265249 - Firefox branding: changing search plugins in the Slovene (sl-SI) localisation (request for approval)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Marketing :: Trademark Permissions, task)

Description

[aleksr_si]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sl-SI; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618 Firefox/0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; sl-SI; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040618 Firefox/0.9

(I'm bound to have placed this bug in the wrong component; please do
recategorise it if this is so)

I should like to ask for approval of the set of search plugins to be shipped by
Firefox in Slovene (sl-SI) by the branding team in regard to the localisation
trade mark policy.

According to the policy, plugins may only be localised and not changed. However,
this makes little sense in Slovene for several of the plugins.
Included in en-US are:
Amazon.com
Dictionary.com
eBay
Google
Yahoo

Allow me to explain why these may not be the best choices:
Amazon.com: it is, first of all, not available in Slovene; further, many
products can only be shipped within the USA, and for the rest, the postage fee
is outrageous. If there is a NEED for Amazon to be included in the default
search plugins, I would like to change this to Amazon.de, which is nearest to
where most potential users would be. (Alternatively, Amazon.co.uk is also
suitable.) However, I don't really think anyone would really use it, not least
because there are local internet shops. Alas, there is none with such a broad
scope of products, so it makes no sense to include a large set instead.

Dictionary.com: This is an English-English dictionary. It makes no sense to
include it in a localised build. I suppose one could make a search plugin for
SSKJ, which is *the* authoritative dictionary of Slovene and is available on the
web: http://bos.zrc-sazu.si/sskj.html

eBay: similarly, it is not available in Slovene, and nothing similar is
available in Slovene. I don't think very many people would use it, but then, I
could be wrong.

Yahoo: it is not available in Slovene, and there are other search engines one
can utilise instead

Google: it has been localised and should be included with the default sl-SI set


Furthermore, the Slovene packages have always contained additional search
engines which some have come to expect. These are:

Matkurja (matkurja.com): it is one of the oldest search engines in Slovenia; it
has a big database and should probably be included for its 'events' search if
nothing else

Najdi.si (najdi.si): this is probably the most popular, the most used and the
most accurate search engine in Slovenia; it is in a way quite similar to Google
in Slovene, and has the added advantage that it can search for inflected word
forms that Google cannot; in addition, because we have included their search
engine in the Slovene Mozilla builds, they have been advertising Mozilla in
Slovene (and have, in fact, generated a LOT of downloads based on the referrer
HTTP string on our website)

Sigov (iskalnik1.gov.si/compass): this is the Government's search engine and can
search through all documents published by the Government on the internet

Slowwwenia (slowwwenia.com): this is another popular search engine, and it is
moreover a web directory


The search plugins mentioned are all in the Slovene CVS repository. I should
much appreciate it if you could look at them and see if they are appropriate for
inclusion in the Slovene localisation.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Rafael Ebron (:rebron)]

a=rebron

This is fine.  No l10n version for Yahoo.

Can you take a look at decreasing the number of bookmarks in the bookmarks.html
file to 12-15 links total (doesn't include links to Mozilla.org or Mozilla
affiliate sites.)