Hi Frank, Can I understand that the language menu become available before the desktop starts will show not only languages with translations but also those without translations, like gdm's one does?
The initial language menu used in Solaris miniroot was mainly for installer but the one currently being considered is for live session desktop. Thanks, Takeshi Frank Ludolph wrote: > It appears that we will be able to include more than just English in the > first release, but not all of the (39?) languages that GNOME has been > localized for, at least not yet. The current target for this release is > to include, at most, the eleven languages that the installer will be > localized for. This means that we need only as one language question > during startup, the installer will run in that language, and that > language will be the primary language for the installed system. > > I will add a text-based language screen to the mockup immediately > following the keyboard question. It will essentially be the same as for > past installers, very similar in structure to the keyboard question. > > Ideally the default language should be based on the selected keyboard > when the default is obvious, i.e., if the keyboard is Korean, then the > default language would be Korean. If the selected keyboard indicates a > unsupported language then English is probably the best language default. > > Looking past this release, I would really like to see us use a version > of GRUB that allows the user to set the language and keyboard through > F-key options on the GRUB screen and remove the startup text messages we > are using this release. > > If/when the LiveCD can hold more languages than the installer has been > localized for, the installer will need to add a new Welcome screen that > allows the user to select the desired language for installation - the > installer should be able to switch languages w/o restarting. The desktop > language would be the default language for the installed system. Note > that is very easy for a user to change his/her default language at login > should the default set by the installer not be the one desired by the user. > > Frank > _______________________________________________ > caiman-discuss mailing list > caiman-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/caiman-discuss
