On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Žygimantas Beručka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tr, 2008 10 29 19:15 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan rašė: >> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Hylke Bons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > It's quite funny to see how GNOME HIG advises to avoid body parts, but >> > the actual GNOME logo is a foot(print). >> > Do people in Thailand give the same reaction if the logo was a shoe? :) >> > If not http://tango.freedesktop.org/favicon.ico could be an option. >> >> This should not be too offensive, compared to the foot. >> So, in 3.0, our gnome gets better dressed somehow. ;) >> >> However, how about moving away from that part of the body? > > And how about making it optional at compile time or changing the foot > (e.g. by symlinking images) with something other at run-time if Thai (or > any other for that matter) locale is set? People love the GNOME foot and > I don't feel there is a real necessity to remove it completely just > because some cultures have weird associations or meanings of something, > or is it?
Personally, I love the foot, too. But general Thai people who are not familiar with GNOME don't. So, we have the difficulty in promotion. And actually, what I proposed was an 'alternative' logo. Regards, -- Theppitak Karoonboonyanan http://linux.thai.net/~thep/ -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list