[Bug 664639] Re: Xubuntu installer keyboard selection error

[Brian Murray]

** Tags added: ubiquity-2.4.8

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Title:
  Xubuntu installer keyboard selection error

Status in “ubiquity” package in Ubuntu:
  Triaged

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: ubiquity

  Xubuntu 10.10 installer on live cd.

  I use English but my laptop was purchased in latin america so it has a
  Spanish keyboard.

  The problem was that in the installer the first option was to select
  English but the option to select the keyboard configuration happens
  AFTER the partitioning phase. Because I choose to manually partition
  my drive on each clean install, choosing English gave me a standard US
  keyboard. But entering mount points requires a backslash and it is not
  the same key for a Spanish keyboard.

  Obviously this only affects those in a rare set of circumstances but
  it is still a design bug nevertheless. The keyboard selection needs to
  be done at the start of the installation process along with the
  language selection.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
  Package: ubiquity (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-22.35-generic 2.6.35.4
  Uname: Linux 2.6.35-22-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Thu Oct 21 12:51:50 2010
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101008.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   LANG=en_US.utf8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: ubiquity

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