On Friday 15 July 2005 13:13, Maciej Hanski wrote: > Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > >> The Scribus Team is pleased to announce a technology preview of > >> the next generation of Scribus - Open Source Desktop Publishing. > > Congratulations, Scribus Team! > > > One thing I'd like to suggest: It would be wonderful to have a > > French name for *every* scribus release. Since French is probably > > the most elegant language in the world, and elegance is more than > > often a requirement in DTP, it seems not only logical to me, but > > it would also make a difference compared to the common practice > > of commercial companies. > > Maybe we could agree on considering the French release name a > tribute to those many frankophone contributors (Martin, Louis, > Jean, etc,) who've supported Scribus in every imaginable way over > the last years? The elegance of French (although it sounds very > stimulating to me too :) is such a subjective thing, it might not > be that obvious somewhere outside of Europe... > > I would vote for using different languages for each Scribus > release name to come, to stress the international approach of this > project and sort of say thank you to developers and contributors in > their language > > :) Something like "Die Freiheit" for 1.3.1, "Svoboda" for 1.3.2, > : and so > > on in other languages would be really nice, don't you think? > > Just an idea > Maciej > >
A good idea... Something we can be creative with the next release :) The original idea came from Franz, who was thinking of Bastille Day in France. Cheers, Peter
