Re: About Panels - aka lynching time

[Matthew Berg <galt gothpoodle com>]

On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 18:23, Curtis C. Hovey wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:59, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 11:38, Rob Adams wrote:
> > > Basically I think that the one thing that should definitely, 100%
> > > positively always remain consistent among GNOME distributions is the
> > > "foot" icon in the gnome menu.  I realize that this is usually the first
> > > thing that people change when they go about branding their gnome
> > > distribution, but I think that having this icon changing from desktop to
> > > desktop really hurts user consistency.
> > > 
> > 
> > I'd take a lot of convincing on that. It's a _foot_, for starters. ;-)
> 
> The foot can be perceived as an offensive symbol in many middle-eastern
> and Muslim countries.  Four toed and stylized, it still a foot, and it
> may not be in all distributions.  I'm not arguing for a politically
> correct symbol. I'm merely pointing out that we should not take it for
> granted.
> 
> On a similar note on branding sensativity, GM didn't learn a lesson from
> marketing the Nova in Mexico.  They tried to market the laCrosse in
> Quebec:
> http://www.auto123.com/en/info/news/news,view.spy?artid=18027

The "Nova = no va = no go" thing is an urban legend:

  http://www.snopes.com/business/misxlate/nova.asp

-- 
Matthew Berg <galt gothpoodle com>