Il 09/01/2016 14:09, Juha Manninen ha scritto:
What if come up with library that draws all important symbols?
Well, of course you're free to do with your time whatever you please or
feel right about.
But please consider the following.
The Internet is crowded with drawings of all conceivable symbols. There
are myriads of such collection:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Political_symbols_by_ideology
https://www.google.it/search?q=political+symbols&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjUxMe8m53KAhWCwBQKHVgNBXsQ_AUIBygB&biw=1440&bih=636
https://www.google.it/search?q=religious+symbols&biw=1440&bih=636&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxhJOenJ3KAhUHRhQKHcQNDL4QsAQIHg
On the other hand there's only a handful of good Lazarus programmers and
developers.
The Open Source community provides a common ground where people of
different religions, of different political opinions, coming from
different countries, sometimes at war the one against the other, work
together for a common goal, and learn to respect and appreciate each
other for what they are and what they can do, disregarding any
religious, political or ethnic label they carry.
Just take a look to the list of the Lazarus contributors and of the
Lazarus mailing list to understand what I mean. You'll spot there Arabs
and Jews, Americans, Russians and Chinese, whites, blacks and yellows,
people coming from the richest countries of the world and people coming
from the poorest, etc. etc. (I failed to locate Native Americans and
Inuit, but possibly only because of e-mail nicknames ambiguity)
You'll also notice that fpc and Lazarus (as most of the OS projects) try
to support at the same time the latest technology for the lucky ones
living in rich countries, and the older ones for those who can't afford it.
IMHO what you're currently doing, i.e. doing your best in an OS project
is a much more substantial way to contribute to the world peace, than
spending time in another symbol library which would just add to the many
existing and pass completely unnoticed.
Back to the original thread subject, IMO the best course is simply to
remove the PaintSwastika procedure, which is out of place in a small
collection of simple graphic shapes, and only risks to give a pro-Nazi
flavour to the collection, instead of losing time in populating the
collection with all the other conceivable symbols, which most likely
nobody is ever going to insert in a Lazarus program.
Just my opinion,
Giuliano
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