Konstantinos Margaritis wrote: > localized KDE system but I had to do some extra steps that I believe > could be automated as well. > These are: > * setting up the fonty debconf value to ISO-8859-7 (for greek in > console) > * setting up the X keyboard debconf value to 'us,el' and the > XkbOptions to 'grp:alt_shift_toggle' so that keymap switching is > possible instantly. > * Configuring KDE to use some truetype font (this one does not get > configured with debconf and would require tampering of some KDE > config file (.kderc probably) > > Now, is there a package that I could use to incorporate these > settings? So that before the installation of the aforementioned > packages I could preset the debconf values so that they don't get > asked again (or if asked they should at least have a preset value). > I thought about configure-debian, but I'm not sure, perhaps even > base-config? If not, should I create my own package? I think that > option is not ideal, as what I'm trying to do is not really that > specific to greek, I presume other languages would like such a > automatic configuration. Perhaps there is already such a package, in > which case I would really appreciate it if you told me about it :-) I'm sure there is such a package somewhere, but I doubt we want to use such a package as part of the stock debian install. In particular, we should stay away from modifying other package's config files, and preseeding debconf questions feels a bit unclean for the default install. Wouldn't it be better if the packages you mentioned above took note of the system locale and behaved properly? -- see shy jo
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