Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

["Simos Xenitellis" <simos lists googlemail com>]

Hi Theppitak,

As already suggested, delegating the choice of the new logo to the Art
Team is the typical thing to do.

My concern is in the practicalities when trying to apply the new logo
in a distribution.
If you have your own distribution, you can make all sort of changes,
so it it OK.

What you might want to explore is how to make the logo theme-able.
That is, you can select a theme that would alter the logo in all
places in GNOME.
You can then create a package with this cut-down logo-changing theme
that a user can either install on demand, or it is installed
automatically when the user selects, for example, Thai support.

Assuming that it is possible to change the logo through theming, you
may then choose a logo that has a special meaning to SE Asia.

Simos

On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
<thep linux thai net> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 6, 2008 at 6:51 PM, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
>>
>> On 6 Nov 2008, at 10:37, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
>>
>>> In my vague memory, some GNOME 1.x versions used to use a flower
>>> logo at the main menu. And after some search, I've found some
>>> evidences:
>>
>> Ah yes.  During our GNOME 1.2 usability study, some of our participants
>> memorably asked "what's the fried egg for?" :)
>
> I see. It looks pretty much like a fried egg, too. :-)
>
>> Other than that, a (well-designed) flower might be a pretty good call-- it
>> has some history in GNOME, and it symbolises all those hippie values that
>> are shared by the open source community :)
>
> Probably, elongating the petals helps?
>
> Before:
>  http://linux.thai.net/~thep/shots/gnome-logo/flower-1.4.svg
>
> After:
>  http://linux.thai.net/~thep/shots/gnome-logo/flower-long.svg
>
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