I suppose I should just learn how to make an Ubuntu package. But you can
use the (fairly complete) famfamfam flags icon set from
http://www.famfamfam.com/lab/icons/flags/, which is free for any
purpose with no requirement for attribution to get really nice looking
flag icons for the keyboard
http://community.livejournal.com/xkbconfig/982.html
Ouch. Half a day of reading ;-/ Summary:
1. Flags represent sovereignty, and their very presence is politically loaded.
Experience proved there is no way to ship flags without offending some
users.
GNOME removed all flags and their
Beni Cherniavsky : Thanks for this information!!
Obviously, if upstream decided to put a Won't fix on this, I doubt
that ubuntu will implement flags (considering all negative sides you
mentionned. Since feature requests should now go to
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/, I mark this bug as Won't fix.
It's not enough addition to have the files available - we can't expect users to
edit gconf manually.
Enabling flags by default sounds like a good idea.
But ideally there should be a easy way to toggle it from the applet.
Also, once we have icons, they could also be used in the Keyboard
Note about enabling showFlag by default:
Flags only show the language and don't distinguish between variant layouts
(e.g. US vs. US Dvorak).
So users with more than one layout for same language will experience a
usability regression if we just enable showFlags!
I see 3 ways to fix it:
- Add a
The flags are not displayed for political reasons. (just search the
gnome/debian archives for the long debate)
As far as I know, languages have no flags. At least I am not aware how
the Romanian language flag looks like.
Beside alternate keyboard layouts (qwerty/qwetz/dworak), we can also
have
I am marking this bug confirmed as it still displays text with no easy
way to display an icon on Ubuntu 8.10.
** Changed in: gnome-applets (Ubuntu)
Sourcepackagename: None = gnome-applets
Status: New = Confirmed
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Keyboard indicator flags are missing
** Changed in: human-icon-theme (Ubuntu)
Status: Unconfirmed = Confirmed
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Keyboard indicator flags are missing
https://launchpad.net/bugs/80702
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