On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:28:09PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Pixel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are other solutions to boot with big initrds, which could be i18n. I > > don't think it's worth the pb though. But anyway, that's gc's part. WDT gc? > > the problem is too small for me to bother doing i18n, e.g. > handling of message translations and handling of different > keyboard maps, since all newbies go through cdrom.img which is > 100% automatic.
I was not thinking of getting all the i18n messages on a special boot.img just for special booting. It was only the keyboard. And this was indeed primarily meant for testers. I find it very annoying and I make a lot of keying errors to try to remember all of the US keys on my danish keyboard. It takes me longer to test things with this, and I am not the only tester that uses normal non-us keyboards. The keys of my keyboard are in my fingers, I do not think about them. So when a key like - or / are placed differently it severely slows down my typing. My other request was for all i18n to be on the cooker distribution. This is not because I do not understand english, but because I have used quite some time of my wee hours to translate specific Mandrake software into danish. And if I should have any chance of testing my work (of which I do expect Mandrake to also benefit from, in the Danish market) i need it on the cooker distribution. If not, then the only go I have for it is on the official release. If MandrakeSoft wants a quality product in other marketplaces than the US, France and germany, then you should have a plan for doing QA on these languages. And then better include them all, I think. Kind regards keld
