Re: Flag images - technical solution

2010-02-22 Thread Osamu Aoki
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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-20 Thread Steve Langasek
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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-17 Thread Jérémy Lal
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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-17 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-17 Thread Mike Hommey
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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-17 Thread Christian PERRIER
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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
> 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 (

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
>> 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

Re: Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Paul Wise
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

Flag images

2010-02-15 Thread Dmitry E. Oboukhov
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