On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Raffael Reichelt <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/6/19 Peter Robinson <[email protected]>: >>> 2010/6/19 Peter Robinson <[email protected]>: >>>> On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 8:01 AM, Raffael Reichelt >>>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Talking with parents and teachers about soas I realized it is >>>>> mandatory to provide localized builds of soas in order to make it >>>>> attractive for them to give it to their children. This localized >>>>> builds should be easily available for download for example on >>>>> localized pages. I am glad to volunteer for the german part. Can >>>>> someone explain me how to setup this page and where to place the >>>>> localized build for download? >>>> >>>> All the requirements to run a localized build are already present in >>>> SoaS, there just needs to be an option to actually select the >>>> language/keyboard on firstboot. Maybe its an option to provide when >>>> you select the colour/name. I know there's been discussion on adding >>>> an option to select a keyboard, adding the option to that to select >>>> language and even timezone shouldn't be too hard. >>> >>> I know - but supporting non-it-persons with their computers I do know >>> too it is much too difficult for them. Most of te parents I know are >>> happy if the computer and the internet connection is working. Even >>> they are interested in providing a learning plattform to their >>> children they do not really know how to change something. In fact I >>> expect them to prefere the boot-helper/usbstick scenario. >> >> You've missed my point entirely. If they can't select from 3 drop down >> boxes their own language, keyboard layout and timezone there's a >> problem that separate images is not going to fix because they'll have >> problems working out how to make the image boot in the first place. A >> Windows or OSX setup expects you to be able to do this, even a new >> digital camera expects you to be able to select your language and >> timezone. >> >> Peter >> >> BTW Please reply from the bottom, it makes the replies easier to read >> in the context. > > This way? Sorry.
Perfect :-) > Now I guess I got you but as far as I can see there is no choice at > the moment - would it be possible to include? Include the option to select the keyboard/locale/timezone? I'd love to, there's been a lot of discussion about it over the time but i'm not sure there was ever a consensus as to the best way to do it. We have considered in the past using the Fedora firstboot util but it adds extra stuff we don't really need. Peter _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
