Flag icons for language selection

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1 Initial Problem

Currently, the language selection in the metabar is displayed as follows

The square brackets give the appearance of something being broken and this is not preferable when first contacting the system.

2 Conceptual Summary

The suggestion would be either to drop the square brackets or to link country flags to a data dictionary similar to languages (monochrome or colored).

If we decide to use an additional icon directory during the implementation, it is recommended to maintain a new "Flag" area in the Kitchen Sink within "Symbols".

Icon measures are predefined:

3 User Interface Modifications

3.1 List of Affected Views

• Login-Screen

3.2 User Interface Details

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3.3 New User Interface Concepts

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3.4 Accessibility Implications

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4 Technical Information

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5 Privacy

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6 Security

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7 Contact

• Author of the Request: Detemple, Konstanze [kdetemple]
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8 Funding

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9 Discussion

Kunkel, Matthias [mkunkel], 28 FEB 2024: Flags are representing countries, not languages. People from Austria speak German but have a different flag than Germany. Not to mention English and the vast amount of English-speaking countries. We are already unhappy that we use abstract flags for the language setting in the Public Area. But using 1:1 relations for languages is not a good idea. If we want to display something, we could use the two-character language codes, e.g. EN, DE, FR... Not sexy but correct.

10 Implementation

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