Re: Easier customization of GUI language

[Roland Clobus <rclobus@rclobus.nl>]

Hello Narcis,

On 12/08/2025 12:10, Narcis Garcia wrote:
> Hello; I've tested:
>
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-cinnamon
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-debian-junior
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-gnome
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-kde
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-lxde
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-lxqt
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-mate
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-standard
> debian-live-13.0.0-amd64-xfce
>
> And Gnome flavour seems to be the only one that allows user to change 
> GUI language with only visual steps (no command line, offline).
>
> KDE is very near, but others aren't.
> I think boot menu should help on this.
> There are much more people outside english-speaking community that 
> inside, and much more people outside ICT-experts community than inside.

In my talk on DebConf25 I presented the kernel parameters to boot into 
another language.

https://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2025/DebConf25/debconf25-755-debian-on-the-go.av1.webm

Time: 8m40s

E.g. for Argentinian: `locales=es_AR.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=latam,es`

I know this has been discussed before (as well as with you), see e.g. 
[1][2]. It's also on the TODO list [3]

So far, I haven't found the time to support this feature. For Debian 11 
(when another tool was used to build the live images) there was an 
experimental menu with languages.

My request for help: if someone can point me to a list with the 
following information, I can try to add it to the boot menu:
* language name in English
* language name in the local language
* value for locales
* suitable value for keyboard-layouts
* perhaps a value for the preferred timezone 'live-config.timezone'?

The package 'localechooser' has parts of this [4] in 'languagelist', but 
it is missing the suitable values for the keyboard mapping.

With kind regards,
Roland Clobus

[1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2021/09/msg00022.html
[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2023/06/msg00029.html
[3] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/TODO
[4] https://salsa.debian.org/installer-team/localechooser

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