Bug 12293

Summary:	Some remarks on language use in advertisements
Product:	Mageia	Reporter:	Dick Gevers <dvgevers>
Component:	Installer	Assignee:	Anne Nicolas <ennael1>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Atelier Team <atelier-bugs>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal	CC:	rverschelde, thierry.vignaud
Version:	Cauldron
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	4RC
Source RPM:		CVE:
Status comment:

Description Dick Gevers 2014-01-13 19:13:58 CET

Description of problem:


During package install from classical isos, so called 'advertisements' are displayed when not looking at package details.

I want to make some remarks on the language used herein:

* When is shown at the bottom: mageia.org/contribute, the "org/contribute" letters are smaller sized than "mageia", this is  awkward IMHO

* "Mageia is ... a Community..." should not be written with a capital "C", other nouns are not either.

*  "Mageia is for Developers": no reason to start the last word with a capital "D", because other nouns are not either.

* "Choose from major Office suites": the word "Office" should not start with a capital O, other nouns (incl. "office" higher up) are not either.

* When writing "Mageia is for People": no reason to write "People" with a capital P, other nouns are not either.

* (Yes nouns always start with capital letters in the German language, but not for ordinary words in the English language).

Perhaps the authors want to stress certain words by making them stand out using an initial capital letter. But if that were the case, this has not been done consistently throughout the advertisements, so it is beyond me why it should be like this :))





Reproducible: 

Steps to Reproduce:

Dick Gevers 2014-01-13 19:17:13 CET

Whiteboard: (none) => 4RC

Thierry Vignaud 2014-01-13 19:27:59 CET

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Assignee: bugsquad => ennael1

Comment 1 Rémi Verschelde 2014-01-13 22:02:30 CET

For the reference: http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/advertising?id=929e4d8d7a946625e46220dfd89d07e0196d3aea (click on "plain" to see the pictures)(In reply to Dick Gevers from comment #0)

> * When is shown at the bottom: mageia.org/contribute, the "org/contribute"
> letters are smaller sized than "mageia", this is  awkward IMHO
(see http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/plain/advertising/01_IM_mageia.png?id=929e4d8d7a946625e46220dfd89d07e0196d3aea )
This was a design choice, but I can't say there's a well-thought reason for it. I guess I wanted to make the distinction between the logo-part "Mageia" and the rest of the URL; I can try to reduce the size of "Mageia" and slightly increase that of the URL to see what it looks like.

> * "Mageia is ... a Community..." should not be written with a capital "C",
> other nouns are not either.
> 
> *  "Mageia is for Developers": no reason to start the last word with a
> capital "D", because other nouns are not either.
> 
> * "Choose from major Office suites": the word "Office" should not start with
> a capital O, other nouns (incl. "office" higher up) are not either.
> 
> * When writing "Mageia is for People": no reason to write "People" with a
> capital P, other nouns are not either.

This was mostly written by Trish I think, but it's right that it's not particularly necessary to emphasize using capital letters. I already put those words in blue, so the capital letter is redundant (and not used in a consistent manner over all slides).

Fixing those. Thanks :)

Status: NEW => ASSIGNED
CC: (none) => remi
Assignee: ennael1 => atelier-bugs
QA Contact: (none) => ennael1

Comment 2 Rémi Verschelde 2014-01-13 22:44:55 CET

Fixed in http://gitweb.mageia.org/software/drakx/tree/advertising?id=2fcb32d7734ceb9e1aec503dbb3fe79a5f656375

Anne, can you rebuild the package with the new pictures?

Assignee: atelier-bugs => ennael1
QA Contact: ennael1 => atelier-bugs

Comment 3 Anne Nicolas 2014-01-13 22:51:45 CET

submitted

Comment 4 Dick Gevers 2014-01-15 03:34:34 CET

Thanks !

Status: ASSIGNED => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED