Nationality independence ? Look at flags in new dictionaries in beta4

l10n
#1

Hi,

I was under the impression that we were "nationality neutral", by which
I mean that we did not use national flags to represent languages.
However, if I look at the massive list of dictionaries now included as
extensions in a default Mac beta4 installation - note that I get no
choice as to whether I want them or not - I see that at least 4
dictionaries have a nation's flag as their icon. This seems to be a case
of double standards. I hope then, if we are to maintain our neutrality,
that these flag icons will be removed before LibO 3.4 goes final ?

Alex

#2

Hi Alex,

I was under the impression that we were "nationality neutral", by which
I mean that we did not use national flags to represent languages.

Thanks for the bugreport, I removed the national flags.

Best regards,
Andras

#3

Hi Andras,

Hi Alex,

I was under the impression that we were "nationality neutral", by which
I mean that we did not use national flags to represent languages.

Thanks for the bugreport, I removed the national flags.

Thanks, just saw the change on the dev IRC channel.

Alex

#4

Whew. Thank you for noticing that and acting to fix it quickly.

#5

Andras Timar wrote:

2011/5/10 Alexander Thurgood <...>:
> I was under the impression that we were "nationality neutral", by which
> I mean that we did not use national flags to represent languages.

Thanks for the bugreport, I removed the national flags.

I can't check whether this includes the Italian dictionary, but if it
does I would keep the flag, which is closely related to our language,
has been there for a long time and is completely "politically
correct" (nobody ever would question associating the Italian language
with the Italian flag, and nobody ever did); I understand this may be
very different for other languages, but doing it for Italian seems quite
useless at best.

Regards,
  Andrea.