[yast-devel] Let's make YaST more attractive
Hi, yast hackers, One of the action items of last YaST workshop was to make YaST look cool and sexy so that it is more attractive to our users. We have already make a great step towards achieving this goal, but we're somehow omitting two target groups: 1. text-mode (ncurses) users and 2. female audience. But our interface still lacks warm, soft, pastel colour shades that are so appealing to many women, so they may feel uncomfortable using YaST. This new default skin for xterm terminals tries to kill two birds with one stone: http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Pink-yast.jpg It gives entirely new look to text-mode interface and at the same time, is makes it very attractive for girls and women. It will be part of yast2-ncurses 2.16.21, that will come out of Factory very soon. Enjoy! frozenB. -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter
Am Dienstag 01 April 2008 schrieb Katarina Machalkova:
It gives entirely new look to text-mode interface and at the same time, is makes it very attractive for girls and women. It will be part of yast2-ncurses 2.16.21, that will come out of Factory very soon. Enjoy!
Dear Hedgehog, I welcome your efforts in increasing the attractiveness of the text-mode to girls, but I think some well placed hearts are lacking. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Stephan Kulow <coolo@kde.org> wrote: Am Dienstag 01 April 2008 schrieb Katarina Machalkova: It gives entirely new look to text-mode interface and at the same time, is makes it very attractive for girls and women. It will be part of yast2-ncurses 2.16.21, that will come out of Factory very soon. Enjoy!
Dear Hedgehog,
I welcome your efforts in increasing the attractiveness of the text-mode to girls, but I think some well placed hearts are lacking.
A small mockup for you: ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ YAST2 CONTENT FRAMES ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ with all the nice colors and all the ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ great content we are used from ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ YaST2 ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
Katarina Machalkova wrote:
Hi, yast hackers,
One of the action items of last YaST workshop was to make YaST look cool and sexy so that it is more attractive to our users. We have already make a great step towards achieving this goal, but we're somehow omitting two target groups: 1. text-mode (ncurses) users and 2. female audience.
But our interface still lacks warm, soft, pastel colour shades that are so appealing to many women, so they may feel uncomfortable using YaST.
This new default skin for xterm terminals tries to kill two birds with one stone: http://en.opensuse.org/Image:Pink-yast.jpg
It gives entirely new look to text-mode interface and at the same time, is makes it very attractive for girls and women. It will be part of yast2-ncurses 2.16.21, that will come out of Factory very soon. Enjoy!
frozenB.
Where are the hearts?!!! ♡ Also I think you should indicate the active theme with a ♀ in the status bar. Actually unicode has some nice symbols I ignore if ncurses is able to display them correctly. For example we use [X] for checkboxes, but there is ☑ and ☒. Could we use that? As you are forgetting death metal music fans, I want also a black theme with lot of ☠ everywhere!, a green one with ☮ for hippies. We could also show ♲ to indicate our software is recycled, not that we like to accumulate old and ugly code LOL. Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
* Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@suse.de> [Apr 01. 2008 12:14]:
As you are forgetting death metal music fans, I want also a black theme with lot of ☠ everywhere!, a green one with ☮ for hippies.
And, while we're at it, I'd recommend to also increase the attractiveness for younger openSUSE enthusiasts, namely kids. They usually love colorful themes, making use of all available colors. Except for boys of course, who never use pink or purple ;-) Klaus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
Dňa Tuesday 01 April 2008 12:22:22 Klaus Kaempf ste napísal:
* Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@suse.de> [Apr 01. 2008 12:14]:
As you are forgetting death metal music fans, I want also a black theme with lot of ☠ everywhere!, a green one with ☮ for hippies.
And, while we're at it, I'd recommend to also increase the attractiveness for younger openSUSE enthusiasts, namely kids.
They usually love colorful themes, making use of all available colors.
Except for boys of course, who never use pink or purple ;-)
Sounds like we really need a YaST Theme SDK. Daemon, your theme selector really needs additional feature here. Stano -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
Stanislav Visnovsky napsal(a):
Dňa Tuesday 01 April 2008 12:22:22 Klaus Kaempf ste napísal:
* Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett <dmacvicar@suse.de> [Apr 01. 2008 12:14]:
As you are forgetting death metal music fans, I want also a black theme with lot of ☠ everywhere!, a green one with ☮ for hippies. And, while we're at it, I'd recommend to also increase the attractiveness for younger openSUSE enthusiasts, namely kids.
They usually love colorful themes, making use of all available colors.
Except for boys of course, who never use pink or purple ;-)
Sounds like we really need a YaST Theme SDK. Daemon, your theme selector really needs additional feature here.
Oh yes, for instance: [x] Use skulls all over the place [x] Use 'cool' speech if possible [ ] Play random guitar riff on error :) ;) Thx L.
Hello, On Apr 1 12:22 Klaus Kaempf wrote (shortened):
They usually love colorful themes, making use of all available colors.
http://www.muellseite.de/mmx03.htm Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
* Johannes Meixner <jsmeix@suse.de> [Apr 01. 2008 14:15]:
Hello,
On Apr 1 12:22 Klaus Kaempf wrote (shortened):
They usually love colorful themes, making use of all available colors.
Perfect. It just needs a boys-only mode which ensures that neither pink or purple are displayed. Klaus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
On Apr 1 12:22 Klaus Kaempf wrote (shortened):
They usually love colorful themes, making use of all available colors. http://www.muellseite.de/mmx03.htm
Wow! It took me a while to regain consciousness after that :-) We definitely need an epilepsy warning on our products, if we do this.
It just needs a boys-only mode which ensures that neither pink or purple are displayed.
Of course we need to ask the user his gender during installation :-) Cu, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz@novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
Martin Schmidkunz wrote:
Of course we need to ask the user his gender during installation :-)
I am pretty sure we can come up with good algorithms for auto-detection :-) Duncan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org
participants (9)
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Dominique Leuenberger -
Duncan Mac-Vicar Prett -
Johannes Meixner -
Katarina Machalkova -
Klaus Kaempf -
Lukas Ocilka -
Martin Schmidkunz -
Stanislav Visnovsky -
Stephan Kulow