Wrong keyboard selection with starting directly ubiquity
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubiquity (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Evan | ||
Natty |
Won't Fix
|
High
|
Evan | ||
Oneiric |
Fix Released
|
High
|
Evan |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: ubiquity
From a box connected or disconnected from the Internet:
1. start the live without using the syslinux menu (so, wait for booting in the ubiquity installer)
2. Select French
3. get to next steps…
4. if you try to either define manually partition or set the town/country your are in, you will see that your keyboard is in qwerty (most of people speaking French have an azerty keyboard, especially as the default town when choosing French with no network is "Paris".
5. then, the good keyboard is proposed as a default on the next step and all is well configured.
-> having a qwerty keyboard can be confusing when making a custom partition, or trying to set a town/country in the map.
-> Not that, if you choose "try ubuntu" from ubiquity after selecting French, you are leaded to a live session with an azerty keyboard, at least, this only affects the "partition manually" and "choose you city" in ubiquity.
This doesn't happen if you use the syslinux menu. (which means, pressing a key at the very start, then choosing French) -> the right keyboard is selected.
tags: | added: iso-testing |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu): | |
milestone: | later → ubuntu-11.04-beta-2 |
assignee: | nobody → Canonical Foundations Team (canonical-foundations) |
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu Natty): | |
status: | Confirmed → Won't Fix |
milestone: | later → none |
This is a consequence of us moving partitioning before keyboard selection. The timezone page already appeared before the keyboard page in previous releases, but typing to find a city was not the secondary means of interaction then, as it is now.
This use case was meant to be handled by a keyboard layout indicator, but that work was deferred to Natty.
Unfortunately, we cannot move keyboard selection any further forward as it depends on the timezone being set so that it may guess the correct layout based on location and language.