Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Jeff Mahoney wrote:
> On 11/30/2010 09:26 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 30 November 2010 12:01:03 C wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:36, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> > > [...]
> > > > > 4) Add some more locales, like "English (AU)" that use English (UK)
> > as
> > > > language but English US keyboard.
> > >
> > > This might be the best solution overall... but how many variants do
> > > you add?  English (AU), (CA), (KE), (NI), (IN) etc etc? I think it
> > > might be better to add a single variant that somehow indicates English
> > > (UK) with English (US) keyboard since in most Commonwealth country
> > > cases, the country specific English is, as stated in the bug report,
> > > all UK based (eg Kenya uses UK spelling on US keyboards exactly as
> > > Australia does.. but there's no gain in having multiple locales with
> > > the same settings).  How about English International?  (or something
> > > similar)
> >
> > Spelling is one setting, but locale like decimal point and currency is
> > another one - and those are different...
> >
> > So which locale should be used? For "English (AU)", we would use en_AU as
> > locale so that the user gets Australian Dollars instead of English Pounds
> > (with en_UK).
> >
> > And should we really add many of these and bloat up the list or follow the
> > "English International" idea? Or would that just confuse users? it might
> > not be clear for them that they would get UK spelling ;)
>
> I really like the geolocation idea integrated with the timezone map.
> Point out where you are, and the list can be as long as it needs to be
> since it's hidden from most users. Have an expert button for users like
> Per or "C" that are among the minority that don't have a setup that
> matches the locale.

The timezone screen currently is the third IIRC so it's too late
there. Maybe the map (and only the map) should be made the first
screen instead. Based on what country the user chooses a second
screen could suggest language, keyboard and time zone. The default
selection for the map could indeed be based on geolocation, it's
just a hint that can be changed easily after all.

cu
Ludwig

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