Dave Miner wrote:
> One question, and one addition:
>
>> 1. Remove Installer language window. Installer will run in LiveCD 
>> system language.
>
> How are you expecting that the system language will be set?  The live 
> CD prompts for a keyboard layout while it's still in text mode since 
> we can't change it during the X session, but otherwise nothing will 
> prompt for the language, and I don't see a desktop application which 
> would let me do it, either.
On a LiveCD the installer is just another app, and as such runs in the 
same language as the desktop.This implies that the language question 
should be asked during startup, perhaps just before the keyboard 
question. Sanjay has said that due to space constraints there will only 
be one language on a CD (meaning there will have to be 10 different 
CDs). In this case it wouldn't be necessary to ask the language 
question, but it may also have implications on the installer - what if 
I'm using the English CD and want German language support? It could be 
downloaded from the repository during the install, but if it can't and 
must be manually downloaded after reboot, should we even be asking the 
question?

Ubuntu uses a newer version of GRUB that has language and keyboard 
F-keys that control both the language displayed by GRUB and the language 
used on the desktop, but this passes quickly and the user might miss it, 
so they also include the installer language question as part of their 
installer.
>
> The addition needed is a desktop icon for the installer.
Yes. It was on my mental list, but should be added...

Frank
>
> Dave


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