Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

["Gudmund Areskoug" <gudmundpublic gmail com>]

Hello,

2008/10/30 F Wolff <friedel translate org za>:
> On Do, 2008-10-30 at 13:27 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan wrote:
>> Dear gnome-i18n,
>>
>> I believe this is an appropriate place to discuss about cultural
>> conventions.
>>
>> How is a foot interpreted in your culture? Do you have the same
>> issue I have met? In my culture, showing foot is considered rude.
>> And the foot is not something to impress people who are totally new
>> to GNOME.

just FWIW, the foot is or has been considered rude or even a heavy
insult (duel fodder) in a number of cultures.

> I assume that culturally sensitive graphical design is hard, and I guess
> you are used to simply taking what you get as a Thai translator. If we
> say we are an international group, we should try to accommodate this
> difference as much as we work on text layout, GUI translation, date
> formats, etc.

Agree, but partly, like Matej says, it's in the eye of the beholder,
and partly it's a matter of resources.

I think no alternative logos will appear until people start submitting them.

> I think I know of at least one team that doesn't translate and promote
> Firefox under that brand, since the fox is considered negative in their
> culture - I guess for Mozilla there is too much in that brand to dilute
> it, but they lost that team (in as far as I know).

This is a pity and if true even a bit silly. The firefox isn't a fox,
it's a panda:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Panda>

This is the animal that would turn up all across the field, before
Mozilla Firefox popularity overwhelmed all the search engines.

BR,
Gudmund