Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (648 mails)

[Andrew Joakimsen <joakimsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 04:36, Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> There's in bugzilla a user from Australia. Currently during installation,
> you choose a language at the first screen and then automatically the
> keyboard is changed to the primary keyboard for that language.
>
> He and others from Australia install with language "English (UK)" but uses
> an US keyboard - and apparently the US keyboard is common in most of the
> commonwealth.
>
> Since these users than do not change the keyboard setting, they have a
> system installed that does not work for them with their keyboard.
>
> for details see:
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=656023
>
> Is this a common problem? Should we change it - and has anybody a good idea
> on how to change it?
>
> For me as German, I like the way that if I select "German" as language, I
> get a German keyboard setup automatically, so I do not want to move away
> from that one.
>
> I see right now the following options:
> 1) Leave everything as is and close the bugreport as WONTFIX.
> 2) Handle "English (UK)" special and use the "English US" keyboard.
> 3) Do not change keyboard at all.
> 4) Add some more locales, like "English (AU)" that use English (UK) as
> language but English US keyboard.
> 5) Any other ideas?
>
> Andreas
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Steal the way MacOS does it?

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