On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 16:51:55 -0400, Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:07 -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 12:55:31 -0400, > > Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Is this where I chime in with something about keymaps and locales again? > > > I'm thinking probably so... ;-) > > > > That is certainly a problem. But for some people running encryption through > > a block device that respects things such as write barriers, is going to be > > more attractive than some of the other solutions. > > As an English speaker, sure. What if you only speak Japanese? If we're > only solving the problem for those that speak English, then (and > apologies for shouting...) WE'RE NOT SOLVING THE PROBLEM. People use > Fedora world-wide and we need to actually have our features work within > that context. I would see a pause with some strange prompt and figure it is waiting for me to enter something and that it must be my password. I think waiting for a complete solution is not the way to proceed. There are several different steps involved with the solution. If some of the steps have workable solutions, getting them included in the distribution will help get them tested and allow other people to build upon the previous work. It might be hard to recruit people to do some of the things that will be eventually needed until there is some base functionallity for them to play with. You don't have to advertise full disk encryption for the masses as soon as there is some support for booting with an encrypted root partition. > > Heck, for key maps there probably aren't so many that you can't try multiple > > possibilities after getting the password. > > There are at least 30-40 that we allow in the installer alone at the > console. find -type f /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386 | wc -l gives around 140. > I don't think that trying either is really that practical. 40 probably isn't too many to make trying them all impractical. I expect that it will take less than a second to try each one even with measures to slow down password guessing. That's not nice for suspend resume, but wouldn't be a deal breaker for initial boots. > > > The password prompts being in the > > wrong locale, might look ugly, but should be servicable. > > Not for use within some countries... that's why translations are a big > deal > > > People using the > > grub menu have to deal with that now as far as I know. > > The goal is that you never _see_ the grub menu. Also, one of the things > that's being worked on with grub2 is the infrastructure to have some > support for i18n/l10n. We really shouldn't be adding new things that > don't take it into account. Especially if they're going to be highly > visible new features. We should be able to use some of the ideas that get used in grub2. They are going to have to solve essentially the same problem (fonts and keymaps without the bloat of X). Some people are going to want to see the grub menu, so eventually you are going to want to have some sort of localization solution there. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
