Feature changed by: efuchs Feature #302957, revision 5 Title: Combined "where am I" page openSUSE-11.0: New Priority Requester: Mandatory SLED-11: New Priority Requester: Mandatory SLES-11: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: coolo@novell.com Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Our (openSUSE) statistics show that most of our users are not native english speakers. So I'm blindly assuming they do not have a english keyboard either and do not live in an english speaking timezone. So I want the first page to be not just the language in a blue box, but to have _one_ installation page with language, timezone and keyboard selection. These selections should depend on each other, so depending on where I click first the others change. To have a good looking addon, I picture the timezone selection as picture and not as fullscreen list boxes. Discussion: #1: coolo@novell.com (2007-11-09 11:48:30) An additional note, feature #302955 is related (split translations out of installation system). #2: jsrain@novell.com (2007-11-09 13:27:05) Isn't it easier for users who do not speak English to have the first dialog really as simple as possible (since they cannot read it)? Having just one selection box leads them straight where they need to get; I guess that most of them use mouse for installation, so keyboard is not an issue either... Also, we already have a support in isolinux to select language; then the first dialog is skipped. #3: coolo@novell.com (2007-11-09 14:13:14) If isolinux provides a language, then the page is not worse than the timezone page is now. Just that it also allows to change the language after the fact. If users do not grasp english _at all_, they will have a hard time booting the installation off the CD. So I would blindly assume that users have no problem with selecting Deutsch, русский or čeština when presented with a list even if they do not understand the exact context. And when next to that list is even a graphical presentation of the world, most will be able to select the part of the world they live in. + #4: evamaria.fuchs@novell.com (2007-11-09 16:00:35) + I think for the secondary target market of opensuse (first time user, + home user)an installer wizard that consists of a series of screens + would be convenient. + Basically it's preferable that language-, time-zone- and keyboard- + selection depend on each other so that modifying one will effect the + others. But - as I prefer a picture (e.g. a rotating globe) for time- + zone selection - sticking them together in one screen would clutter the + whole thing up. -- SUSE Feature Tool: http://partnerfate.suse.de/?rm=feature_show&id=302957