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[wishlist] keyboard layout suggestion based on timezone

Bug #398519 reported by Svish on 2009-07-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #355563: Region and Dvorak keyboard layout do not match during install. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	ubiquity (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Installing the desktop version of Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit (iso downloaded 2009-07-11). I noticed that the suggested keyboard layout in Step 3, USA, is not a very bright one. Cause in step two I selected Europe / Oslo as timezone. Based on that, wouldn't a much more reasonable suggestion for keyboard layout be Norway?

Of course not a very big deal, but I believe small things like this matter. It would give me the impression that Ubuntu knows me. While now I instead get the impression that Ubuntu is slow and dumb, since I kind of have to tell it twice where I live.

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Svish (torleif) on 2009-07-12

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Jamal Fanaian (jamalta) wrote on 2009-07-12:

Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but it would make more sense to raise problems you are having in the support tracker at https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu if you are uncertain if they are bugs. For help on reporting bugs, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs .

Changed in ubuntu:
status:	New → Invalid

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Svish (torleif) wrote on 2009-07-12:

It was not a problem I had. It was something Ubuntu did poorly, so I thought I would report the issue so that Ubuntu could do it better.

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Steve (stupendoussteve-deactivatedaccount) wrote on 2009-07-12:

This is indeed the correct place for a suggestion. It should be marked as Wishlist.

affects:	ubuntu → ubiquity (Ubuntu)
Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
status:	Invalid → Confirmed

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Jamal Fanaian (jamalta) wrote on 2009-07-12:

Since what you submitted is not really a bug, or a problem, but rather an idea to improve Ubuntu, you are invited to post your idea in Ubuntu Brainstorm at http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ where it can be discussed, voted by the community and reviewed by developers. Thanks for taking the time to share your opinion!

Steve (stupendoussteve-deactivatedaccount) on 2009-07-12

summary:

- bad suggestions for keyboard on 9.04 install
+ [wishlist] keyboard layout suggestion based on timezone

Andres Mujica (andres.mujica) on 2009-07-12

Changed in ubiquity (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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David Balažic (xerces8) wrote on 2009-07-14:

1.) bug #389610 appears to be a duplicate

2.) "mee to"
During installation ( http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/releases/karmic/alpha-2/karmic-desktop-i386.iso ) on the "Where are you?" screen I selected Europ/Ljubljana (that is in Slovenia). On the next screen , the suggested option was "USA"

I mean, what other data besides the location choice in step 3 has it to decide on what to suggest ? Does that option always suggest "USA" ?
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phenest (steve-clark) wrote on 2009-07-25:

Karmic alpha 3

Jamal: This is a bug as making a suggestion that is incorrect needs fixing.

I was given the suggestion of USA Dvorak for a UK region with the Dvorak layout. If it included the region in its equation, the suggestion would have been accurate.

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phenest (steve-clark) wrote on 2009-08-10:

This only appears to happen if I select a keyboard map from the Live CD boot screen. If I don't select any, then the suggested keyboard layout is United Kingdom which does match the region I chose.