Re: Bits about countrychooser and languagechooser
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:47:50PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> Denis Barbier 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".
What about having this same questions asked twice.
The first time, you only want to do language/country/keyboard asking,
so, the timezone and debianmirror is either not shown, or is greyed out,
since you have no information on it. Later the exact same fialog is
used, but with the two additional infos available for modification.
Friendly,
Sven Luther
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