Hacking Ubiquity

[mariodebian]

Hi all.

I'm working on a Ubuntu derivate called MaX (for Madrid Educational
Goverment, Spain)


I need to change some behaviours of ubiquity:

1.- Not show Language, Keyboard and TimeZone.

(this is done preseeding some setings and comenting some code in
gtk_ui.py)

2.- Append another step called stepInstallType after stepWelcome which
contains some radio buttons so select instalation method (for pupils,
teachers, servers...)

3.- Hide User step (using preseed like 1.-)

I have some problems.

My stepInstallType is only a glade file, and I connect radio onchange
event to gtk_ui method, but I can save this data into debconf because is
locked by another process.

I suppose that error is to leave consoleSetup hidden blocking debconf.
If I delete consoleSetup step from self.steps my step is not show and
installer go to partman.

Is there any way to force show a step (self.stay_on_page)?

To not touch Ubuntu packages I build ubiquity-frontend-max with some
files using dpsyco to overwrite Ubuntu ones:

TRAC with SVN:
http://max.educa.madrid.org:8000/browser/trunk/ubiquity-frontend-max

Preseed file:
http://max.educa.madrid.org:8000/browser/trunk/max-genlive/usr/share/max-genlive/preseed/max.seed

ubiquity/max_install_type is result of my radio selection (or is where I
want to save it)

NOTE: Trying to explain me better, I have said that edit gtk_ui.py, this
is not true, I have copied to max_ui.py and added frontend
in /usr/bin/ubiquity*

DSC file:
http://max.educa.madrid.org/max40/pool/main/u/ubiquity-frontend-max/ubiquity-frontend-max_4.0.max0.4.dsc


Thanks for your help


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