On 11/30/2010 04:36 AM, Andreas Jaeger 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?
Why not let the user decide? In cases where there is a one to one mapping, i.e. German use the current behavior. In cases where there is a one to many mapping provide a selection menu for the keyboard. Robert -- Robert Schweikert MAY THE SOURCE BE WITH YOU Software Engineer Consultant LINUX rschweikert@novell.com 781-464-8147 Novell Making IT Work As One -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org