So it the end X got forked... Arafat
Am Mi, den 07.04.2004 schrieb Anmar Oueja um 17:06: > Salam all: > > I don't know how familiar are you with Xfree86 history. Today something > big happened with respect to Xfree we all use and love: X.org forked the > 4.4RC3 release and is now hosting it for the entire community to start > working on using the old license. Basically, this is the new X we are > going to see in almost all new distros and upgrades. > > Why is this big news ? Well for the first time since the existence of > Xfree, we are going to be able to influence alot of development > decisions and maybe even get some of our developers CVS write access. > > Why is that important for us? well since Arabic depends on BIDI, we > need to start telling X.org what we need for full Arabic support: > > Here is what I think we need: > > - Xterm support for Bidi+shaping (hopefully using the new release of > fribidi) (need the URL for the patches if you know them) > - Xfonts should have a complete set of Arabic letters in their fonts > (nadim, I think you are the one to give us specifics on this matter) > > > These are the only two I can think of, please do think about more and > add them to this thread. Once we are happy, we will find a liason > between us and X.org to make sure the next major release of X.prg X > server has these features. > > You feedback is greatly appreciated. > > Anmar > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
