Package Maintainers Flags policy
Matthew Garrett
mjg at redhat.com
Mon May 18 18:33:02 UTC 2009
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 07:32:56PM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> It shall be noted that many users complained about flags being removed (they
> expect the keyboard layout chooser to use them), and the current solution
> where -flags is optional and not installed by default isn't very helpful
> either (but better than not having them at all).
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.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
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