On Sat, 2017-11-18 at 13:50 +0000, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Nov 18, 2017 at 01:15:22AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: [...] > > Among the ones I mentioned, > > > > - language/country/keyboard: we can't afford to omit them. > > If you _really_ want to do this (and I don't think it's possible) then > you can have a super easy - "Oh, you're in the UK, so you want UK > timezone, British keyboard" where you click on a map and highlight UK > and click OK / hit Enter > > This is very similar to the first run of something like MacOS > but - it doesn't cater for minority languages, where you might want to > set your machines to a fixed timezone without daylight saving time ... [...]
Implementing locale selection using a map also runs the risk of getting your software banned in countries that disagree with where you put the borders. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Teamwork is essential - it allows you to blame someone else.
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