Re: Icon love

[Tuomas Kuosmanen <tigert ximian com>]

On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 16:56, Carlos Perelló Marín wrote:
> Yes, the ide is "to have easy to use applications", but all people that
> use Microsoft applications, or Staroffice or Corel applications and many
> other ones use an application with all strings translated (also the
> images) and they will see the B I U icons (sorry, I only send plain
> mails) as a bug (I see it as a bug and I'm using GNU/Linux with GNOME
> since several years, so a new user...).
>     
So those apps have localized icons? Hmm.
> I also think that (for example) the startup screen for gnome should also
> be using i18n. Some people does not understand why there is a "Welcome
> to your GNOME workstation" instead of a "Bienvenido a su estación de
> trabajo GNOME". I could understand all images without problems, but I'm
>     
This should be done by rendering the freetype text over the splash screen based on a config file.
> using the locale "es_ES" and I expect to get all symbols/icons for my
> locale, here, at Spain (and I suppose, in other countries), some people
> does not know any english word and other ones hate a mix between english
> and spanish so It should be possible for us translate those things.
>
> The code "hack" is as easy as a do: _("bold.png")
>     
Yeah. It is not hard to do. But I think this needs some user testing / usability insight to tell whether it is a good idea. I would much rather do A - A - A then. (Same letter with in bold, italic and underlined).

It is hard to tell what should be done without doing some research/testing on it.

Tuomas

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