On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 02:00:50PM -0400, Stéphane Graber wrote: > > Is there any reason that they have to be in the squashfs image to get that > > effect? I know that's how it's architected today, but would it actually be > > a better experience to have a much smaller squashfs that needs to be > > unpacked, to which the correct language pack is applied on-the-fly as soon > > as we know what language the user has selected?
> > Is this worth exploring? > It's actually how I planned to fix it for Edubuntu :) Oh, well cool ;) > The idea was to check if the user chose something else than English and > if so prompt them in Xsession (while we can still change $LANG). > They'd then have the choice to either install the langpack and get a > translated live session (if they have enough RAM for that) or continue > in English and only have ubiquity translated. I wouldn't like this to result in any additional prompts; we should be able to auto-install these for the user based on their language selection in either the bootloader (in which case casper can do the setup), or in ubiquity-dm. > In all cases, ubiquity would grab the langpacks from the pool and > install them. I would presume that by the time ubiquity enters the picture, the packages are already installed in the live environment, so it just needs to not /remove/ them... -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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