Bug 155327

Summary: Welcome Background Image of Language Selection
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Bernhard Heibler <spameman>
Component: InstallationAssignee: Stefan Hundhammer <shundhammer>
Status: RESOLVED INVALID QA Contact: Klaus Kämpf <kkaempf>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None CC: jsuchome, matz, suse-beta
Version: Beta 6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: SuSE Linux 10.1   
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Found By: Third Party Developer/Partner Services Priority:
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Marketing QA Status: --- IT Deployment: ---
Attachments: Welcome Screen

Description Bernhard Heibler 2006-03-05 20:56:04 UTC 
The background image of the language selection dialog looks in some way misplaced.  Looks like the KDE Welcome screen from Suse 9.1 ? In SuSE 10.0 I thought that the background mode of the dialog was set to opaque by accident and some remainings of the boot screen are shining through. Is this intended this way ? Sorry I'm not a graphic designer but I think just a plane background will look far better. The existing graphics doesn't match with the good looking design of the boot screen etc ...
Comment 1 Bernhard Heibler 2006-03-05 20:58:43 UTC 
Created attachment 71279 [details]
Welcome Screen
Comment 2 Michael Matz 2006-03-09 15:39:54 UTC 
The whole dialog box has a broken layout, the language list not using up
all (or even a sensibly large) amount of space available.  Bad initial
impression, hence I think this deserves more than minor.
Comment 4 Stefan Hundhammer 2006-03-09 18:07:24 UTC 
This is intentional.

Again, this is the result of neverending usability discussions. You really don't want to see the alternatives that were seriously proposed.

And yes, this IS the old KDM background. The idea is to greet the user in multiple languages because the user's native language is not known at this point. We consider that approach a lot more friendly than only an English welcome text - which according to long experience I know would be misused as a place for advertisements for all kinds of other things.

If somebody comes up with a better image that serves the same purpose (and works in that environment), he is welcome. But so far this is the best we have.