On Fri, Sep 26, 2003 at 08:03:32AM -0700, Chris Tillman wrote: > > This isn't really an issue, since when d-i is finished, we can run with > > priority high, which won't display the main menu. For now, we want to keep > > it at medium for debugging reasons. > > How will a language be chosen then? You mean the default installer > will be English-only and will require _no_ user interaction? > Or just that the language chooser will always be presented first > (priority=low) without a main menu choice being necessary?
The questions that languagechooser is asking are asked at priority high or critical, I don't remember which, but main-menu is at priority medium, so if we set debconf/priority to "high", languagechooser's questions will be asked, but the main-menu will never be visible. > I think there will be many users who want or need to use the main > menu, but do not understand English. It would be better if the > language chooser was always presented first, and not as a choice from > the main menu; then the main menu can be presented in the user's > language. It will. > I think this even makes sense from a purely aesthetic point of > view. As a boot-floppies user, I felt like a world citizen when I was > presented with a list of choices in a dozen different languages. It > speaks directly but subtly to the idea that here is an operating > system that tries to cross all national boundaries and be globally > useful. d-i will do the same. :) /Martin -- Martin Sj�gren [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +46 (0)31 7490880 Cell: +46 (0)739 169191 GPG key: http://www.strakt.com/~martin/gpg.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
