Daniel Pocock, le Wed 17 Jul 2013 10:21:22 +0200, a écrit : > On 16/07/13 23:56, Cyril Brulebois wrote: > > Daniel Pocock (2013-07-16): > >> Actually, it's a little confusing - I just went back in the installer > >> and yes, I can choose that permutation and then I'm told "There is no > >> locale defined for the country of language and country" and then I can > >> manually get en_GB. So I can achieve the correct configuration. > >> > >> However, some users may simply choose GB as their country (I'm an > >> Australian but I choose GB because Australians use British English and I > >> personally spent a lot of time living there) - so while I don't see this > >> as a severe issue, I think it would be helpful to let the user choose a > >> country that they associate with rather than their exact location at the > >> moment of installation. Then the TZ question should let them deviate > >> further from the options for their country. > > No, no, no. You really really should *read* instead of *assuming* random > > things. > > > > Quoting the “Select your location” screen, first two sentences are: > > | The selected location will be used to set your time zone and also for > > | example to help select the system locale. Normally this should be the > > | country where you live. > > I agree it is not fundamentally broken and for people who know > Debian/Linux it is not hard to change later, but I still feel it is > rigid and it would not be hard to let people alter the timezone after > choosing a country > > To give another example, consider a British person setting up a PC in > their holiday home in France: "country where you live" does not help > them make the system work the way they want.
I do hope people can understand that "where you live" then means "where the PC will live". Let's not make things more complex for 99% people just because 1% people can't figure out this. People already say Debian has too many questions. Samuel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130717084744.gf5...@type.bordeaux.inria.fr
