(another) Sounder 8 install report

[John]

Daniel Stone wrote:

>On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 06:57:14PM -0700, Daniel Stone wrote:
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>>I am aware of the nuances of the spelling, but the Ubuntu installer
>>infers your keyboard layout from the locale you choose, so choosing a
>>British locale when you're an Australian with a British keyboard is
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>                                                  ^^^^^^^
>						  US-layout
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It is good to infer the keyboad layout from the chosen language, but 
adopting that choice without user's confirmation is unexpected behaviour 
and will cause confusion.

I just rebooted S7 to have a look. It's true enough the first screen 
says that the language choice affects the kbd layout, but by the time I 
got to choose the dialect of English, that's no longer mentioned.

I think forcing this connexion is mistaken; I can imagine for a variety 
of reasons someone might want to install in, say Spanish, evn though the 
actual kbd is Qwerty/US.

What about Dvorak users? I'm not one, but I have seen them complain 
about this sort of thing before,