Package Maintainers Flags policy

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue May 19 22:29:03 UTC 2009



On Wed, 20 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> If a program means to say "choose your language" then they should say
>> "choose your language". Not "choose a flag from a linguistically
>> homogenous country".
>
> and Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> There isn't a 1:1 mapping between flags and languages, and arguably an
>> educational suite should be avoiding encouraging that confusion in
>> children.
>
> And how do you expect a child below reading age to read what you're writing
> on the screen? Because that's the target userbase of GCompris.
>

But you expect the child to recognize the flag of their country? sigh, 
cmon..

A child who can't read needs to be taught by an adult, who, in theory, 
can.

-sv




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