Re: Icon love



El vie, 18-01-2002 a las 16:39, Tuomas Kuosmanen escribió:
> 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.

Yes

> 
>     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.

If it's a easy solution, sounds much more good than use several .png
images.

> 
>     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).

As I have said in other mail. It's ok for me (of course if the usability
guys things also it's the best solution)

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

I'm talking from a translator situation and what some spanish users told
me. Of course, we should use a global solution not only for me or
Spanish team.


> 
> Tuomas
> 
> 
> 
> Tuomas Kuosmanen    Art Director   
> Ximian, Inc.
> tigert ximian com    www.ximian.com
> 
> 

Bye

-- 
Carlos Perelló Marín
mailto:carlos gnome-db org
mailto:carlos perello hispalinux es
http://www.gnome-db.org
http://www.Hispalinux.es
Valencia - Spain

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