Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

[Žygimantas Beručka <uid0 akl lt>]

Tr, 2008 10 29 19:15 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan rašė:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Hylke Bons <hylkebons gmail com> 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 http://tango.freedesktop.org/favicon.ico could be an option.
>
> This should not be too offensive, compared to the foot.
> So, in 3.0, our gnome gets better dressed somehow. ;)
>
> However, how about moving away from that part of the body?

And how about making it optional at compile time or changing the foot
(e.g. by symlinking images) with something other at run-time if Thai (or
any other for that matter) locale is set? People love the GNOME foot and
I don't feel there is a real necessity to remove it completely just
because some cultures have weird associations or meanings of something,
or is it?

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Žygis