Natty:Keyboard mapping selection comes to late during installation

[Evan Dandrea]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 8:51 AM, Alain-Olivier Breysse
> <yahoe.001 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> Keyboard mapping selection comes too late during installation. When one
>> wants to manually partition the drives on, for example, a French-Canadian
>> keyboard, the key mapping selection window hasn't been presented yet (will
>> be after the time zone selection) thus obliging the user to manually call
>> for that change which is not even possible if Ubiquity as been started
>> directly during the boot process without selecting the "Try Ubuntu" option.
>>
>> Is there any plans to change this?
>
> This late in the cycle, I doubt there are any pre-existing plans to
> change the order.  That said, changing the order should be pretty
> straightforward. Is there an open bug against which I could propose a
> patch?

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/ubiquity/+bug/656777

Changing the order of the pages is not possible here.  Keyboard
selection needs to come after timezone selection, as the combination
of the location and the language is used to form the suggestion for
the keyboard layout.

The plan has always been to provided a keyboard indicator to let the
user switch earlier in the process, but this has been deferred to O.

Do note that you can press a key during boot to break into the CD boot
menu.  Doing so will give you an option to set the keyboard and
continue with installation.