Robert Pollak wrote:
> I filed http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114061 . In a comment on that bug Boris Zbarsky claimed that this was a duplicate of an existing bug. (If so, this wouldn't surprise me in the least.) The Greg Kolanek document referenced below references a several bugs that appear to be related to this topic. > Feel free to vote there, but please, as I say there: > > !Important: Any advocacy should be continued in the newsgroup! > > Use bugzilla only for *comments* *about* *technical* *problems* of > fixing this. Yes. By this time everyone is familar with all the arguments about use of the star in Mozilla-related graphics. I personally agree that use of the star should be discontinued in the Mozilla binaries distributed through mozilla.org. (We can't control what anyone else does in their own Mozilla-based products.) I am also willing to help get this changed, using whatever influence I posess. I do _not_ need to read any more advocacy postings on this subject. What we need now is actual work to produce alternative graphics that are technically suitable for the various Mozilla platforms, and consistent with other graphics used in the context of the Mozilla project. We also need some work to straighten out the legal issues around the various Mozilla images and how they are used in the context of Mozilla distributions. (This latter task is one for mozilla.org staff, and is not necessarily straightforward -- which is one reason there's been no total overhaul of the Mozilla icons and images yet.) > By the way, I would propose the blue gecko of the windows icons or the > mozilla-'m' in order to avoid any red/green lizard color problems ;) IMO we should _not_ use the blue gecko currently used on the Windows distributions of Mozilla -- that image was originally used by Netscape in the context of their "Netscape Gecko" product (basically a Netscape-branded version of the Mozilla Gecko layout engine), and I believe may have even been registered as a Netscape trademark. (The US Patent and Trademark database shows a filing with serial number 75605466 which may related to this.) Hence IMO the blue gecko should not be used in any software distributed by mozilla.org. IMO the Mozila desktop icon on all platforms should be the red dinosaur head by itself (i.e., no star) -- basically a larger version of the graphic that is now used with the mozilla.org site and the "favicon" feature. Note that such a desktop icon is included in the version of Mozilla distributed with Red Hat Linux 7.2, and I believe with the Linux version distributed through mozilla.org (I haven't double-checked this); you can see a copy of this icon at http://www.hecker.org/mozilla/mozilla-icon.png IMO the Mozilla "about:" box should also use the red dinosaur head by itself (again, no star), in a graphic of suitable size (maybe 200x200 pixels?). > And I thougt I bring this to your attention: > http://greg.tcp.com/mozilla/ui/Outside/introduction.html This is a good discussion of the basic issues around icons in Mozilla. Frank -- Frank Hecker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
