Sorry, I should have made clear that my only concern was about using flags in connection of locale languages, not aboutn the logo derivations in general. I also think people should be encouraged to own the brand and I like the collection of derivatives proposed by Máirín in the brandbook. I fully understand that i.e. GNOME applications make derivations i.e. adding a pawn or a horse for a GNOME chess program. My only concern is about using flags in combination of the logo to identify localized GNOME subsites. Thilo said that there was a problem with German because there is Germany, Switzerland and Austria. Well, linking languages with flags is problematic in enough cases for (IMO) being avoided at all. For example English language, sometimes represented with a combination of British Union Jack and American Bars and Stripes, as if this would be more respectful... towards the myriad of countries having English as official language as well. Don't know, maybe it's me that I come from a place where so much energy is uselessly spent linking languages with flags and arguing about it. PS: reading twice Thilo's email I see he also agrees that "using flags for languages is a bad idea" On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 08:56 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
as long as it is identifiably GNOME, people should be encouraged to 'own' the brand and make it their own. If that means customizing it for their country/team/whatever, great. The universal, tightly controlled brand is a model that I don't think will work well for us- it is too centralized and doesn't reflect who we really are.
-- Quim Gil /// http://desdeamericaconamor.org
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