Talk:Sugar design review 2
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The graphics are very stylish and have an appealing colour scheme,
In the picture Sugar-private-chat-mockup.png it says the following.
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Oh, I forgot to mention that we need names for those characters, if you can think of anything.
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Could you please say for which characters you need names please?
- A link from the news of 2006-06-11 may provide the answer!
Suggestions for names for the characters
Boy
Crane (named after the bird, so localizable everywhere)
Girl
Swan (named after the bird, so localizable everywhere)
- These names are not localizable everywhere for 3 reasons:
- Gender
- In many languages, these names will be either feminine or masculine which conflicts with the gender of the Child. For instance the Russian word for Swan is masculine gender.
- Culture
- In many cultures, specific characteristics are associated with specific animals. The animal names that you suggest, or other animal names, may have negative characteristics in some cultures.
- Ecology
- Cranes and Swans are not necessarily found in every ecological niche on the planet. They may be totally unknown to some kids. For that matter, the names might both translate to the same word meaning big-foreign-bird
- May I suggest Japanese names since the OLPC will likely never be deployed in Japan. Therefore these will appear to be foreign-sounding or Japanese-sounding names. Japanese girls names usually end in -ko so something like Miko and Yoshi would work. Or Gecko and Sushi...
In Presence.png, the Mockup of what the presence pane might look like, what are the two graphics with the arrows in the Everyone section intended to symbolize please?
I thought the laptop will be used primarily in black