Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems wrote: > Hi Frank, > > Regardless of what languages for desktop l10n and installer l10n are > available on live CD in May release, our plan is to include all UTF-8 > locales, 74 locales (43 languages with several variants such as > en_<territory>.UTF-8, es_<territory>.UTF-8) in the live CD. > > So, we want to make it possible for users to login with their preferable > locale during live boot from the beginning without letting users logout > and login again through gdm locale selection. BTW, if user re-login with > different locale selection, I guess your scenario may confuse users. > > A straightforward way for this issue is to disable the automatic login. > Then, users will be able to select a locale via gdm from the beginning > and the installer can simply rely on the current running locale for > the default language setting. If installer l10n is available for the > current locale, the installer UI will be localized. If not, it will be > fall back to English UI. (As Shinobu pointed out, English is not always > the second language for everyone. So, if installer has its own UI lang > selection, it would be more better.) > > If disabling the automatic login is not acceptable, is it possible > to make all UTF-8 locales available in language menu that you are > going to add? This is the question Takeshi asked. >
We're not really interested in disabling the auto-login, so whatever solutions are proposed should use that as a constraint. Dave
