On Sunday 15 November 2009, Frans Pop wrote: > Perhaps we could further improve localechooser in that respect by > reusing the shortlist questions to ask what country they'd prefer for > localization if they selected "other" the first time around. That could > be a relatively cheap solution.
I've implemented this at the cost of (only?) 58 lines of code (including blank lines) and 1 template [1] in localechooser. After selecting Français, Autre, Europe, Pays-Bas I now get a new dialog allowing to select a "preferred locale": http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/choose-mirror/preferred-locale_fr.png Or for English (shows support for UTF-8 locales that don't have a .UTF-8 extention): http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/choose-mirror/preferred-locale_en.png I've only lightly tested it, but the implementation is fairly straightforward and should also work fine with preseeding [2]. I'm wondering if the last dialog that (at medium/low priority) allows to select a default locale from default/preferred locale plus selected additional locales should now be either dropped completely or only asked at low priority (and no longer at medium). Against that is that a Dutch user might want to use nl_NL.UTF-8 even if his default language is en. I just don't know if that's valid. I've uploaded yet another new version of my test image that includes this change: http://people.debian.org/~fjp/tmp/d-i/choose-mirror/. Cheers, FJP [1] Only the description needs translating; the rest is taken from existing templates. [2] If the locale is preseeded, it just gets skipped. This change is on to of my pending preseeding changes; with those users can preseed any desired supported locale. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
