[haiku] Re: geo-location (was: Migration from Basho to Official Localization of Haiku)
- From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:35:33 +0100
Urias McCullough <umccullough@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Axel Dörfler <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> > Why would that be wrong or overengineering?
> > The worst that could happen is that it guesses wrong - how could
> > that
> > be worse to always be wrong? :-)
> > It has to start from somewhere, and when that somewhere is right in
> > about 95% it would be very convenient for most users.
> IMO, it should start at installation time (or first boot at worst
> case).
The basic locale should be guessed before installation - this would be
what is preselected in the Installer, where you then can just change
it, if needed.
> Guessing is fine, as long as the user is informed of the guess and
> doesn't have to find out the hard way that it was done without their
> knowledge.
Personally, I wouldn't care at all.
Bye,
Axel.
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