Re: Bits about countrychooser and languagechooser
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:47:50PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
>> My suggestion was much more humble, I was thinking about something like:
>>
>> Language selected: English
>>
>> Based on your chosen language, the following
>> default settings can be used for the install.
>> If they are fine, you won't be prompted for them
>> anymore. Otherwise you will be able to change
>> these settings during the install.
>>
>> Country: United States
>> Keyboard: us
>> Time Zone: US/Eastern
>> Debian mirror: http.us.debian.org
>>
>> Do you accept these settings?
>> [*] Yes [ ] No
> That does have the advantage of not needing to really be able to
> configure the mirror and time zone immediatly after languagechooser
> (using the packages in the initrd). Any thoughts though on how it would
> get the default mirror and timezone info? And as I see it the problem
> with just a yes/no is that in the example above, probably 50% of the
> users will not be in that time zone, and this will mean they'll have to
> manually pick keyboard, mirror, and country too if they say "no".
[Apologies for the extreme amount of quoted text, but I felt it was
neccessary :-)]
What about something taking the above and transforming it into a menu?
Something along the lines of
Language selected: English
Based on your chosen language, the following
default settings can be used for the install.
If they are fine, select "Accept". Otherwise
you can change them by selecting the appropriate
menu entry.
Country: United States [ change ]
Keyboard: us [ change ]
Time Zone: US/Eastern [ change ]
Debian mirror: http.us.debian.org [ change ]
[ Accept ]
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