113955 - Add background picture to Fizzilla disk image, enlarge icon size, and rename

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, enhancement, P4)

Description

[Greg K.]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:0.9.6) Gecko/20011120
BuildID:    2001112020

The appearance of the Fizzilla installer disk image can be improved by
performing two modifications:

1. Enlarge the icon to large size
2. Move the text to a background picture that incorporates the Mozilla.org logo
or perhaps the Fizzilla splash screen

Both of these can be done using the "Show View Options" View menu item in the
Mac OS X Finder.

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

Also, the toolbar should be hidden on the installer window.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Candidate disk image background image

Attaching a candidate background image for the disk. It consists of the
Fizzilla splash sreen graphic faded into the background, with the text embedded
thereon. The Mozilla folder gets placed into the lower-right corner in this
scheme.

Comment 3

[Greg K.]

Additionally, the disk image should have a volume name of "Mozilla for Mac OS X"
rather than "Mozilla for MacOS X".

Comment 4

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Candidate disk image volume window background image

Forgot to remove the drop shadow from the splash screen image. It's not
appropriate for a window background.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

Attachment: Screen shot of modified disk image volume window.

Comment 6

[Steve Dagley]

I'm reassigning the bug to jj since he builds the disk image 'installer' for 
Fizzilla, not syd.  I'll also comment that builds are currently done under Mac OS 
9 (it builds faster than under OS X) so it isn't really possible to do some of 
the things you ask.  The fact that we're using a DiskCopy image rather than a 
.dmg disk image is another issue.  Yes it would be a nice enhancment but I don't 
think our current build system will accomodate it.

Comment 7

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I said in bug 55819 that this would look unavoidably tacky, and I think 
attachment 60772 [details] demonstrates the tackiness quite well.

Comment 8

[Greg K.]

Perhaps, mpt. My mockup was intended to be a demonstration, after all. A good
designer could come up with something much better, I'm sure.

I must say that it's certainly no *less* tacky than the silly, hacked-up
invisible-folders-with-text-and-arrows that's on the OS X disk image now.
Wouldn't you agree?

Comment 9

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

I think invisible-folders-with-text-and-arrows are tacky no matter what they're
being compared to. But that's just me.

Comment 10

[J.J. Enser]

As long as our build automation is running under OS9, there is no other viable
solution but the tacky-invisible-folders-with-text-and-arrows.
(I looked into generating .DS_store files but quickly gave up since I couldn't
find any documentation on the structure of this binary file)

I'm currently trying to make this automation to run under X with minimum changes
to it. When this is complete and the cycle time has not increased by more than
about 15%, it will be worth spending time on a new packaging scheme using dmg
files with fancier Finder windows as we all would like to see them.

However, migrating the current applescript-based automation is not the focus of
the Release Team as I already explained. We'd much rather like to see OSX native
only tools (read no more MacPerl!) driven by Perl or shell scripts, just like
the current chimera automation.
When this happens, we'll implement a nice-looking package and window layout, I
promise.

Comment 11

[Greg K.]

Can this bug be fixed now that the transition to FizzillaMach has happened? It
would seem so.

Comment 12

[J.J. Enser]

I'll try to have this done for 1.3 final, but honestly, I have many other mach-o
related changes to make to the build & packaging automation that are way more
important than this.

Comment 13

[Greg K.]

It's obviously not that important. If you have a lot to do, I'd suggest you put
it off until 1.4a.

Comment 14

[Jo Hermans]

I think it's already solved : the Mozilla 1.3 disk image (release condidate)
came with a nice background picture.

Comment 15

[J.J. Enser]

Jo: Thank you for the "nice", given that the design comes from a release
engineer :-)

I found the first draft I did too sharp, but the more I look at this one, the
more I think it's too blur. I might replace it with a better one for 1.4.

If someone feels inspired, feel free to attach bitmaps to this bug. I'll
consider all suggestions.