2005/10/16 Darryl Barlow <[email protected]>
> I have just installed the latest version of Knomos and want to share a > few preliminary comments from an Australian perspective. At this > stage I have done little more than install the package, and this > should be borne in mind. I would like to thank the developers for > making such a comprehensive package available. > > Firstly, the program was I understand developed originally for Italy. > Although it does support English such support is not yet complete. > For example, I could not find any English Installation instructions > and had to resort to machine translation of the install document that > accompanies the package. This did cause some difficulties but > eventually I did end up with a working installation. The next problem > was that the menus were unusable. Some searching revealed that the > problem was the package was unable to find the relevant style sheet, > which it was expecting to find in /var/www/ rather than > /var/www/Knomos. This was overcome by placing appropriate symlinks in > /var/www. The language of the admin user defaults to Italian and I > changed this directly in the mysql database, which seemed to work. > > I then created a normal user. A brief tour of the interface reveals a > wealth of options. However, the design is of course tailored to > Italy. Some pages of the interface are not completely translated to > English. There is a list of items for costing purposes which is only > in Italian and apparently relates to some sort of Italian costing > tariff. The items may well be easily translated, but I'm not yet sure > how useful this will be in Australia. Likewise, the fields in the > database also seem to be at least partially tailored to the Italian > Law and Courts. > > I intend to have a closer look at the package but my initial reaction > is that it will need some customisation to realise its potential in > Australia. This is not to say that it will not be useful at all > without. For example, I am looking forward to testing the document > generation features, which may present some alternative to the > expensive proprietary packages currently available. > > I'd be interested in any thoughts others may have on this package, > particularly on using it in an English language environment and in > Australia or other common law jurisdictions.. > > regards, > > Darryl Barlow >
