Re: Countrychooser changes

["Pedro M." <pmacv@telefonica.net>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> Christian Perrier wrote:
>
> > The new version now first shows the user the list of the countries for
> > which a valid locale exists in /usr/share/i18n/SUPPORTED, depending on
> > the language chosen in languagechooser.
> >
> > If one of these countries is selected, both the
> > debian-installer/country AND debian-installer/locale are changed
> > accordingly.
>
>
> I'm having a hard time seeing how a user is supposed to unststand this.
> Put yourself in the mindset of a user who does not know about locales,
> and certianly does not know about supported locales. All of the existing
> (IMHO over-verbose and confusing) text in the two questions will be
> ignored. The user will be annoyed if their actual contry is not in the
> first list, and will go pick it from the second list. The installer will
> do something reasonable with the locale, or not. The user will be
> annoyed he saw two more questions than seem to be necessary.
>
> I can't imagine that many users will read and understand the warnings, and
> opt to pick a country from the first list that is not really their
> country, just to get a locale setting that is closer to what they
> desire.
A default one could be set (by default by the installation program).


> 4. Customised or automated installs would be able to pre-seed the
>    language, country, and locale as is appropriate for their target
>    audience.

About automation, what about a program that translates the m$-Windows 
options in Windows partition into Debian options ( language, locale and 
so on). This is very interesting for migration user ( user with windows 
installed and that want to migrate to Debian).

The options from m$-Windows would be suggested like default in Linux.

This would be a Migration Translator ;)

Regards.