[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13806) Art: Package of resized flag

["Daniel Markstedt" <himasaram@xxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13806 >

>
> I agree with you now that we should make all flags 3:2.  Even the Swiss
> flag can easily be modified to fit this ratio and still be perfectly
> recognizable.  With all flags at 3:2 it makes the players and nations
> dialogs look a lot better.
>
They no doubt will.

> However rather than fix all of the SVGs as I suggested earlier I think
> we should enforce this in the conversion script.  This patch forces all
> flags to be 24x16 (plus 2 pixels of flag border making them 26x18).
>
This sounds like a good idea for many flags.

> I think this obsoletes your new SVG flags.  However some of the flags
> may need fixing in the new system, since a 3:2 version may look better
> if it's not simply a scaled version of the existing flag.  For instance
> the swiss flag might look better if the cross remains a cross and only
> the red background is scaled.
>
> Thoughts?
>
> -jason
>
It does obsolete some of them. But as you said, several flags has 
shapes that will look distorted and strange if simply scaled. Apart 
from Switzerland, this is a list of most of them:

Afghanistan
Argentina
Australia
Azerbaijan
Bosnia
Canada
Cheyenne
Croatia (possibly)
Ethiopia
Malaysia
Mongolia
New Zealand
Rome (possibly)
Slovenia (possibly)
USA

Many of these are included in my package. Can you commit them to the 
CVS or do you want me to repackage them? I can make the other ones when 
we see how these turn out.

The crosses of various Nordic countries might not scale well too, but 
that is to be seen.

Daniel