On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 09:30:12AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote: > Remove Branden from CC list and replace by debian-x....I think it's > important that the X Strike Force is informed of issues related to > installed X environment on fresh installs. > > (keyboard variant automagically set to "fi" on a fresh install in Finnish) > > > This has probably been done by the localization-config package which is > > s/probably/certainly > > So you were right in reassigning this bug, > Frans. The problem is now : is this a bug or a feature ? :-) > > > run as part of base-config. It's function is to preconfigure some > > packages (selected settings) based on the language/country the user > > selected. > > > > However, it should of course never set values leading to a broken > > configuration. > > > Well, the problem here is determining if the configuration *is* broken > or not. > > On of localization-config (maintained by Konstantinos Margaritis) > goals is trying to give a solution to a very common problem with fresh > installs in localized environments: > > As soon as the user has a non US keyboard, (s)he configured it > properly in the kbd-chooser part of d-i, but afterwards, when > installing X (often through the "desktop" task of tasksel), the > keyboard still used a "us" layout. > > This was mostly due to the kbd layout question being medium priority > in X packages, so it was skipped during the install. > > We (d-i team) had tons of reports with users not understanding why > they has a US layout in X while they did choose another layout during > the install. > > localization-config tries to circumvent this by installing "safe" > defaults based on the localisation environment. So, in Tapio's case, > as the install was probably done in Finnish, the X keyboard layout was > set to "fi". > > Konstantinos explicitely asked (in -i18n, IIRC) for input about the > best mapping, so I guess that using "fi" when the language is Finnish > was suggested to him by a Finnish contributor.
Well, i think the main problem would be : 1) to higher the priority of keymap question in X, and 2) make localization-config only provide the default, but not mark the question as seen or something. Friendly, Sven Luther