Bug#529709: [openoffice.org] Sun asked to not rebrand forks

[Filipus Klutiero <chealer@gmail.com>]

Le September 15, 2009 11:59:14 am Rene Engelhard, vous avez écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 05:37:01PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 04:40:41PM +0200, Valerio Passini wrote:
> > > "[..]the splash screen and "About" dialogs usually remain the standard Open 
> > > Office versions. This is at Sun's request, to enhance brand recognition [...]" 
> > > The original source for this statement is:
> > > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/go-oo.html
> > > Indeed, almost all the major distributions are providing go-oo instead of OO and 
> > > they are behaving in this way. Given that it's unnecessary having more 
> > > references to go-oo.
> > 
> > And where you do please see a rebranding of our splash screen, please?
> 
> Oops, sorry. This looked like a new bug report (I often get
> confused on replies made to bugs via reportbug(-ng), sorry)
> instead of a reply....
> 
> Yes, Valerio is right. That's the reason we do not change the splash.
> 
> Grüße/Regards,
> 
> Rene

Thanks Valerio. Note that I didn't suggest to change the splash screen, the About dialog or the application itself. My suggestion was to explain in the package descriptions. Putting both brandings in the application would not be great. However, there is not much disadvantage in having the package description label the package as OOo, but with a note that it is actually Go-oo. It is not necessary to add more references to Go-oo, but the current package is quite discreet about it. Having one more note, in the description, would not hurt much.