'r2l' continuation

[guy keren]

after throwing mud at each other at today's meeting (what do you mean
"what are these plugins for? they're the ultimate way to do r2l! ;) ),
we should come up with how to conclude things up, so we can get a working
multi-desktops r2l with an auto-refreshing biditext.

i talked to ilya (who currently maintains biditext) and ofcourse he sees
things quite differently then we seem to do, and i suggested he joins the
mailing list for the coming month, to influence the development process.

i think what we should do now is:

1. combine the r2l efforts.
2. take out the 'file manipulating' part into a seperate library, that
   will be used by all programs (biditext, r2l and any relevant daemon
   process, if any).
3. modify biditext itself to contain the auto-refresh enhancements,
   instead of keeping two seperate libraries.
4. decide how the GUI should look and behave, and make it the same on all
   desktop environments.
5. clean up the sources, write simple documentation, and pack everything
   up in RPMs, to be loaded to iglu.org.il (where the current biditext
   parts are found).

i think the file manipulating library (or rather, biditext communications
library, since in the future we might replace the usage of files with
another mechanism) should be defined first, to allow the work on biditext
and r2l to continue without having to rewire them to a new library later
on.

--
guy

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