Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

["Theppitak Karoonboonyanan" <thep linux thai net>]

On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:38 PM, Žygimantas Beručka <uid0 akl lt> wrote:
> Tr, 2008 10 29 19:15 +0700, Theppitak Karoonboonyanan rašė:
>> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 6:29 PM, Hylke Bons <hylkebons gmail com> wrote:
>> > It's quite funny to see how GNOME HIG advises to avoid body parts, but
>> > the actual GNOME logo is a foot(print).
>> > Do people in Thailand give the same reaction if the logo was a shoe? :)
>> > If not http://tango.freedesktop.org/favicon.ico could be an option.
>>
>> This should not be too offensive, compared to the foot.
>> So, in 3.0, our gnome gets better dressed somehow. ;)
>>
>> However, how about moving away from that part of the body?
>
> And how about making it optional at compile time or changing the foot
> (e.g. by symlinking images) with something other at run-time if Thai (or
> any other for that matter) locale is set? People love the GNOME foot and
> I don't feel there is a real necessity to remove it completely just
> because some cultures have weird associations or meanings of something,
> or is it?

Personally, I love the foot, too. But general Thai people who are
not familiar with GNOME don't. So, we have the difficulty in promotion.

And actually, what I proposed was an 'alternative' logo.

Regards,
-- 
Theppitak Karoonboonyanan
http://linux.thai.net/~thep/