Keyboard disposition selection during install under Natty

[Charlie Kravetz]

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On Fri, 28 Jan 2011 12:07:14 -0500
Alain-Olivier Breysse <yahoe.001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Keyboard disposition selection during install under Natty.
> 
> During the installation process of Natty, keyboard disposition selection
> comes after the partitioning step, possibly leaving the user with an
> unusable international keyboard.
> This is even more of a problem for regular user with no to little system's
> knowledge.fra
> Even after the location as been choosen (Montréal for me) and the install
> language being French, the default keyboard disposition selected is France
> which is plain wrong. If a user goes for automated portioning, doesn't pay
> attention to the wrong default keyboard disposition and then select password
> (blindly), this user will after installation be left with an usable system
> since he won't be able to log into the system as the password after reboot
> will be typed on a Canadian keyboard disposition, whenever the password has
> been set on a French keyboard disposition.
> 
> Of course this is valid for other languages as well and needs to be looked
> into.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Alain-Olivier Breysse
> Montréal.

There is a bug filed against Ubiquity related to this, 
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/664639 . 

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