Ubiquity uses default-locale in partitioning-gui

[Bernard Decock]

Binary package hint: ubiquity

When one follows the normal installation-path (boot from disc, install ubuntu) and one tries to specify another partition-layout, eg. specifying a /home-partition, one has to enter the size of the partitions wanted. However, ubiquity can't have any knowledge of the keyboard-layout as this question is asked AFTER the partitioning! So entering a number can go wrong.

If one uses an AZERTY-layout, one has to enter the numbers by means of the shift-key. As the locale has not been properly set up, one has to enter the numbers without using the shift-key. This is of course a very minor issue. In order to solve this problem in the future I suggest that setting the size of the partition can be done by means of sliders. (I'm aware that specifying the partition-layout first can reduce installation-time as the installer can start loading files as soon as the partition-scheme has been determined)

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: ubiquity 2.4.8
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.33-generic 2.6.35.4
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Fri Oct 15 15:56:21 2010
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=nl_NL.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubiquity