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

Thu Nov 25 07:38:33 CET 2010

2010/10/25 atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>:
+> 2010/10/25 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+>> 2010/10/25 atilla ontas <tarakbumba at gmail.com>:
+>>>
+>>> 3- A dialog popup appears and asks if he/she wans to select language
+>>> 4- If an active internet connection detected  notifies users that
+>>> selected languge will downloaded from net otherwise user use live
+>>> system in English.
+>>
+>> This is not a good idea.
+>>
+>> Whatever installation method you use, it has to be available in the
+>> user's language, otherwise he will not install.
+>>
+>> Besides, this is a no-go for the live CD as a demo asset. How could a
+>> user evaluate Mageia when he doesn't understand the language because
+>> there is only WiFI around at the moment he has time to look at the CD?
+>>
+>> --
+>> wobo
+>>
+>
+> I don' t agree, sorry. Live CDs are not demo assets for most of the
+> people other than europe or america. Their relatively small size and
+> installation capability make them an installation media for limited
+> internet users. Most people do not want to install a DVD.
+>
+Hello,
+I'm from Taiwan and agreed with your point that most people, usually,
+do not want to install a DVD. However, because of that reason, we need
+the localized Live CD more because it's very useful for those who have
+no internet connection at all during installation. It's very important
+that only Mandriva has provided Live-CD that includes full Chinese
+(Simplified and Traditional) DE. For Ubuntu, SuSE, it would require
+additional time to configure internet connection, download extra
+language packages to have a working DE with local language, while for
+Mandriva we only need just one disc and intall it.
+
+I also want to suggest if you would like to discuss this topic in
+Mageia-i18n, there might be people who want to provide their opinion
+but didn't subscribe Mageia-dev list.
+
+Regards,
+
+You-Cheng Hsieh
+