Bug 464858 - Inefficiencies in language selection, especially as used on live images
Summary: Inefficiencies in language selection, especially as used on live images
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Status: ASSIGNED
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: gdm
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Ray Strode [halfline]
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On: 461627 460711 464825 465553
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-09-30 21:08 UTC by Lauri Nurmi
Modified: 2015-01-14 23:27 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Lauri Nurmi 2008-09-30 21:08:55 UTC
Description of problem:
I would like to recommend the Fedora LiveCD to friends and other people who want to try using Linux without hard disk installation.  I cannot do this because of mainly two things: 1) the complexity of selecting language, and 2) the complexity of selecting keyboard layout.

This is meant to be a tracker bug for all the things that make people desperate enough to recommend and use Ubuntu LiveCD instead of Fedora.

Comment 1 David Zeuthen 2008-09-30 21:59:20 UTC
You are going to need to explain how you expect people to select language / keyboard in a way that is still accessible even you have a disability (because that's the main reason we do it from gdm and not from the bootloader like most other live CD's).

Comment 2 David Zeuthen 2008-09-30 22:06:11 UTC
(Btw, sorry if comment 1 came across as a knee-jerk reaction. This is of course me assuming you want to do keyboard/language selection in the bootloader. That assumption may not be true, who knows, it could be gdm is broken, I haven't actually checked.)

Comment 3 Lauri Nurmi 2008-09-30 22:24:55 UTC
David, since this is a tracker bug, please take a look at the bugs that this one tracks.

Comment 4 Jeremy Katz 2008-10-03 19:35:05 UTC
Reassigning this to gdm and adjusting the summary a bit -- we're not going to change _away_ from using gdm for this sort of things on the live image.

Comment 5 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-21 15:29:28 UTC
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Comment 11 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-21 15:49:31 UTC
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Comment 12 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-21 15:51:45 UTC
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Comment 13 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2011-06-21 15:52:57 UTC
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