Re: the header of the site

[Elad Alfassa]

On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 10:09 AM, Kévin Raymond
<shaiton(a)fedoraproject.org&gt;wrote:

>  Le vendredi 14 juin 2013 à 18:48:48 (+0300), moshe nahmias a écrit :
>  > Hi,
>  > I am from Israel and use fedora in English for some time now, just found
>  out
>  > the fedora site in Hebrew and wanted to say it looks good.
>  >
>  > A few things I want to comment on...
>  > It seem a bit strange for me that the header is positioned from left to
>  right,
>  > meaning that the fedora logo is on the left side and the choosing of the
>  site
>  > language is on the right side just like the English version.
>  > Since Hebrew is written right to left it seems a bit strange to have it
>  that
>  > way.
>
>  Hi Moshe,
>
>  Thanks for your feedback.
>  I agree, we could update that, but this concern legal and logo usage
>  guidelines.
>  I am not sure we want the 4 F's to be at the left side of the Fedora logo.
>  And keeping the logo that way, if we just switch the side without
>  revert, it would look wierd IMHO.
>  I'll see what we can do for that.
>  Elad did most part of the RTL CSS. Elad, any opinion?
>  
I think that the logo needs to be on the left because Fedora is an English
word, and it will look weird on the right side of the screen.


>  >
>  > I mean that the fedora logo and the "4 F's" are supposed to be on the
>  right
>  > side and the language selection and the contribute reference to redhat
>  on the
>  > left side.
>  >
>  > BTW, why the 4 F's are not translated? As long as the first letter
>  doesn't have
>  > to be the same as the first letter in fedora or between the words
>  themselves
>  > it's easy to translate in the spirit of fedora and linux
>
>  They were. And we reverted.
>  We decided to not translate the 4 F's when they are printed with the
>  Fedora logo. Because it could lead to legal issues. Because we don't have
>  official translations in every languages. Because translations don't
>  always use words begining with an F. And because sometimes the wording
>  change during translations leading to misinterpretation. We wanted to
>  avoid that.
>
>  On an other side, the 4 F's are translated down on this page, when they
>  are not part of the Fedora logo.
>
>  Where? the 4Fs on the middle of the frontpage are non-translatable images, 
and I
don't see the 4Fs anywhere else



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>
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>  Kévin Raymond
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