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Problem Description

In certain countries such as Thailand, exposing the foot toward someone or even pointing with the foot is a taboo. From Wikipedia:

Therefore, the GNOME foot logo has hindered its spread in such countries, in terms of acceptance for people who are totally new to it.

Note that an explanation to the logo as a footprint does not help much, as long as it's still related to that part of the body.

This of course does not include people who are already willing to dive into GNOME. They can bear the taboo for the software they like. This cultural issue is for marketing GNOME to new comers.

Countries Known to have such Issue

Proposed Solutions

Summarized from marketing-list and gnome-i18n threads, proposed solutions are:

Reduce the use of the foot in some apps

Rationale

Steps

Add a secondary logo for GNOME

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Steps

Rationale

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Possible Problems

Proposed Logos



2024-10-23 11:05