Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-usability (108 mails)

[Andrew Laignel <a.laignel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> * Selecting your exact city Location might provide extra information,
> such as keyboard layout

My pet peeve in most installers is having to tell it the exact same 
location information ~4 times - Install Language, OS Language, Time Zone 
& Keyboard Layout.  I think selecting a city is a good idea as all 
further information, in most cases, can be figured out from this.

Maybe if you clicked on an area on the map it would present the nearest 
10 or so cities in a list, and you could then select one which would 
load the location presets.  Maybe clicking could zoom in to the world 
map and present labeled cities in that area you can subsequently select 
from?

As a further idea is it possible to sniff location information from the 
hardware to make a guess at where the user is?  If the machine in 
question has a LAN connection you could probably do a location trace on 
the IP.  You can probably also initially narrow it down by comparing the 
system clock to what a time server says to work out which time zone.

Just a thought.
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