Debian Bug report logs - #251422
Please add i18n to the welcome screen

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Margarita Manterola <marga@marga.com.ar>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Some d-i wishes

Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 17:54:48 -0300

Package: installation-reports
Severity: wishlist

I should probably file one for each of this, sorry if this is a bother
to you.

* It would be great to have the initial help translated.  We are having
everything translated but for the initial screens.  Is it terribly hard?
I guess it is, but yet, it would be really good to have it translated.

* When selecting the keyboard, sometimes the user does not know how to
recognize his/her keyboard.  For example, in Argentina we have 2
official keyboards, the Spanish and the LatinAmerican, most users
can't tell them apart although they are substatially different.  It
would be great to have a "help" screen for the keyboard layouts that
states things like "this keyboard has a ñ next to the l, and the @ in
the Q key".

* The option for "no frame buffer" is like awfully long.  Is it too
difficult to have a nofb option that translates into the whole string?

* After installing a Sarge CD, the debian_version file in /etc says
testing/unstable, although it's only testing.  I know this has been
always like that, but does it make sense?  I think it should say
"Sarge".

Thanks for all the job you've done up to now.

--
Love,
Margarita Manterola.

Message #10 received at 251299@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>

To: Margarita Manterola <marga@marga.com.ar>, 251299@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#251299: Some d-i wishes

Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 08:44:03 -0300

clone 251299 -1 -2 -3
reassign -1 debian-installer
severity -1 wishlist
retitle -1 Please add i18n to the welcome screen
reassign -2 kbd-config
severity -2 wishlist
retitle -2 Give users some hints about possible keyboards
reassign -3 debian-installer
severity -3 wishlist
retitle -3 Please use a short alias for the "noframebuffer" option at boot
thanks

Quoting Margarita Manterola (marga@marga.com.ar):
> Package: installation-reports
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> I should probably file one for each of this, sorry if this is a bother
> to you.
> 
> * It would be great to have the initial help translated.  We are having
> everything translated but for the initial screens.  Is it terribly hard?
> I guess it is, but yet, it would be really good to have it translated.

Yep, it's probably very hard as this is a chicken-and-egg problem, I'm
afraid-->how to ask about the language before booting...and in which
language ? :-)

I leave this opened anyway : maybe someone will have some miracle idea.

> 
> * When selecting the keyboard, sometimes the user does not know how to
> recognize his/her keyboard.  For example, in Argentina we have 2
> official keyboards, the Spanish and the LatinAmerican, most users
> can't tell them apart although they are substatially different.  It
> would be great to have a "help" screen for the keyboard layouts that
> states things like "this keyboard has a ñ next to the l, and the @ in
> the Q key".

So, kbd-config should be given a kind of "help" button or any other
possibility for having a Hint about the selected keyboard. 

/me wishes we had Alastair here in Brazil...

> 
> * The option for "no frame buffer" is like awfully long.  Is it too
> difficult to have a nofb option that translates into the whole string?

Yep. Options should be as short as possible as typing them especially
with a non-US keyboard is a PITA. Moreover, "nofb" has no A, Q and M
so this will help the frenchies...:-)

> * After installing a Sarge CD, the debian_version file in /etc says
> testing/unstable, although it's only testing.  I know this has been
> always like that, but does it make sense?  I think it should say
> "Sarge".


Hmmm. As APT entries points to aliases such as
stable/testing/unstable, it makes sense to keep this as is and not use
release codenames, IMHO.

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