Re: stock icons to add
- From: Bill Haneman <Bill Haneman Sun COM>
- To: jgoldberg home com, hp redhat com
- Cc: gtk-devel-list gnome org, gnome-libs-devel gnome org,	tigert gimp org
- Subject: Re: stock icons to add
- Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 11:30:01 +0100 (BST)
>>     'B' for bold does not make much sense in several languages.
>
>s/several/most/
>
>Good point. We need to think this through.
>
>Possibly the simplest solution is to go back to gtk 1.2's
>locale-specific rc files.
Icon localization is really important for a number of reasons.  There 
are not just language-specific icon issues (like the one raised above) 
but significant culture-specific ones.  You probably don't want your 
"pause" or "point" icons to mean "rude gesture" in one of your target 
locales ;-)
-Bill
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Bill Haneman x19279
Gnome Accessibility / Batik SVG Toolkit
Sun Microsystems Ireland 
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