#175 Welcome video for gnome-tour
Closed: Fixed 3 years ago by kalev. Opened 3 years ago by aday.

GNOME has a new welcome tour, which launches immediately after initial setup finishes. This is the point at which the user enters their desktop for the first time, and would be a great moment to inject some uplifting energy into the first run experience.

The first page of the tour is fairly plain in its stock form. The idea was that distros could add their own graphics or video there, as a signature moment. What I'd really like to see for Fedora is a short video, in the form of a logo reveal. A few examples:


Side note: there was some separate talk about doing a branded first time boot video too - this would be an animated transition from boot progress to the initial setup session (along the lines of the one that Ubuntu did for the Sputnik laptops).

I'm not sure exactly what the plan is here, but it could be worth bearing in mind for the animation design.

Initial concept for the logo transition -- emphasize speed (spedometer):
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I like the positive energy in this and it looks cool!

It would be good to think about how the animation fits with the other elements on the page: it would be neat if the welcome text could reveal as part of the animation, or appear after it finishes.

But we should also figure out what's technically possible before we spend too much time on this...

Here's a more complete intro for that speedometer concept. I can imagine the 'welcome' part of the animation to be a translatable label animated with a css animation, just offset to the video length, no callback fanciness needed.

129-fedora0001-0220.mp4

It might be too last-minute to get this in place for F33, but there has been some work upstream to enable the videos, and we should at least make sure that we're happy with the appearance of the new tour.

Metadata Update from @aday:
- Issue set to the milestone: Fedora 33

3 years ago

Metadata Update from @chrismurphy:
- Issue tagged with: meeting

3 years ago

Metadata Update from @aday:
- Issue set to the milestone: None (was: Fedora 33)

3 years ago

Current state: Screencast_from_11-08-20_100119.webm

This seems like a good start and the fact that we're in with a shot of having a video for F33 is a pleasant surprise! That said, there is some room for improvement, either for this or future releases.

First, it would be better to have the video run without the text and controls being visible - they feel a bit distracting.

Second, I'm not quite sure we're striking the emotional note I was aiming for. The idea was for this page to be warm and welcoming, but also exciting and uplifting. It could be the first time someone has seen a Fedora desktop and we want it to feel like a moment. One option would be to go for a larger, longer video, with richer content (or combinations therefore). Also, I wonder if the video content could connect with the context a bit more, and be more obviously a welcome/introduction.

That sounds like we want something similar to what Apple used to do with Mac OS X:

This video would transition seamlessly to the initial setup wizard, and it'd be nice to have something similar.

I can't help seeing the logo wagging its tail. Maybe that's not a problem

First, it would be better to have the video run without the text and controls being visible - they feel a bit distracting.

At the same time, as a keen gamer, watching unskippable cut scenes is the most annoying thing, especially when you'd be going through the initial setup on multiple boxes.

I can't help seeing the logo wagging its tail. Maybe that's not a problem

As the speed/speedometer riff isn't as obvious here's an initial attempt at something more generic (without a lot of follow-through yet).

rgb-fedora2.webm

That looks uncontroversial.

Keep in mind that any animation that uses the current Fedora logo is necessarily temporary. Probably not a great use of time to spend tons of effort on this now if we're going to have a completely new logo in F34 or F35.

With the way things are currently in legal, we should just go ahead with the current logo. Hopefully updating it in the video won't be that much added effort.

Some animation fidelity added:

First, it would be better to have the video run without the text and controls being visible - they feel a bit distracting.

At the same time, as a keen gamer, watching unskippable cut scenes is the most annoying thing, especially when you'd be going through the initial setup on multiple boxes.

Heh, well I wasn't imagining a feature-length video :laughing:

But if we do make the video any longer, and this does prove to be an issue, maybe we could have a separate escape hatch, like a close button on the window.

Metadata Update from @chrismurphy:
- Issue untagged with: meeting

3 years ago

WG discussed this at last week's meeting and think this is on the right track.

Im definitely like the reduction of the spedometer bit.. which made me stressed. I like the new version better.. but, I think Im with @aday that I feel like it being a bit slower might be better.

However, I did like the "paint brush" effect in the original(ish) versions.

OK, I have gnome-tour packaged now and waiting for review (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1873108). I used jimmac's latest video there -- I'll talk to him next week when he's back from PTO and see if he wants to update anything in the video after langdon's comment above.

OK, it passed the package review. I've now requested a FE to include it in F33 Beta: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1873206

@jimmac, are you happy with the way the video looks now? Do you want to change anything based on https://pagure.io/fedora-workstation/issue/175#comment-671652 or should we close the ticket now?

comment-671652 refers to an iteration that still had the speedometer, which is no longer the case.

Screenshot_from_2020-09-14_14-14-25.png

However the video does seem too large at the current size (1440x720px), making the layout of the first page somewhat broken. (before HiDPI is addressed -- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-tour/-/issues/22). The video below is half the res (720x360px) and should look way better in place (and a bit fuzzy at HiDPI for now):

rgb-fedora3.webm

Thanks @jimmac! I went ahead and updated the package in https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/gnome-tour/c/7d4d295300d17d2b23e00cf5a9d19db27626ac70?branch=f33 (gnome-tour-3.37.92-2.fc33)

As it stands now, we'll ship F33 Beta with the previous video (and this one will land for F33 Final) -- is this is a problem? Should we ask for a freeze exception to land this earlier (in Beta)?

I don't think it's worth fixing for the beta.

OK :) Thanks, jakub! Let me know if you want to update the video again.

Metadata Update from @kalev:
- Issue close_status updated to: Fixed
- Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)

3 years ago

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