Hello,
I have thought about this issue for a while whether it
should be raised or not, as the logo has been in use
for a long time. And I'm not sure if it's ever discussed
anywhere about the cultural issue with the GNOME's
foot logo, which may obstruct GNOME promotion in
some way.
In Thai
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
Some people simply refuse GNOME with the reason
that it's impolite.
That sometimes makes me feel uncomfortable to
promote GNOME to new users as-is, or with
distributions that try to keep upstream look-and-feels
like Debian. But with Ubuntu or Fedora, where the
On 29 Oct 2008, at 09:18, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
Hello,
I have thought about this issue for a while whether it
should be raised or not, as the logo has been in use
for a long time. And I'm not sure if it's ever discussed
anywhere about the cultural issue with the GNOME's
foot logo,
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.
Hylke
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:18 AM,
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
Hi,
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
However, how about moving away from that part of the body?
The following might be culturally offensive in some countries:
()()
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Dave.
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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
Hi,
Thilo Pfennig wrote:
Yeah, wouldnt GNOME 3.0 not a good chance to make a logo overhaul? I
would suggest to try a new thing. AFAIK similar problems can occur in
arabic and muslim countries. Maybe something like a GNOME hat
(http://www.garbtheworld.com/items/g0085.shtml).
Whenever I hear
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:33:08AM +0100, Thilo Pfennig wrote:
Its obvious. Professional translation is a very complex task. You can
not expect a high quality from volunteers who often do not have any
training and are often developers who also do translations. In relation
A lot of the GNOME
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Vincent Untz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All the places where we show a GNOME foot should be themed, so just
changing the icon theme should work. If this is not the case, then it's
a bug, I'd say.
(that's actually why you don't see the GNOME foot in Fedora, I
Dave Neary schrieb:
Whenever I hear people propose abandoning an old logo completely, this
question comes back to me:
I did not propose this just for fun. If it means that GNOME will never
be used in maybe 1/4 of the worlds countries it would be stupid not to
change. The question is if one
Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 19:03 +0100 schrieb Thilo Pfennig:
Dave Neary schrieb:
Whenever I hear people propose abandoning an old logo completely, this
question comes back to me:
I did not propose this just for fun. If it means that GNOME will never
be used in maybe 1/4 of the
Hi,
Thilo Pfennig wrote:
Dave Neary schrieb:
Whenever I hear people propose abandoning an old logo completely, this
question comes back to me:
I did not propose this just for fun.
I understand. I did not reply in jest.
When abandoning a logo, you are in essence saying that it has no
I'd like to see us put together a plan for GNOME participation in
conferences in 2009 or at least document what we are already planning.
I started a wiki page with a number of open source events here,
http://live.gnome.org/GnomeMarketing/events/2009. If everyone could document
what they know is
Thilo Pfennig [EMAIL PROTECTED], Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:33:08 +0100:
Petr Kovar schrieb:
Otherwise, it seems to be quite controversial and, may I say,
disrespectful towards translators, whose work, in my humble
translator's opinion, is as good and as bad as any other contributions.
Its
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thilo Pfennig wrote:
The question is if one wants to neglect cultural differences.
With GNOME the question is how localization and internationalization are
related to symbols that offend some people. I do not think it is
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 3:06 AM, Dave Neary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which countries?
Some of Thailand's neighbors certainly share this convention.
I've got a confirmation from my Lao friend (Anousak in Cc:), at least.
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