Bug#1035100: Unrelated political statement in main UI

Àlex alex at probeta.net
Sun Feb 16 20:10:34 GMT 2025


Good afternoon,

excuse my poor English,

Thonny is really useful IDE to teach computer programming in Python. But 
I don't expect find unrelated political statements in Debian packages, 
even if it is not easy drawing a line of whats appropriate and whats not,

I was also shocked by this message: "I can understand why Russian 
nationals might want to not see this message" : I am from a country who 
supports Ukraine, but even in my country I had to delete this program 
from my school computers, because not only is completely unethical 
indoctrinate students, but also illegal and I can go to Court because of 
that. I can wear a T-Shirt in support of Ukraine, but I can’t make my 
students wear it. I can use software with political statements, but I 
can’t make my students use it.

As Narcis said, there is the option of moving the political statements 
to a optional package.

The political unrelated content is in this files:



Four flags in:

- thonny/plugins/pi/res/Ukraine.png

- thonny/plugins/pi/res/Ukraine48.png

- thonny/res/Ukraine.png

- thonny/res/Ukraine_2x.png



File README.rst

- Line 1:.. image:: 
https://github.com/thonny/thonny/blob/master/thonny/res/Ukraine.png

- Line 3:`Support Ukraine! 
<https://github.com/thonny/thonny/wiki/Support-Ukraine>`_



File thonny/workbench.py

- Line 704: "SupportUkraine",

- Line 706: tr("Support Ukraine"),

- Line 708: image="Ukraine",

- Line 805: tr("Support Ukraine"),

- Line 807: # image=self.get_image("Ukraine"),

- Line 813: 
webbrowser.open("https://github.com/thonny/thonny/wiki/Support-Ukraine")



File thonny/plugins/pi/__init__.py

- Line 289: "Ukraine": "Ukraine48.png",

- Line 308: "Ukraine": "Ukraine.png",



File thonny/locale/thonny.pot

- Line 746:msgid "Support Ukraine"



In almost all files in thonny/locale/be_BY/LC_MESSAGES/ folder


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