Data retention reminder on live CD

Ted Gould ted at ubuntu.com
Wed Mar 5 16:37:53 GMT 2008


On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 10:51 -0600, Joseph Piché wrote:
> I think a watermark is really bad idea unless it is done properly.
> Just setting a SVG (or something) with text on the background does not
> allow from proper internationalization. One "correct" way to do it
> would be allowing in nautilus a second layer of background to be set.
> This would a bonus to users and developers overall. It is in the
> "second" or "top" layer of background that you place the watermark
> text which is automatically chosen per language.

Andy Fitzsimon has a good intro to internationalizing SVG graphics:

  http://andy.brisgeek.com/archives/45

He also gave a presentation on it at the last LGM:


http://people.xiph.org/~giles/2007/lgm/LGM_20070506-4-Andy_Fitzsimon.ogg

It's actually a pretty amazing process they've got going over at Redhat
to get all their documentation (including graphics) internationalized
and out the door.

		--Ted





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