[ubuntu-art] Apport icons -- merely some ideas

[Troy James Sobotka]

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Jean Pierre Rupp wrote:
> In short, we should make the artwork based on the concepts, and not the
> words.
> 

In short, concepts are culturally based.

> The idea of locale-based icons is great, but of course it would be a
> huge task to undertake for only a few icons that can be easily with
> universally understandable conceptual ones.
>

It would be no different than having 'fallbacks' to the other icon
collections -- as it currently exists in the index.theme for icons.  For
the large part, one could expect that the bulk of the icons might work,
but where a more appropriate cultural trigger is seen, use it.

The problem with targetting the 'general' is that you fail to embrace
metaphors and memes that work in a far more 'culture centric' fashion.

As an example, compare the white walking crosswalk symbol in North
America to the other options in the Middle East etc.

Stop signs, traffic signals, etc.  All are culture specific.


All of this is obviously 'available' to anyone who chooses to run a Free
Desktop, but perhaps a distribution that states "that software tools
should be usable by people in their local language" might want to
consider extending this 'language' to embody visual language as well.


Sincerely,
TJS
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