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I know this out of topic but why I can't use key shortcuts when I change the keyboard to Arabic ? is this a but in gnome ? because kde support that On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:03:31 -0700 Arafat Medini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Salam all, > >After some silence reordering things seeing the whole GNOME project, >> >shedule release apps etc... >I want to discuss with you a little bit the current situation of >GNOME >arabization, and the future plans. > >GNOME 2.2 had finally 100% Arabic support. BUT we missed our goals, >> >indeed evolution gnumeric gimp and Abiword translations had to begin >but this didn't happen, fortunately epiphany was at that time >translated. Work not officially declared but which I found nice >to do >was translation of sound-juicer and gDesklets: Karamba for gnome. > >So what will be the future? >GNOME 2.4 or 2.6, many will ask eh? we have to do 2.4 I'll say to >you >yes and no... >>From my experience with more then one year of translation (1 year >and 2 >months I think now ;) I concluded that three things are very important: >having a good nose! completing work and knowing what to do. >This leads to the following: >when I opted before some months for epiphany no one knew about the >project, I translated the strings instead of working on galeon and >at >the end epiphany was the official browser of GNOME! >When after that I began work on sound-juicer no one also knew what >this >is but it is sheduled to get included for 2.6 now, this fact of >being >ahead is very helpful for me I am only one translator and I have >to >spend my resources wisely with the biggest possible impact. >What I now suggest for me and the Arabeyes team in general is working >on >2.4 for sure BUT using the whole 7 months or more we get to rework >translations, AND work on important apps. 2.4 is as I've seen it >only an >upgraded version of 2.2 but the impact of 2.6 will be HUGE as it >will >include all what 2.4 included PLUS some of the best media apps for >the >DE : totem, sound-juicer, rhythmbox... And at that time gnumeric >and >Abiword will also have reched milestones with stable 2.xes this >means >the REAL big step for GNOME and consequently for Arabization will >be 2.6 >and not 2.4, that's why I want to make 2.6 a success for us and >the >whole Arabic linux users. > >So what will I do? >For now I'll upload the po files to arabeyes cvs server and then >take my >holidays :) After I'll come I'll continue work on the 2.4 desktop >pos >especially gnopernicus which seems to be a huge app and begin polishing >the work we've done from the smallest po going to the biggest. >In that meantime or maybe after I'll begin on my pet project Abiword >with bug filling for bidi support, UI problems and continued >arabization. Gnumeric is also a hot cake but I don't know how to >work on >this,I found a very good book on nilwalfurat dealing with technical >terms which I'll buy and I'll buy an english arabic dictionary I'm >sure >this will help. >Well that's my plan for the future, any help is warmly welcomed >as I'm >seeing ppl working on KDE I think some will maybe also want to work >on >GNOME. I'm very rich btw I'll give you a salary of 100000000000$ >a month >;) hehe > >for any suggestion, question or critic please respond :) > >cheers >Arafat > >_______________________________________________ >Doc mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc > > - -------------------- - -*- If Linux doesn't have the solution, you have the wrong problem -*- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Note: This signature can be verified at https://www.hushtools.com/verify Version: Hush 2.3 wkYEARECAAYFAj9R0DwACgkQIIFs5Sdd9ZjhbACgsBK8wFVkdmDR/1QC+Lj64YxVUzoA oL/GTbth0RPxul0zlNHLJ9GznLrd =uCxV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
