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 that would be >> encouraged or discencougaraged. If encouraged those flags could become >> part of the icon theme (so that we would not need separate packages such >> as famfamfam-flag-png under ubuntu). > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-November/msg00267.html > > The issue is that flags means nations, and what nation an area belongs > to is not always in agreement between everyone. >> Some guidelines regarding pitfalls when to use them and when not might >> be helpful too. I am writing a small toy to analyse media content I was >> considering to use flag icons to indicate the content languages (per >> stream/subtitle). > To bring up an example from my own country (and the situation is very > uncomplicated here compared to other areas of the world): > Swedish is not only spoken i Sweden, but also by some people in > Finland as their first language. At the same time, the Sami people in > the very north of Sweden speak Sami [1]. 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. > > 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sami_languages > - Andreas
I was only thinking of the cases like de, de_AT and other where different flags would still apply. Btw. We also have Sami in north of finnland where I am living nowadays. Thanks for the example. Stefan _______________________________________________ usability mailing list usability@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
