On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Raffael Reichelt <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/6/19 Peter Robinson <[email protected]>: >> 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 >> > > May I then ask to open up again this discussion? Just to try it for > myself: how can I include the firstboot util in the Kickstart files? > Just add firstboot to the packages list?
I was looking into using firstboot one or two release cycles ago. However, it turned out that the language selection ability had been removed from it in more recent versions (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=507436). I know that Walter had been working on implementing something like this on the screen where you enter your name when you log into Sugar for the first time. There's still a feature page out there for this (http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/Features/Feature_intro_language_keyboard_options). --Sebastian > Raffael > _______________________________________________ > SoaS mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas > _______________________________________________ SoaS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/soas
