Ubuntu CD: language selection as first boot menu

[David Jaša]

My cousin told me recently that she'd try Linux but she knew nobody, who could show it to her, so I passed her Feisty CD. She replied "You have already gived me this [Dapper CD at that time] and it's all in English!" and I realized, that today language selection is hidden for everybody, who does not understand English. (In other words, you have to know at least a bit of English to be able to switch a CD to your language.)

I can imagine one solution: if possible make language selection a first menu in gfxboot with English selected by default. After you choose a language (or timeout chooses English for you), you should be in localized main boot menu. This would make Ubuntu accessible by people, who don't understand even a word in English and shoud not harm those, who understand well or E. is their maternal language.

[Pascal De Vuyst (pascal-devuyst)]

This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at [WWW] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in casper.

[Jean Christophe André (progfou)]

It's an interesting idea...

We may simply spread the word (along with the CD) to first press F2 to select the language at boot, or... we may totaly change the first image displayed at boot!

Something like: every available languages displayed in the first frame in their own writing (like if we had press F2 straight at boot) then using cursor keys (or any other way) to choose one of them.

In this case, this bug would probably better be attached to gfxboot.