Flight 4 Live-CD usage report

[Colin Watson]

On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 10:58:16AM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Matt Zimmerman 

> | > >The graphical boot menu lets you adjust these.
> | > 
> | > Where? I could select language, VGA mode and accessibility options, but 
> | > I did not find a way to change keymap and timezone (via menu; I don't 
> | > know about kernel options).
> |
> | Tollef?
> 
> Timezone can be changed when you are logged into gnome.  Keymap is
> under F5 (more options), then F5 again.  It is set based on the
> language you select, so it shouldn't be needed in most cases.

I'm beginning to feel that this may not be quite the right approach.
Some keymaps are radically different from the default keymap for their
associated language (French Canadian comes to mind) and we may be
disadvantaging users of those keymaps by automatically switching to the
default keymap for the language. I'm not sure about that. Sorting out
the French keymap in gfxboot to be less badly broken may help.

However, my feeling from this thread is that we should at least make the
keymap option in gfxboot-theme-ubuntu more visible, so I've shuffled it
to look like this:

  F1 Help  F2 Language  F3 Keymap  F4 VGA  F5 Accessibility  F6 Other Options

... and F6 takes you to:

  F1 Help  F2 Language  F3 Keymap  F4 VGA  F5 Accessibility  F6 Normal mode

We are beginning to run out of horizontal space, but we haven't quite
hit the wall yet.

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson at ubuntu.com]