keyboard flags

[lofty forge]

please help me change this flag to flag of kurdistan

so it worked after replacing the flag with the flag of iran, but it doesnt really look good, how do i redesign it to work as it inteded to be

[languid lava]

So, what are you trying to do? And why exactly?

[lofty forge]

can you basically make that flag a flag of kurdistan

[languid lava]

So...is there a Kurdish keyboard layout or something?

[lofty forge]

there is but

the flag used is the flag of iran

a country which executes and oppresses us

so i dont like it and decided to replace the flag

under usr/share/isoflags

but it wont look as good since

its not designed as the other flags

[languid lava]

Soooo, why don't you open a bug report against the keyboard locales package like a sane person instead of jumping into the alleging racism and saying you don't care? That is not going to get you much sympathy and makes you just as bad in terms of intolerance and hostility.

[lofty forge]

mint devs will most likely not listen

[languid lava]

You are aware that the Mint developers do not control the upstream locales package yes?

[lofty forge]

ughhh is the flag editable or not

ion have time for this

[languid lava]

Yes, you do.

If you are unwilling to follow the proper protocol to even get your issue listened to properly, I have no time for you in this server.

Good day sir.

[languid lava]

Now then

You need to track down the package that's responsible for the keyboard locales and/or displaying the flags. @lofty forge

You then find out if that's a package inherited from Ubuntu, is packaged for Mint specifically, or has its own bug tracker.

Since I am able to, I have notified the couple Mint people who are here who might be able to provide that information, but I can't guarantee they'll know or be able to do anything to help. Is that understood?

[lofty forge]

So

Theres a path usr/share/iso flags

And the flags are located there

I can merely replace the iran flag with my one but it wont look as good and

It'll still be there for everyone else

So idk, what do you think i do?

[languid lava]

And there is already a Kurdish flag and Kurdish keyboard layouts available?

[lofty forge]

No there's actually not.

[languid lava]

So no flag, but layouts exist.

[lofty forge]

So the keyboard is programmed to show iran flag when its selected

[lofty forge]

Yeah indeed

[languid lava]

I do not know the rules that govern what flags get displayed or even added to the system, I part wonder if you're going to have the same issue as the Catalonia guy from a few months back.

Regardless, yes, filing a bug report would be the best way forward.

[lofty forge]

Yeah thats a root fixing of the problem. where can i report that tho.

[languid lava]

Like I said, it depends on the package.

It might need to be upstreamed to Ubuntu or something.

[lofty forge]

So like, in that case i have to report it to ubuntu instead?

[languid lava]

For the package in Ubuntu, yes.

The problem is, I don't know what is responsible for pulling the icon like that, I'm assuming since it's the keyboard switcher in Cinnamon it might be worth reporting there, but equally it might not be the package responsible for providing and assigning the flags.

[lofty forge]

Yeah. Thats tricky.

But ill still try my luck reporting to cinnamon, where do i do that?

[languid lava]

Et voila

https://projects.linuxmint.com/reporting-an-issue.html

[lofty forge]

Thanks appreciated

[languid lava]

There's hope for you yet ;)

[lofty forge]

Yep thats why I'll still try and see what i can do.