(another) Sounder 8 install report

[Daniel Stone]

On Fri, Sep 10, 2004 at 10:36:49AM +0800, John wrote:
> It is good to infer the keyboad layout from the chosen language, but 
> adopting that choice without user's confirmation is unexpected behaviour 
> and will cause confusion.
> 
> I just rebooted S7 to have a look. It's true enough the first screen 
> says that the language choice affects the kbd layout, but by the time I 
> got to choose the dialect of English, that's no longer mentioned.

All the more reason to actually heed the warnings that come up on
screen, no?

> I think forcing this connexion is mistaken; I can imagine for a variety 
> of reasons someone might want to install in, say Spanish, evn though the 
> actual kbd is Qwerty/US.

Yes, but I don't think we can provide for these sort of corner cases.  If
people are doing things like that that are so far out of the norm, then
they can customise their system later; getting the system up with as few
questions as possible is nice.

> What about Dvorak users? I'm not one, but I have seen them complain 
> about this sort of thing before,

If you're a Dvorak user who cannot deal with qwerty, you have bigger
problems than the Ubuntu installer.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel at fooishbar.org>
"The programs are documented fully by _The Rise and Fall of a Fooish Bar_,
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