Installer language and timezone

[mahmoudawadeen]

As referenced in #904

Reopen of #908

Choosing the language

Split timezone selection:
Example choosing Africa

Example choosing Europe

[ryanmitchell]

I like this, but I wonder if it might be simpler just using anticipate and autocomplete? Saves long lists... ?

[mahmoudawadeen]

I like this, but I wonder if it might be simpler just using anticipate and autocomplete? Saves long lists... ?

I see your point, however, the main idea of having a list was to limit the user from entering invalid choices. I split the timezone on two steps to limit the max length of the list. If it's really worth it to have a smaller list than this, we could do UTC +/- list, however i'd need to translate it to a timezone that TI understands. I could randomly choose one of the timezones that matches the UTC +/- but that can lead to confusion since there are multiple timezones with the same offset.

[ryanmitchell]

To me if the dev enters an incorrect value thats on them... but I'll let @sampoyigi make the call

[sampoyigi]

Nice how you broke out the timezone into continents. I believe we can apply the anticipate and autocomplete approaches, and to avoid users entering invalid timezone/locale, we can validate user input and ask again if necessary.

Not sure if its possible, what about an approach that detects the system locale and timezone and recommends using it during igniter:install? The user can either confirm using the system default settings or choose from the list. Can we also determine which locale to use based on the timezone?

[mahmoudawadeen]

@sampoyigi

I believe we can apply the anticipate and autocomplete approaches, and to avoid users entering invalid timezone/locale, we can validate user input and ask again if necessary.

The choices for the regions provide auto-complete since the actual choice is a string, not a number. Here i only typed "A":

I can also do the same for the timezones so the user has the full list of options and can use auto-complete.

Not sure if its possible, what about an approach that detects the system locale and timezone and recommends using it during igniter:install? The user can either confirm using the system default settings or choose from the list.

I don't think it's necessary that the developer is in the same timezone or locale.

Can we also determine which locale to use based on the timezone?

I wouldn't overcomplicate the logic there.

TODO:

1. Change the timezone choices list to support auto-complete while still showing the list.

[sampoyigi]

I wouldn't overcomplicate the logic there.

That's fine with me.

[sampoyigi]

Another thing, this PR should target the flame/v4 branch, the new destination for v4 stuff.