On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Bill Peck bpeck@redhat.com wrote:
On 05/04/2013 06:22 PM, Dan Mashal wrote:
On Sat, May 4, 2013 at 2:37 AM, Michael Scherer misc@zarb.org wrote:
I can add to that that I have seen more than once people setting a password which was not the one they believed due to :
- keyboard layout ( ie, qwerty vs azerty in France )
- small usage difference with Windows way, again on azerty keyboard
( people using capslock on french keyboard to type numbers while they should use shift, as capslock just type capital letter like À or É and not 0 or 2, and if you do not understand, just look on the web to compare how different it is from qwerty-based keyboard )
The installer should detect the keyboard automatically. In fact you can even tell it what type of keyboard you have on the first screen.
On the screen where you can pick your keyboard, do we have a test area where the user can verify the keyboard layout? Or maybe if you select a different keyboard it should automatically pop up a verify keyboard screen?
No matter how smart the kernel or anaconda, this can be nightmarish when funneled through a virtualization console. The remapping between the user's operating system, through the VMware or VNC or other virtualization console access toolkit, can create..... some very odd remappings.