looks great…

    … apart from some of the icons not aligned properly, but no doubt this will be fixed.

    Awesome!

  • hugmyballs

    Looks good, but here are some comments/observations.

    1. On the welcome screen the third bullet point is strangely worded. The last sentence of the last bullet starts with ‘So’ as if it followed from the previous sentence(s), but it doesn’t. It’s just poorly worded in general. They could use the Welcome slide to be market Ubuntu as a “cutting edge, powerful and flexible” OS.

    2. The Firefox slide should use the Firefox logo. I imagine they’ll add this later.

    3. The Evolution slide should specify that it’s a full-featured PIM with, not just a calendar and email client, but also task manager, etc. and good integration between these components.

    4. The Empathy slide might say something about the ability to *video* chat.

    5. The Office slide says that you can create *letters* (for Writer), spreadsheets (for Calc), etc. But instead of ‘letters’, they should use the more general ‘documents’.

  • http://ubuntuzoom.com/ Lucid_Lynx

    Why the icons aren’t centered?

    • hugmyballs

      If you haven’t noticed, and I suppose you haven’t, 5000 other people have already commented on this. Can you come back tomorrow and mention it again?

  • Simone

    I like it!!

    Just a thought. These slides contain a lot of useful, fast information for a new user. I suggest to let the user to watch again these slides after installation.
    This could be done by adding:
    - slides in the Examples directory (if it still exists in Lucid),
    - a slides.html file on desktop,
    - a section in the Help, like “Slides for a quick start”,
    - showing a notification at the first launch, “You can watch again the installation slides by doing…”
    In this second version, after installation, I’d also add at the bottom of each slide the path to quickly find a program (Applications>Audio>Rhythmbox), like it is yet done in Help. http://img715.imageshack.us/img715/2363/firefoxw.png

  • Anonymous

    What is the point with freezes when they don’t follow them?

    • http://dylanmccall.blogspot.com/ Dylan McCall

      What can I say? I suck at reading calendars :(

      (And doing hobby projects on time; university is hard).

      Having said that, the only group this has a potentially negative impact on is the translation team, since all the feedback has kicked off more string changes than were originally going to happen. Hopefully they won’t mind too much, although I do feel kinda bad because it harkens back to the messy timing this had for Karmic.

      • Anonymous

        Don’t feel to bad about yourself, you do a good job! It’s not only you, it’s just that there are so many projects that are late with new looks at the same time. I was actually more surprised about the changes in the software center.

  • http://root-asian.host56.com shnkr3

    Preview: diapositivas de instalación de nuevas versiones de Ubuntu 10.04 http://bit.ly/deFw3t