Re: Revamped Gnome.org

2005-09-18 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Andreas Nilsson wrote: "GNOME is an Open-Source Operating System built to be stable..." I think some people would not agree that GNOME is an Operating System. GNU/Linux, FreeBSD and Solaris are operating

Don't use text in graphics. Use real text instead.

2005-09-13 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Hugh Buzacott wrote: It is just a suggestion so if you have any ideas and so forth just send them. The "About Download Support" links are a graphic. I don't recommend using text in graphics because text in graphics disallow the reader control over rendering, such as using fonts and sizes the

Re: GNOME Logo Font

2005-08-13 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
[My apology for sending this only to Luis Villa. I had intended to respond to the entire mailing list.] Luis Villa wrote: > None of those seem quite as aesthetically pleasing as the current > pairing [...] I disagree, I think Bitstream Vera Sans Bold (the alternative in the upper left of the

Re: GNOME Logo & Typeface

2005-04-21 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
[I meant to send this to the mailing list, but instead it just went to David Neary.] David Neary wrote: > The font is Trebuchet MS, ironically enough. It's been almost two years exactly since the negotiations to get a font that everyone can share and build on -- the Bitstream Vera fonts. http:/

Re: crap--> Desktop Summit

2005-02-10 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Jeff Waugh wrote: Not quite an organisation or event that we'd want to get involved in, really... Why? -- marketing-list mailing list marketing-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/marketing-list

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [David Neary]RE: MP3 licensing]

2005-02-02 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Luis Villa wrote: But this discussion is not productive- [...] I disagree -- reading the thread (and another related thread about the media CD), it's obvious that some posters are quite unclear about the intersection of patent law and free software for people living in software patent observing cou

Re: [Rocky.Caldwell@thomson.net: [David Neary]RE: MP3 licensing]

2005-02-02 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
David Neary wrote: So, officially, although this is not stated anywhere on their site, they allow non-commercial use. It is stated on their website. Read http://mp3licensing.com/help/enduser.html for the following information: Do you license mp3/mp3PRO software to end users? No. We license mp3/mp3

Re: media files

2005-02-02 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
You need to slow down and read the post differently. You have substantially misinterpreted what I wrote and apparently provoked yourself into being offended when I said nothing offensive. I asked questions that would help me understand what the project was about. As I said before, none of th

Re: media files

2005-02-01 Thread J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Luis Villa wrote: I'm hoping to get these onto a test liveCD shortly, we'll see about that :) Anyway, this means I'm going for 'good' and not 'perfect'. I'd love, of course, for others to come and help out and get it closer to perfect. On this wiki, you'll find DaveNeary saying: Perhaps I don't un