]] Magnus Holmgren
| On onsdagen den 17 februari 2010, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
| May be the size must be included into path?
|
| like
| flags/countires/package/16x10/
| flags/countires/package/24x15/
|
| Not all flags have the same aspect ratio.
Pad them with transparent
On onsdagen den 17 februari 2010, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
MH On the other hand, one application will want 16x10 icons, another one
MH 24x15, another one may have some effects applied on the flags to better
MH fit the UI design, etc.
May be the size must be included into path?
like
Hi,
On 17/02/2010 19:15, Mike Hommey wrote:
On the other hand, one application will want 16x10 icons, another one
24x15, another one may have some effects applied on the flags to better
fit the UI design, etc.
So while applications amy be using flags already, are they really using
Steve Langasek schrieb:
Herbert's resignation mail is here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg00276.html
I've always found it ambiguous what Herbert was referring to when he said
this is too much - the use of the Taiwanese flag? The original listing of
Taiwan as a country
On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 11:41:17AM +0100, Thomas Hochstein wrote:
Steve Langasek schrieb:
Herbert's resignation mail is here:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/05/msg00276.html
I've always found it ambiguous what Herbert was referring to when he said
this is too much - the
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:05:41PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Dmitry E. Oboukhov (un...@debian.org):
PW As an example of the practical effects of flags in the context of
PW Debian; a number of years ago we lost our kernel maintainer, partially
PW because KDE in Debian included
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:11:15 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language
selection is better handled using locales and content-negotiation
anyway. [There are many
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Alexander Reichle-Schmehl wrote:
Dmitry E. Oboukhov schrieb:
I wish to use my country's flag to refer to my language...
Don't. There are many languages not associated with countries or in
use in many different countries. [..]
Is it really so big problem? Looks like as
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:53:56AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language
selection is better handled using locales and content-negotiation
anyway. [There are many
Quoting Dmitry E. Oboukhov (un...@debian.org):
There are many packages in debian contain flag images.
I think this whole thread answeredsomething that wasn't asked in
your question (is is good or bad to use flags). Flags *are* used,
whether we like it or not...or whether this is a good idea
Quoting Dmitry E. Oboukhov (un...@debian.org):
PW As an example of the practical effects of flags in the context of
PW Debian; a number of years ago we lost our kernel maintainer, partially
PW because KDE in Debian included a flag of a country the maintainer (and
PW his government)
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 06:38:00PM +0100, Christian PERRIER wrote:
Quoting Dmitry E. Oboukhov (un...@debian.org):
There are many packages in debian contain flag images.
I think this whole thread answeredsomething that wasn't asked in
your question (is is good or bad to use flags
MH On the other hand, one application will want 16x10 icons, another one
MH 24x15, another one may have some effects applied on the flags to better
MH fit the UI design, etc.
May be the size must be included into path?
like
flags/countires/package/16x10/
flags/countires/package/24x15/
On 17/02/2010 19:15, Mike Hommey wrote:
On the other hand, one application will want 16x10 icons, another one
24x15, another one may have some effects applied on the flags to better
fit the UI design, etc.
So while applications amy be using flags already, are they really using
the same
On Wed, 2010-02-17 at 17:28 +0100, sean finney wrote:
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 08:53:56AM +0100, Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language
selection is better handled using
Thanks to Kibi for notifying some mistakes...
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 00:11 +0100, Frank Lin PIAT wrote:
I would love to get some comments from:
- people leaving in a country with many official languages.
- people leaving in a country which official language is the same
to the one spoken
On lun., 2010-02-15 at 12:03 -0800, Don Armstrong wrote:
Flags are a poor representation of a particular language, and language
selection is better handled using locales and content-negotiation
anyway. [There are many examples where a country speaks many
languages, and examples where multiple
There are many packages in debian contain flag images.
For example:
awstats - /usr/share/awstats/icon/flags/
b2evolution - /usr/share/b2evolution/rsc/flags/h10px
bygfoot - /usr/share/games/bygfoot/support_files/pixmaps/symbols
deluge-common - /usr/share
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18 PM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov un...@debian.org wrote:
I'm going to add into debian a few new (my) projects which need flag
images and so I want to add a package which contains flag set.
Are you sure they need flags? Which package and what exactly will the
flags represent
I'm going to add into debian a few new (my) projects which need flag
images and so I want to add a package which contains flag set.
PW Are you sure they need flags? Which package and what exactly will the
PW flags represent?
PW I would personally suggest to avoid adding flags to Debian where
I wish to use my country's flag to refer to my language...
Don't. There are many languages not associated with countries or in
use in many different countries. Also, some flags are considered
very political, and are thus very controversial. For example, the
government of mainland China
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov un...@debian.org wrote:
new version of rtpg (rtpg2) will have language button and geoIP peer's
information with country's flag etc.
Sounds like a fairly pointless feature to me. Unfortunately that seems
to be common in torrent clients these
On 03:37 Tue 16 Feb , Paul Wise wrote:
PW On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov un...@debian.org
wrote:
new version of rtpg (rtpg2) will have language button and geoIP peer's
information with country's flag etc.
PW Sounds like a fairly pointless feature to me. Unfortunately
On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
I'm going to add into debian a few new (my) projects which need flag
images and so I want to add a package which contains flag set.
PW Are you sure they need flags? Which package and what exactly will the
PW flags represent?
PW I would
Hi!
Dmitry E. Oboukhov schrieb:
I wish to use my country's flag to refer to my language...
Don't. There are many languages not associated with countries or in
use in many different countries. [..]
Is it really so big problem? Looks like as non-issue, farfetched.
Believe me as someone who
Paul,
I read through the links you provided. There was a cogent argument
against using flags to symbolize a language. I would accept that.
However, while I understand your argument about losing contributors,
I'm not completely convinced that using a flag chosen by country X to
represent country
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 03:21:23PM -0600, Steve M. Robbins wrote:
I read through the links you provided. There was a cogent argument
against using flags to symbolize a language. I would accept that.
However, while I understand your argument about losing contributors,
I'm not completely
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Steve M. Robbins st...@sumost.ca wrote:
This vote dates from May 2009. Do you know what was ultimately
decided?
I haven't heard anything more recently, I'd suggest contacting Fedora
if you want to find out.
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
--
I read through the links you provided. There was a cogent argument
against using flags to symbolize a language. I would accept that.
However, while I understand your argument about losing contributors,
I'm not completely convinced that using a flag chosen by country X to
represent country X
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