[Mageia-dev] Suggestion-Locales management for One (or Live) Cd releases

Mon Oct 25 13:04:07 CEST 2010

2010/10/25 atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>:
+> 2010/10/25 Ahmad Samir <ahmadsamir3891 at gmail.com>:
+>>>
+>>
+>> And if there's no active internet connection at installation time?
+>> Ahmad Samir
+>>
+>
+> Well, they will use live environment in english after installation and
+> install corresponding package like normal package installation. That's
+> all. The situation in my proposal with no internet is same as the
+> locales do not have supported in live cd releases. i.e. Azerbaijani.
+> If someone needs full locale or packages support it already have to
+> install from Free dvd release. Don't they?
+
+Then, all of this must be explained to the user, plus the current
+keyboard layout must be explicit and the user should easily be able to
+switch from a layout to another (for example, when I read english, I
+prefer having an english keyboard, even if physically it's an azerty
+-french- one...)
+
+> 2010/10/25 Thorsten van Lil <tvl83 at gmx.de>:
+>> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
+>> Von: mageia-dev-bounces at mageia.org [mailto:mageia-dev-bounces at mageia.org] Im Auftrag von atilla ontas
+>>
+>>> I propose to implement an Ubuntu like, install time or in live
+>>> enviroment language packs installing. How this should work?
+>>>
+>>> What do you think?
+>>
+>> As I installed Ubuntu last weekend myself, I want to mention my POV to that mechanism.
+>> It's hard for those who doesn't want or can't connect to the internet during installation, but for those may the One be the wrong installation method.
+>> The bigger problem in the current state of the ubuntu installation process is, that you have to enter the passphrase for a wireless connection with the wrong keyboard layout. After that you where prompted to enter a key for the gnome keyring and it wasn't clear at that time which keyboard layout is used. Also in the end of the installation where you have to enter a password for the user.
+>>
+>> So, if Mageia wants to offer an similar method, we need to take care of that.
+>>
+>> Regards,
+>> Thorsten
+>>
+>>
+>
+> Wireless connections are mostly issues in free dvd releases too.
+> People have to enable non-free repository and install wireless drivers
+> on most cases. Also, misconfiguration of keyboard layout is a serious
+> problem than having native language support, you must find right key
+> kombination to setup and use root password. So, i can' t agree with
+> this issue, it is not related just with my proposal but with entire
+> system.
+>
+> I think my proposal have much more pros than cons.
+>
+
+IMHO we don't care about that anymore if we start thinking on a one
+edition that is a live DVD instead of a live CD : who cares ? (while
+there remains a mini/net install that requires less than 700MB of a CD
+of course...)
+