On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 19:46 +0100, Julian Aloofi wrote: > Am Samstag, den 05.03.2011, 10:29 +0200 schrieb Ville-Pekka Vainio: > > pe, 2011-03-04 kello 18:25 -0500, Matthias Clasen kirjoitti: > > > The session will start in English, and > > > users who need a different language will have to select the language in > > > System Settings > Region and re-login. > > > > This will make things very difficult for users who don't know English > > well. With the previous version of GDM, we could at least explain the > > language selection with one screenshot, because the login screen was so > > simple. > > > > If GDM won't support language selection any more, then we should come up > > with another simple way for choosing the language before login. Maybe in > > the GRUB screen, like Ubuntu apparently does it? > > > > -- > > Ville-Pekka Vainio > > > > The language selection in the ISOLINUX screen sounds like a good > solution. It's what openSUSE and Ubuntu are doing as well and therefore > shouldn't be too hard to implement. > It would also have the huge advantage to solve this problem for the > other desktops as well, who have not yet found a way of dealing with > this it seems (KDE, XFCE and LXDE all autologin you to an english > desktop). > > CCing the spins list as this might be an interesting thread for them. Language selection before GDM is a good idea, but it should be done in an X interface, so we can use translations, multiple windows, etc. Rather than a straight list of languages written in a script that the users might not know, with fonts that would leave to be desired. To put it another way, it should be firstboot with only one question. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
