On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 8:10 AM, Alain-Olivier Breysse <yahoe....@gmail.com> wrote: > Bonjour, > > Keyboard mapping selection comes too late during installation. When one > wants to manually partition the drives on, for example, a French-Canadian > keyboard, the key mapping selection window hasn't been presented yet (it > will be after the time zone selection) thus obliging the user to manually > call for that change which is not even possible if Ubiquity as been started > directly during the boot process without selecting the "Try Ubuntu" option. > > > This is not a bug but a choice made by the developper that needs to be > adresssed and corrected since it affects all international users.
Do you mean this happens when you select the French language (for instance), as soon as the CD starts, once you've first pressed a key to get to the menu? I find it's often easier to install a system with the French-Canadian settings if you first boot with everything in English (e.g. keep english as the language at the boot menu, select Install Ubuntu), then select French for the language once you're presented with Ubiquity's language selection / welcome dialog. What this effectively does is keep you in English until the language is changed in Ubiquity, but also leaves the system with a qwerty keyboard layout (e.g. US English) rather than azerty, as I guess is the precise issue you're referring to. The side effect is that you won't be able to type accents very easily. Otherwise, at the boot menu, select French for the language, and press F3 (IIRC) to get to the keyboard selection list. You should be able to select another layout from there. I don't think it's feasible to please everyone in this case: for the French language (as it is the case here), people from France will most likely want the French azerty layout; people from Canada will want one of the French Canadian qwerty layouts or US/Intl; and people from other french-speaking nations are likely to have different requirements as well. Whatever default layout is choosen is bound to make people unhappy ;) Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre <mathieu...@ubuntu.com> Freenode: cyphermox, Jabber: mathieu...@gmail.com 4096R/EE018C93 1967 8F7D 03A1 8F38 732E FF82 C126 33E1 EE01 8C93 -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
