On 2003-11-26(Wed) 01:22:47 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > Again, it's all or nothing. You can't take a few "offensive" flags out and > not expect to be flamed to high heaven by the people who stand by those > symbols. If there is to be a package of flags, it should be *every* flag, > and up to distributors / us as to whether they're shipped or not. Exactly. last time Taiwan people see the removal of Taiwan flags as downright discrimination of Taiwan. It's this discrimination that people dislike most, and I'm sure nobody wants to be treated as so. It's the same if GNOME decides to remove Iraq flags because US dislikes it, or remove Pakistan flag because India dislikes it. That's unarguable. Will GNOME remove US flag because somebody find it offensive? > The solutions raised that make sense include a flag icon theme component, > localising icons, and a couple of others. Some may be overkill. But we can't > be halfarsed about it. Out of these 2, probably localized icons is better solution. Making icon theme means that somebody won't be able to use particular themes, and I guess that's not good as well (though better than discrimination). Local people usually knows what shouldn't appear in their desktop, so they can tweak it to not offend their gov'n, while others won't have artificial limitations of choice. Abel > > - Jeff > > -- > GVADEC 2004: Kristiansand, Norway http://2004.guadec.org/ > > "I tried to make money ass signing, but the bottom fell out of the > market." - Liam Quin > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list gnome org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Abel Cheung Linux counter #256983 | http://counter.li.org GPG Key: (0xC67186FF) | http://deaddog.org/gpg.asc Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF
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