[Usability] country flag icons in the UI

2010-11-30 Thread Stefan Kost
hi, I have seen that some applications use icons of flags to indicate countries (e.g. the deluge torrent client uses that to indicate the origin or a peer). I was wondering if that is something that would be encouraged or discencougaraged. If encouraged those flags could become part of the icon th

Re: [Usability] country flag icons in the UI

2010-11-30 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 11/30/2010 01:27 PM, Stefan Kost wrote: hi, I have seen that some applications use icons of flags to indicate countries (e.g. the deluge torrent client uses that to indicate the origin or a peer). I was wondering if that is something that would be encouraged or discencougaraged. If encouraged

Re: [Usability] country flag icons in the UI

2010-11-30 Thread Stefan Kost
On 30.11.2010 16:47, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > On 11/30/2010 01:27 PM, Stefan Kost wrote: >> hi, >> >> I have seen that some applications use icons of flags to indicate >> countries (e.g. the deluge torrent client uses that to indicate the >> origin or a peer). I was wondering if that is something t

Re: [Usability] country flag icons in the UI

2010-11-30 Thread Andreas Nilsson
On 11/30/2010 03:47 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: That would make using the Swedish flag for swedish a somewhat proper as an indicator for content language. Maybe just having it say the name of the language would be better in that case. I mean improper here of course. - Andreas ___