]] 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?
-
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 (is is good or bad to use flags
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 is a good idea
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 exactly will the
> PW> flags represent?
>
> PW
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 avoid adding flags to Debian w
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 represent?
I would pers
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