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Re: Isolinux and Multi language - How do you want it?



Hi,

(answering from memory, no time to check in the code right now.)

adrian15 wrote (15 Nov 2014 23:52:19 GMT) :
>   I suspect that current tails DM:
> * Does not recycle code from live-config which already codes how to change keyboard
> and locales.

Indeed. That's because:

1. live-config isn't meant to be run once the graphical login stage is
   reached => if someone wants to change that, then they'll have to do
   the same kind of refactoring that we've done in live-boot for the
   persistence support.

2. live-config has no facility to change the keyboard layout *live* in
   the greeter (and indeed, given its purpose is to pre-configure,
   early during boot, stuff that will run later, it seems to be out of
   its scope). We do need such a facility, so that the user can enter
   their persistence passphrase using their preferred keyboard layout.

> * Does not try to parse all the system available keyboard and locales to build its
> option dropdowns dynamically at boot but it uses an static list.

IIRC, the only hardcoded bit is the language -> default country
mapping, and everything else is dynamically built at runtime.

>   Not sure when I will have time but I will try to use current tails DM in my
> debian-live build system and see how it goes. Then I will try to implement what, in
> my opinion is lacking for being integrated into Debian live.

\o/

Cheers,
-- 
intrigeri


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