On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 13:50 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:15:22AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
[...]
> > Among the ones I mentioned,
> > 
> > - language/country/keyboard: we can't afford to omit them.
> 
> If you _really_ want to do this (and I don't think it's possible) then
> you can have a super easy - "Oh, you're in the UK, so you want UK
> timezone, British keyboard" where you click on a map and highlight UK
> and click OK / hit Enter
>
> This is very similar to the first run of something like MacOS
> but - it doesn't cater for minority languages, where you might want to
> set your machines to a fixed timezone without daylight saving time ...
[...]

Implementing locale selection using a map also runs the risk of getting
your software banned in countries that disagree with where you put the
borders.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.

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