305717 - Disk image background image is confusing (dmg)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Camino Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I just saw the new disk image packaging for the first time (on a branch build).

I think the new disk image background is just plain confusing. I see that it's
trying to communicate to the user about dragging Camino to the Applications
folder and ejecting the disk image without using text, but it took me too long
to figure that out. I think many users will try to interact with components of
the blue "instructions", and just get frustrated.

Also, the big "eyeball" with the camino icon in the center is scarey-looking.

Comment 1

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Attachment: What it looks like

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

One thing I've seen on another disk image is to actually create a symlink to
/Applications on the disk image, so that the folder is right there and the user
can drag the app into it.

Comment 3

[u49640]

Attachment: Cut off Background

Actually, it looks like this (the lower part of the image is cut off)
Even if you keep the image, you should make the Window large enough to show all
of it

Running 10.4.2

Comment 4

[Smokey Ardisson (offline for a while; not following bugs - do not email)]

Comment 3 is bug 305369.

Comment 5

[Jasper]

Attachment: new disk image background

This is a new background image for the disk image. I removed the big "eye" on
the background and I made sure the diagram is now less looking like a
"clickable object" but more and integrated part of the window.

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Do we actually want the pictorial instructions?

Comment 7

[Mark Mentovai]

Comment on attachment 195149 [details]
new disk image background

As discussed on irc, this doesn't have enough dead space - it needs 35px at the
bottom :(

Comment 8

[Jasper]

Attachment: new disk image top side now

K so I solved the absurd padding issues by just moving the whole diagram to the
top. Looks pretty darn good to me.

Simon: the reason why we want a diagram is that we wanted somthing to explain
the install process without text. So that we don't have trouble with
localising. Also FF and TB now also have this same kind of diagram to explain
the install process.

Comment 9

[Mark Mentovai]

Attachment: New icon (checked in)

Jasper also provided this new icon for the dmg.

Comment 10

[Mark Mentovai]

Attachment: New .DS_Store (checked in)

look, ma, hand-made!

Comment 11

[Mark Mentovai]

Attachment: Picture of what it's supposed to look like after assembly

Comment 12

[Mark Mentovai]

Getting this in for 1.0a1 so that we can make use of user feedback.  I'm also
expecting to have various body parts read to us with regard to the ugly pain of
a license.

Comment 13

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

The interweb agrees with me:
http://softwaretrenches.com/2006/09/dmg_disk_image_is_the.html