https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1812
Product: Installation
Component: Installation
Summary: can't choose keyboard unless already chose more than one
language
Version: 1.786
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This has always bugged me a bit with the install process (in previous versions,
too). I use Linux in English, but on a French laptop. Unless I (as an
uninitiated user) know beforehand that I need to also choose French (or, in
fact, any second language), I can't choose a French keyboard during the install
process.
Since the installer allows *any* keyboard layout to be chosen, as long as more
than one language was picked (very nice option!), why not have a keyboard
selection as a part of all installs? At the very least, it would serve to
confirm a user's configuration and allow them a chance to tweak if needed.
For example, "US keyboard (international)" is a very useful choice -- but it
isn't language dependant. Yet unless I've already chosen another language, I
don't have that choice during the install.
Always having a keyboard layout confirmation step as a part of the localization
process seems natural. And placing it before the "License" step would further
bind it with the language selection.
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