On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 15:19 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > 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.
Yeah, I don't plan on prompting the user for their language again, the prompt would be to give a chance for low-memory users to opt-out of the additional memory usage. As in my experience, it's really easy to trigger out-of-memory kills in the live environment by installing just a few megs of packages. > > 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... > -- Stéphane Graber Ubuntu developer http://www.ubuntu.com
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