Re: [Fedora-livecd-list] Suggestion: Submenu in isolinux for locales

[Sebastian Vahl]

Am Di 10.April 2007 schrieb Jeremy Katz:
>  On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 22:25 +0200, Sebastian Vahl wrote:
>  > Don't know if this is possible with isolinux: It would be much easier
>  > for non-english users if they could choose their language at the
>  > bootmenu. I know that they could attach eg. "live_locale=de_DE.UTF-8".
>  > But a menu or submenu for non-experienced users would be the best, I
>  > think.
>
>  The problem is that doing this in the bootloader is really not at all
>  ideal.  You don't have any ability to have a11y and bootloaders suck to
>  hack on.
>
>  This is why the GNOME live CD goes to gdm instead of just doing
>  automatic login now.  With the facebrowser, you can select the user and
>  you can also select the language pretty easily 
That works for gdm. But sadly kdm do not have such an option.
I think I must rethink this.


Sebastian