Package Maintainers Flags policy

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Mon May 18 18:41:05 UTC 2009


Matthew Garrett wrote:
> They may expect the keyboard layout chooser to use them, but you end up
> with awkward situations where geopolitical flags don't usefully
> represent keyboard layouts that are used in multiple countries or
> countries which have multiple keyboard layouts. Even from a purely
> technical perspective, flags rarely accurately depict what you're trying
> to present to the user.

Yet KDE upstream and basically all the distros shipping KDE use them. We are
the odd ones out.

        Kevin Kofler




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