GDM Language list...

Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel ankit at redhat.com
Fri Jun 5 15:27:29 UTC 2009


Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le Ven 5 juin 2009 17:03, Ray Strode a écrit :
>   
>> We only show a language in the language list if
>> 1) It's got at least one translation in /usr/share/locale
>> 2) it's recognized by libc as a valid utf8 locale
>> 3) it's listed in iso-codes
>> 4) it's got enough font converage to at least show it's own name in
>> the language list.
>>     
>
> Please, the main use of the language list is to select a keyboard
> layout. All the keyboard defs are installed by default. Punting a user
> to qwerty just because those other bits are missing is not going to
> make anyone happy.
>
> Especially if the user password can not be typed using qwerty.
>   

Please, it's not only locale, libc, iso-codes, fonts or input-methods, 
but also translated applications like openoffice, firefox, etc.

-- 
Regards,
Ankit Patel
http://www.indianoss.org/

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