[haiku-bugs] Re: [Haiku] #9419: Icon of boot manager is inappropriate
- From: "mks" <trac@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 02 Feb 2013 10:09:12 -0000
#9419: Icon of boot manager is inappropriate
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Reporter: mks | Owner: nobody
Type: bug | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: R1
Component: Applications/BootManager | Version: R1/alpha4.1
Resolution: | Keywords:
Blocked By: | Blocking:
Has a Patch: 0 | Platform: All
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Comment (by mks):
Wow, I feel a little hostility in this "discussion" ...
Replying to [comment:4 kallisti5]:
> Since everyone pulls on a boot or shoe the same way... i think this is a
little silly.
Firstly, thanks for calling it silly. I will refrain from creating issues
that someone might find silly --i. e. any ticket-- from now on. Secondly,
I don't even get the analogy in the first part of your sentence,
''perhaps'' because of some kind of language barrier.
Replying to [comment:6 kallisti5]:
> I'm fine changing it for something better / more obvious
internationally, but:
>
> 1) Whats better?
> 2) Who's going to do the actual work?
> 3) Patches welcome. (It would have to be a Haiku vector icon that
matches our icon style to be considered... and make sense for the
bootmanager)
All of the above is valid for any given ticket in any given issue tracker.
Thanks for pointing it out. I am aware, that it is hard to find a better
alternative, and no, I have no idea for one.
> Bootstrapping is a common term in programming as PulkoMandy pointed out
in irc:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bootstrapping
My point was not, that it is appropriate in some languages (also comments
[comment:1], [comment:2]), but that it is based of an English idiom, that
can not be translated into many, if not most, languages of the world. For
example the icon has no obvious meaning in German, my native language, nor
does it have in French (that I know of). You can still go with "artistic
freedom", though. I didn't know if Haiku wants its icons to be meaningful,
other projects do.
Again, feel free to just close the ticket if you find it silly, although I
think this is a valid point.
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