]] Magnus Holmgren
| On onsdagen den 17 februari 2010, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
| > May be the size must be included into path?
| >
| > like
| > flags/countires//16x10/
| > flags/countires//24x15/
|
| Not all flags have the same aspect ratio.
Pad them with transparent pixels, then?
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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?
>
> l
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
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
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
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
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? Lo
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 a
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 spok
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 usin
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
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//16x10/
flags/countires//24x15/
etc?
Is pack
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
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) dis
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 i
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
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 multip
>> 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
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Steve M. Robbins 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.
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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 co
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
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 w
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 exactl
On 03:37 Tue 16 Feb , Paul Wise wrote:
PW> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov
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 that seems
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Dmitry E. Oboukhov 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 days. The langua
> 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 (
>> 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 av
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:18 PM, 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.
Are you sure they need flags? Which package and what exactly will the
flags represen
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
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