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About the R/S Phrases Icon
by "from Brazil with love" on Wednesday 31/Jan/2007, @07:55

At the Tools menu there is a R/S Phrases with an important simbol as the icon.

The icon used at R/S Phrases means Biohazard, it must be used only with biological threats like pathogenic baterias, virus, genetic modified foods, pieces of tissues from a sick guy and so on.

When you use a simbol for a diferent meaning, like the heavy rock band Biohazard, this simbol become weak. I think this simbol for R/S Phrases must be changed.

If you link this simbol with a rock band or a R/S Phrases you get a wrong meaning at your mind. If you see a package with this simbol at the streets you think: "Cool man, let me see what I got today.!" and hoooo hoooo you are infected.

This can sound geek, but this simbol is an international standard.

Thanks for the amazing work folks.
KDE must go on.!!
:-)

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Re: About the R/S Phrases Icon
by Benoit Jacob on Thursday 01/Feb/2007, @01:18

R/S means "risk and safety".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Risk_and_Safety_Statements

So I think the icon is appropriate.

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Re: About the R/S Phrases Icon
by "from Brazil with love" on Thursday 01/Feb/2007, @12:13

That simbol means "Biological Hazard".

This is compliant whith the ISO 3864, wich specifies international standards for safety symbols.

-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biohazard

""A biological hazard or biohazard is an organism, or substance derived from an organism, that poses a threat to (primarily) human health. This can include medical waste, samples of a microorganism, virus or toxin (from a biological source) that can impact human health.""

It's not relatad to other kind of threaths or hazards, like chemical products or radioative metals.

We have the radioactive simbol, the toxic simbol, the chemical hazard simbol.

Please, check this page:

-> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazard_symbol

:-)

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Re: About the R/S Phrases Icon
by Benoit Jacob on Thursday 01/Feb/2007, @13:38

thanks for explaining; i'll report to Carsten if he doesn't already know.

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