Bug 6278

Summary:	preferences-desktop-locale to use non US (international) flags
Product:	tango	Reporter:	Jorn Baayen <jorn.baayen>
Component:	icon theme	Assignee:	Jakub Steiner <jimmac>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	high
Version:	CVS
Hardware:	x86 (IA32)
OS:	Linux (All)
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:

Description Jorn Baayen 2006-03-16 01:42:46 UTC

The "Find Local Support" icon displays the US flag. I don't think this is a good
idea because:

- "Local" implies other languages besides English, and so, the US being English 
  speaking, a US flag is not relevant

- The US has acquired a questionable reputation in recent world history and a US 
  flag may therefore offend people

I'd suggest using imaginary flags or flags of 'neutral' countries. (I thought
the previous combination of the Czech republic and Ireland was pretty neat)

Comment 1 Jakub Steiner 2006-03-17 01:20:00 UTC

I have changed the summary to reflect the core of the request. If I
misinterpreted, please correct me. 

I kinda agree with your reasoning and will give it a shot. To fix things in a
shorter time frame, do you think just replacing the order of the flags, making
german topmost would make things better?

Comment 2 Jorn Baayen 2006-03-17 01:24:41 UTC

Cool. Yea, switching the flags would already be an improvement IMO.

Comment 3 Jakub Steiner 2006-03-17 04:02:26 UTC

2006-03-16  Jakub Steiner <jimmac@ximian.com>

	* preferences-desktop-locale: flip the flag order to emphesise on
	  "international". See bug #6278

Leaving open as the czech/irish would probably be even better.

Comment 4 Rodney Dawes 2006-03-21 07:36:59 UTC

No flags at all would be best. This is actually an icon that a globe would be
useful for. How about a globe and passport combo? Seems quite fitting to me.
Let's try to keep political comments and personal opinions out of bugzilla
though. And it's a good idea to avoid potential political issues in icons such
as this, where something other than flags, would probably be better.

Comment 5 Daniel Holbach 2006-04-24 22:21:25 UTC

This is discussed in
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/tango-icon-theme/+bug/40480 as well.

Comment 6 Rodney Dawes 2007-02-15 20:43:07 UTC

Fixed in CVS. I just made the flags be basic tango color flags, rather than actual representations of flags.

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