[Freeciv-Dev] Re: next changes for nations...

[Jason Dorje Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Daniel Markstedt wrote:
> > - Use of new city styles (see PR#13893).
> Um, that ticket contained only nonsense (to me...)
>
> However, I know what you're referring to. If you could provide a hint on 
> how to make the fallback city style syntax, it would be much easier.
I'll look into it.  Maybe it's not possible yet?

> > - Legends for all nations (better to do sooner than later since they 
> > must all be translated).
> I'm adding a legend to any nation I'm updating with something else. Do 
> you think we need to make a huge add-all-legends patch once and for all 
> and be done with it?
Sounds good.

> > - 3:2 aspect ratio for flags. If this is what's desired, we should 
> > change the renderer to enforce it and fix any flag that doesn't show 
> > properly at this ratio.
> I like this proposition. However, it'd be nice if the rendering code 
> allowed everything in between 3:2 and 1:1, instead of stretching them 
> horizontally. Just limit their vertical size to match that of 3:2 so 
> they won't look so oversized. I know that for example the Danes and 
> Swiss are quite picky about the form factor of their respective flags..
OK, I agree that we can't enforce the 3:2 in the renderer.  We can limit 
the vertical size in addition to the horizontal size but this will take 
a little ugly coding in convert_png.
Also many of the 2:1 flags (SVG files) should be replaced with 3:2 
variants.  I think you had a patch for this...could you revive it?
> > - An updated file doc/README.nations explaining adding of new nations 
> > (flags and ruleset files and bootstrap data). This can be taken 
> > directly from the wiki I think. It should of course list our standards.
> Some text can be moved from the doc/README.rulesets file too.
Sure.

> > What other standards should we have for nations?
> At least one relevant civil war nation. A civil war nation should be 
> historically, geographically and/or linguistically related to the 
> current nation. In my opinion, being linguistically related is 
> especially relevant, since city names are chosen from civil war nations 
> when you run out of them yourself.
Yes.

Let's do these 4 things before adding new nations.  Then we can make 
them standards and require new nations to follow them.
-jason