Bug ID 1216810
Summary jeos-firstboot: better locale selection
Classification openSUSE
Product openSUSE Tumbleweed
Version Current
Hardware Other
OS Other
Status NEW
Severity Normal
Priority P5 - None
Component MicroOS
Assignee fvogt@suse.com
Reporter lnussel@suse.com
QA Contact qa-bugs@suse.de
CC gmoro@suse.com, schwab@suse.de
Target Milestone ---
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On MicroOS only the en_US locale is installed in glibc. Therefore the current
jeos-firstboot code does not offer to select a locale and assumes en_US. There
are follow up dialogs to select a keyboard and time zone though. Normally those
lists pre-select a sensible default based on locale. Especially the keyboard
selection is rather annoying as there are e.g. a lot of German keyboard layouts
but mostly only de-nodeadkeys makes sense.

So I wonder how usability could be improved. One way could be to just show the
locale selector based on live-langset-data and put an explanation text and
maybe asterisk on not actually installed locales. glibc-locale could be
installed based on too after all.

Or maybe only show keyboard layouts that are also in the langset data? That
would be congruent with how locale selection works.

Last but not least maybe it makes sense to split glibc-locale to only include
the locales we actually show in the installers?

localhost:~ # ls -1 /usr/share/langset/|wc -l
59
localhost:~ # ls -1d /usr/lib/locale/*.utf8|wc -l
151


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