Shekel sign copied from Ubuntu Gnome ;)

[Narcis Garcia]

I agree with each argument you've given.
It's not a closed question for me.


El 07/12/15 a les 10:31, Patrik Bubák ha escrit:
> It's impossible for designers to keep track of every single symbol used
> in known history. New symbols emerge daily, it's as easy as taking a
> pencil and draw on canvas to create new ones.
> 
> That being said, as the author of the logo I had no idea, that Israeli's
> currency looks similar. Why? Why should I. Short answer: not interested
> in Israel. No one's obligated to know everything, to study every single
> symbol in mankind's history (which is impossible due to the before
> mentioned).
> 
> Ask anyone you meet on the street do they know how many currencies are
> there in the world? How many will know? Much less would they know their
> symbols, names or values.
> 
> Those who will want to criticize will do so even if there is no reason,
> just because it's the only thing they know and enjoy. Ask how many of
> those who criticize have ever achieved anything/done anything meaningful
> for others?
> 
> A clear description/notes
> <https://www.behance.net/gallery/25233455/Ubuntu-GNOME> to support the
> idea can be found on my Behance. Sadly not all see the intended and will
> conjure things in their minds even after reading the manual.
> 
> It's impossible to indulge everyone and that's something every designer
> has to live with.
> 
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> 
> Nothing ruins creativity like too many voices weighing in. We call it
> the /Ice Cream Principle/. Tell 10 people to go get ice cream with one
> condition: they all have to agree on one flavour. That flavour is going
> to be chocolate or vanilla every time. Groups of people don't agree on
> what's cool or interesting, they agree on what's easy to agree on.
> 
> 
>     -------- Original Message --------
>     Subject: Shekel sign copied from Ubuntu Gnome ;)
>     Local Time: December 7 2015 9:54 am
>     UTC Time: December 7 2015 8:54 am
>     From: informatica at actiu.net
>     To: ubuntu-gnome at lists.ubuntu.com
> 
>     I perform many Ubuntu Gnome installations to individual and professional
>     end users, and I know that a part of them migrate from Windows to Ubuntu
>     Gnome for "political" or philosophical reasons.
> 
>     Some of those people (small number) can identify this u-20aa sign, and
>     this will spoil the trust to GNU/Linux. I'm thinking in removing
>     plymouth-theme-ubuntu-gnome-logo package when tuning preinstallations.
> 
> 
> 
>     El 07/12/15 a les 08:53, Julien Olivier ha escrit:
>     > Well, being cited in conspiration theories will be a great way to
>     > attract new users! :)
>     >
>     > Le lundi 07 décembre 2015 à 09:12 +0200, Usama Akkad a écrit :
>     >> I did not wanted to be the one who bring that but it seems like the
>     >> new logo has the sign of the Israeli currency ₪
>     >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekel_sign
>     >>
>     >> I think it would be better to have less controversial logo. Though
>     >> that would not drive me away from using Ubuntu gnome :-)
>     >>
>     >>
>     >>
>     >> On 07-12-2015 00:34, Leo Francisco wrote:
>     >>> New logo is looking fab (perhaps it could even do with being bigger
>     >>> on the splash screen).
>     >>>
>     >>> Another good point, there's massive speed increases with 3.16.
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> Glowing review even if there is loads of typos :)
>     >>>
>     >>> Leo
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>> On 06/12/15 09:16, Ali/amjjawad wrote:
>     >>>> Hi,
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Just saw this:
>     >>>> https://www.facebook.com/TheLinuxFoundation/posts/10153445429553547
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Glad to see our name on the media ;)
>     >>>>
>     >>>> --
>     >>>> Remember: "All of us are smarter than any one of us."
>     >>>>
>     >>>> Best Regards,
>     >>>> Ali/amjjawad <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/amjjawad>
>     >>>>
>     >>>> *<http://kibo.computer>http://kibo.computer* -
>     >>>> <http://torios.net>http://torios.net - Ubuntu GNOME
>     >>>> <http://ubuntugnome.org/>
>     >>>>
>     >>>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>>
>     >>
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