Description of problem: In Islam and some Islamic countries, playing cards are banned because they are considered gambling instruments. For this reason, the default icon used for the games comps group is not appropriate, as it displays a playing card. This may create problems in Islamic countries for Fedora users/advocates, and also the icon will be misleading for the games group, as it will represent illegal activities (negative) for certain users, instead of mind games (positive). Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): comps-extras-11.1-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Do a custom installation and ask to select packages individually. Actual results: You can see a playing card under a chess pawn as the icon for games. Expected results: Something more culturally neutral. Additional Info: Sharif Linux ships a modified version that shows a mahjongg piece instead of the playing card. FarsiWeb's internal reference: comps-extras-games.png, originally reported by Roozbeh Pournader
Created attachment 129341 [details] Alternative image by Farzad Ghanei using a mahjongg piece instead of a card
See also bug #192001
Adding Diana to the cc list. I'm fine with changing the image, but would appreciate her input on what to change it to.
Adding Jrb...What do you think?
Roozbeh: Out of curiousity, any country other than Iran has such rules that you know of? My experience was that playing cards and backgammon are pretty common in public spaces in Syria, Turkey, UAE, and Saudi Arabia.
(In reply to comment #5) > Roozbeh: Out of curiousity, any country other than Iran has such rules that you > know of? I am not sure about the governments (and currently don't have the time to investigate it, you should probably ask the arabeyes guys), but a Google search tells me that some non-Iranian muslim marjas/muftis also forbid cards: http://www.al-islam.org/organizations/AalimNetwork/msg00657.html http://www.al-islam.org/organizations/AalimNetwork/msg00597.html
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