Rahul Sundaram escribió:
Preventing a cluttered menu can be a pretty good reason.
Well there are pretty much zero reasons why you would want to launch
applications like bug buddy on their own. They are helper apps.
Similarly the normal workflow is to click on a pdf file which evince
would open up and not launch evince and try to locate the file (ie)
document centric instead of application centric. The success of the
model is clear in the fact that you didn't even realize that some apps
were hidden till now.
Indeed. Have into account that I'm conducting this "little experiment"
with some friends and relatives who have never used Linux in any way or
form, and some of them have never even heard of it or any distribution
before. Indeed it is interesting to see these model differences in "the
wild". I now have something very interesting to say about why it is this
way, along the lines of "It's all about your *documents*, NOT the
application" or something to such effect. Thanks for the clarification.
Not sure what exactly you are referring to here but you should
probably file a enhancement in bugzilla. Otherwise most of the
feedback would just get lost
Ok, in a nutshell: When a user selects his/her native language in the
Language dialog in GDM, that should also have the effect of "somehow"
(that's what I'm not too sure would be feasible) also select the
appropriate keyboard layout for that language. For instance, in this
case, the language would be Spanish-Mexico, and they keyboard layout
would be Latinamerican, however upon selecting the language in GDM, the
keyboard layout in the session remains US English (which is
substantially different!). I was actually kind of expecting this to be
subject to objections from those users I handed the LiveCDs to, and to
minimize that I handed also detailed instructions on how to change that.
The feedback I got was that the instructions were very much appreciated,
and "Why is that the appropriate layout is not selected upon language
selection?" question. Thanks for the pointer, I'll open an RFE in
Bugzilla as soon as I can.
These recent efforts had made me want to try to play around with the
LiveCD tools to create a "respin" with localized OOo, of course I
know why it was left out of the LiveCDs (it simply takes too much
disk space, and having all locales amounts almost to an entire 700Mb
CD), I wonder how much it would take with only one extra locale (as I
understand US English is "hardcoded"). At any rate, this is no topic
for marketing, but rather for the LiveCD or Desktop lists. Thanks
again for your input.
You can squeeze in OOo with just one locale. I have created a number
of spins like that. Feel free to reuse them to create your own custom
spin with any locale you want.
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-assamese.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-bengali.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-gujarati.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-hindi.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-kannada.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-malayalam.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-marathi.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-oriya.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-punjabi.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-tamil.ks
http://sundaram.fedorapeople.org/livecd-fedora-8-desktop-telugu.ks
Interesting, I'll have a look to those kickstart files and use as a base
for one for Spanish_MX (or rather Spanish_ES, considered the
international implementation of the language, so even more people could
benefit... Darn, too much to do, and so little time!). Thanks again for
your suggestions and input.
Rahul
Gian
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