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

Mon Oct 25 16:12:31 CEST 2010

Ahmad Samir a écrit :
+> On 25 October 2010 12:32, atilla ontas<tarakbumba at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>    
+>> 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?
+>>
+>>      
+> So instead of having a few un-localised installations, e.g.
+> Azerbaijani, we force all users with no active internet connection to
+> do an installation in English even if they don't know any English?
+> This isn't ideal.
+>    
+
+Exactly.  Since the "One" CDs are oriented to those just trying Linux 
+(or the distro), it seems to me that the user is much less likely to 
+have a good grasp of English, especially in a computer context, than, 
+for example, a typical contributor.
+
+I would tend to go in the other direction.
+I've noticed that the Mandriva One for the middle east, which contains 
+Arabic localisations, is missing the French, despite the fact that the 
+Magreb (North Africa) Arabic-speaking countries use French (and not 
+Arabic) in their public school systems for science and technology 
+(including computer science).  Arabic being reserved for other subjects.
+As well, French is widely used in Lebanon.
+There are certainly other languages missing on the "One" CDs.
+
+Perhaps a better solution to the perceived problem is to provide a very 
+accessible description listing the languages on the particular "One" CD.
+Now the user has to check the contents of a file describing the various 
+ISOs, which is not necessarily obvious to the uninitiated.
+These descriptions could also elaborate on other content of the ISO in 
+question.
+
+- André
+