A couple of flags are missing from FirstBootPrompt window

[bitigchi]

Not all languages have flags associated with them. If someone could point out how to fix this, I can try to provide them.

[pulkomandy]

We are going to remove flags because using flags for languages doesn't make sense. Instead we will have some other way to identify the language (probably the 2 letter ISO code and I'm trying to think of a coloring or something that would make sense - maybe latin / cyrillic / ideograms / other?)

[bitigchi]

Considering we don't have many region alternatives translated at the moment, localised language names should be sufficient I guess. Anything other than this would look bloated, and a rework of the dialog would be needed. Flags are a nice touch, but not strictly required.

If we had many language region alternatives like English UK, US, CA, NZ etc., a distinction would be required maybe. For the locale and time-zone selection, it should be presented later within the installer steps.

An idea: An algorithm that checks the system time, and puts the languages used in that time zone with big selection buttons, and a drop-down for the rest of the list.

[pulkomandy]

There is a change on Gerrit for using geolocalization and using the "preferred language" of the country. But it needs an update to ICU first.

However it will work only if the computer is online and can scan wifi networks (which we use for geolocalizing thanks to a database provided by Mozilla).

Timezones would only work if the user has already configured one, which is unlikely in FirstBootPrompt.

[bitigchi]

Got it. Thanks for the info and clarification.

[pulkomandy]

The flags are gone.