[CC'ing marketing-list on this] hi matthew, while i totally get the point from a user POV (i sometimes see the same confusion in gnome bugzilla when i have to tell people that they should complain to their distro for non-upstream issues they filed), this will probably also affect marketing issues and the strength of the GNOME brand. perhaps a general policy on this is required, like a "powered by GNOME" put at an outstanding place or whatever... andre Am Montag, den 13.08.2007, 23:44 +0100 schrieb Matthew East:
In a number of places, the user-guide speaks of "Gnome" (or "GNOME"). However, many users won't know necessarily what that is, as they will think of their desktop as "Ubuntu", "SUSE", or "hey you". Given that Gnome is always being run on top of a distribution which is likely to have a more prominently displayed name (on the CD, the boot screen, on the login screen etc), I think there is a problem caused by using the phrase "Gnome" so often in the documentation. For the Ubuntu specific documentation which we add to the desktop help system, we always describe the system as "Ubuntu", which is only natural. However it raises clashes where the upstream documentation uses the phrase "Gnome". Obviously, this raises an issue about the mark and its use in distributions and I haven't read anything about that so I would be happy to read some definitive information about Gnome's approach to such issues. Although I suppose it would be possible for us distro-types to go through all files and find/replace, I think a better solution would be to use an entity in the Gnome documentation instead of the word "Gnome", which distributions could then easily customise with a one line patch. This seems to be related to Matt Keenan's patch here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=336185 although I've never played with gnome-doc-utils (and Ubuntu doesn't use it for it's distro-specific documentation) so I have no idea how it works. Any thoughts about this? If the entity solution is feasible, I'd be prepared to work on a patch to implement it.
-- mailto:ak-47 gmx net | failed http://www.iomc.de/
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Dies ist ein digital signierter Nachrichtenteil