[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/
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