Re: language chooser in GDM.. auto-reload gdm and language flags?

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Fri, 2004-11-19 at 04:35, Joao Clemente wrote:

> b) Display available language choices as flags in main display..
>   - Just like the "list users" feature, but for languages...
>   This one combined with the above, one would click the flag, set the 
> LANG and whatever variables and reload gdm into the desired language...

Oh no... don't say the f*** word :)

Seriously, flags are unlikely ever to be considered for inclusion in any application that falls under the GNOME, er... banner, and particularly not to represent languages, for reasons that are well-documented in various archives:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2003-November/msg00267.html

and more recently:
http://freedesktop.org/pipermail/xdg/2004-November/005399.html

Cheeri,
Calum.

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