Bug#630575: Icelandic Dvorak keyboard layout isn't there either
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, le Mon 05 Mar 2012 12:36:40 +0100, a écrit :
> I must say I find this annoying as well, the Icelandic Dvorak Keyboard
> layout is also missing, so my installation of Debian always goes like
> this:
>
> 1. I choose "Dvorak"
Why not just choosing Icelandic? (which is already selected by default)
> 2. I can't type my real name when I create a user, I type "whatever" instead
> 3. I'm limited in the passwords I can pick
You'd then be able to type your real name and not be limited.
> I hadn't bothered with looking into whether this was a
> debian-installer bug before, I just assumed that it was an issue in
> the layout not being available.
As said in first answer to the bug, this is on purpose, to avoid a
profusion of choices in the list of keymaps, to keep installing Debian
as simple as possible. We assume that people who know dvorak also know
the traditional layout and will be able to change the layout afterwards
by dpkg-reconfigure-ing keyboard-configuration.
> I think a much better way to deal with this would be to have a way to
> collapse these options. So when you select e.g. "Norwegian" you get a
> second dialog where you can select the keyboard type, i.e. standard,
> dvorak etc.
Which was precisely rejected because it'd confuse users which don't know
what "dvorak" is.
> Or just list them all, the "region and language" dialog in GNOME does
> so and users don't get too confused by that.
Experience showed they do. And that would carry a lot of translations,
making d-i bigger and unusable in small platforms.
Samuel
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