Re: language chooser clarity report
Agreed, your patch looks good to me. Reading the original poster's
message again, though, I think he might actually be complaining about
the debconf screen you get when configuring the "locales" package,
rather than the LC itself.
p.
On Fri, 2002-03-01 at 07:19, David Kimdon wrote:
> Maybe this will clear it up:
>
> Index: english.src
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/debian-boot/boot-floppies/utilities/dbootstrap/langs/english.src,v
> retrieving revision 1.8
> diff -u -r1.8 english.src
> --- english.src 2002/02/28 15:49:25 1.8
> +++ english.src 2002/03/01 07:20:28
> @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
> <language default="yes" name="English" charset="iso-8859-1" font="LatArCyrHeb-16" acm="iso01">
> <name>English</name>
> - <hint>en - You have chosen English. Press Enter to proceed</hint>
> + <hint>en - Press Enter here to proceed in English.</hint>
> <list>
> <name>Choose Language Variant</name>
>
> Admittedly the old way it says 'you have chosen English' even if you
> haven't.
>
> Seconds?
>
> -David
>
>
> Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 12:48:45AM -0500 wrote:
> > I suppose he is talking about the language chooser. The guy has entered
> > heavy "I'll bitch hard w/o giving any more meaningful information" mode
> > though, so don't bother emailing him. :-) Anyway, if it is lacking some
> > text along the lines of "If you think English is the only language, just
> > hit enter, dummy", perhaps such a thing should be added.
> >
> > ----- Forwarded message from Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> -----
> >
> > 2) There are several screens that are confusing. In particular the
> > Locales screen gave me pause. This is an area where even an
> > experienced linux user is not likely to be that comfortable, yet
> > there is no indication that it really doesn't need to be messed
> > with if you don't need foreign (ie not english) language support.
> >
> > ----- End forwarded message -----
> >
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> > see shy jo
> >
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