Remarks about Hoary Preview

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 12:06:02PM +0100, Ricardo Pérez López wrote:

> 1. During the installation, when I've asked about the full name for the
> system user, I can't type accented vocals. My name is Ricardo Pérez
> López (you can see the accented 'é' and 'ó', which I can't type in the
> installation). The Debian's debian-installer does not have this bug.

There is a bug open in Bugzilla about this.

> 2. The installation creates too many locales for my system. I'm Spanish,
> and I would like to have only en_US and es_ES. But the system creates
> ALL the en_* locales and ALL es_* locales.

You can disable the ones you don't want, after installation.

> 3. In my system (Samtron Monitor CRT 17", nVidia graphics card), fonts
> looks much better with the "autohinter" enabled. I would like to have
> the "autohinter" enabled by default in the fontconfig configuration.

You can enable the autohinter in your local configuration; it would be
unwise to change the defaults at this late stage of the release.

> 4. Gstreamer is configured by default to use OSS instead of ALSA. Is
> this a bug, or a feature? :)

This is intentional.

> 5. Synaptic complains about not installed libgnome2-perl, necessary for
> the debconf forms during the packages configuration.

libgnome2-perl is installed per default with more recent installation CDs.

> 6. mplayer doesn't work at all. I have downloaded the source code from
> mplayerhq.hu, created the package and installed it, and now mplayer
> works perfectly. (Previously, I must to purge the mplayer-custom
> package).

You should install the mplayer-686, mplayer-k7, etc. package as appropriate
for your CPU, not mplayer-custom.

(mplayer-custom shouldn't even be there)

> 9. And finally, there are untranslated messages during the installation,
> and in the update-notifier. I would like to help about that. Can I use
> Rosetta to finish the translations?

I don't think it is possible to use Rosetta to translate the installer yet,
but you can ask on the rosetta mailing list or IRC channel.

-- 
 - mdz