Re: Automated xkb/kde/fonts configuration after install
On Thursday 15 April 2004 02:40, Joey Hess wrote:
> 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?
As I remember it now, this is very close to what the
debian-edu/skolelinux team does I think. IIRC the package name for
this is skolelinux-locale-config and it configures the setting for X
keyboard, depending on the locale. I think that such a package would
be very welcome in Debian, esp. for users that are not speaking
english.
Anyway, from some point of view, it would be better if such a feature
would exist in the packages themselves, but it would mean duplication
of effort, for example the locale checking.
If we had something like language-env that executes small scripts on a
per language basis, that presed the debconf values then in reality we
wouldn't really tamper with the config files but rather offer preset
values, the user would always be able to change the values when
presented with the debconf dialog.
Of course that's only one aspect of the problem, because for example
KDE does not offer use really nice fonts after install, they're
really ugly! But perhaps I should just file a bug report on kdebase
to change the default fonts to something nicer, eg. ttf-freefont
would be fine because it supports pretty much every language
available.
Konstantinos
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