Hi, sajol...@pimienta.org wrote (06 Oct 2013 10:06:45 GMT) : > On 03/10/13 12:11, intrigeri wrote:
>> But also, I think the region setting is useful *in itself*, not just >> for timezone selection: it's used to select a default keyboard layout >> in the greeter, and it also determines various l10n and language >> behaviors. So I don't think we could get rid of this region setting. > By the way, in the current Greeter there are three settings: "language", > "locale", and "keyboard". If I choose "Français" as a "language", and > "Canada" as a "locale", then the "keyboard" is not configured > automatically as "Canada", and I still have to choose it by hand. > But the "locale" is surely used to differentiate between pt_PT and pt_BR > for example, and probably only for doing that. Well, no. The second setting really is a country code. It is used not only to select a more specific dialect (e.g. Spanish as spoken in Mexico), but also for various other stuff, like currencies, units, papersize, etc. So, I think we should rename this field in the greeter to "Region" or "Country". >>> Here is my logic for that: if there is a timezone stored in persistence, >>> then that should overwrite the country option in the Greeter >> >> Regardless of whether it's reasonable or not to deduce the region from >> the configured timezone (that's debatable, I guess), there is >> a problem with this: we only get to learn the persistent timezone >> setting *after* having enabled persistence in the greeter, so anyone >> who wants to benefit from the behavior you're suggesting would have to >> either select their preferred keyboard layout every time anyway, or >> type their passphrase with a US layout. Not too convincing a UX, >> is it? > Sorry my sentence was not clear and doesn't make sense now that I > realized that this widget was setting the locale I prefer, and not the > country where I am. Sorry if I'm getting you confused again: it *does* specify the region where you are, in broader sense than just fine-tuning the language being used. I'll let you digest this, rethink the whole thing and draw new hypothesis & proposals, if you wish :) > Some countries have several timezones, and people travel so that can > only be a best bet and we still need a way to configure it from the applet. Sure. > Those two scenarios will work and I am fine with them. I'm glad we've found an agreement. Unless my input above changes your mind :) > But that is not a big deal as long as you can fix the timezone > directly from the applet. Agreed. Cheers, -- intrigeri | GnuPG key @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/intrigeri.asc | OTR fingerprint @ https://gaffer.ptitcanardnoir.org/intrigeri/otr.asc _______________________________________________ tails-dev mailing list tails-dev@boum.org https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev
