Re: Cultural Issue with the Foot Logo

[Andreas Nilsson <nisses mail home se>]

Dave Neary wrote:
> My view is that if people all over the world are using the GNOME desktop
> moas their primary computing environment, people in Thailand won't decide
> not to use it because of the foot.
>
> My other view is that (as has been said repeatedly on this list) GNOME
> does not have a direct relationship with the consumer - the GNOME brand
> is strong among distributors, Linux application developers, and
> enthusiasts. Outside of that, the brand people see is Ubuntu, Debian,
> Red Hat, ... So I'm not convinced that changing the logo will even gain
> us any new users.
>   
I think we can look into how we can reduce the presence of the logo in 
the actual interface (like with the throbber).
I agree that it would be a costly operation to change it, and we might 
end up designing something that could offend some other cultural group.
- Andreas