I don't want to be sarcastic here, but after passing many weeks "living" the mono/.net/longhorn threats, the developments in the linux world after Novell came in and with it's release of iFolder/simias under GPL, crossplatform developments (are GUIs obsolete?) the flamewars with the gnome developers etc etc...KDEs ppl working towards 4.0 (don't forget the embedded market...)... I am really wandering if these "enlightened beings" did ever concider which demographics they will target with a Distro running enlightenment?!!!
Arafat ÙÙ Ø, 2004-05-19 ØÙØÙØØØ 22:30 -0700, Nadim Shaikli ÙØØ: > --- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I attended the Lebanese LUG meeting today, and I must > > say I was quite impressed. I saw a group of people > > each of whom had a rainbow of skills. They also seem > > to be uber-efficient and _extremely_ organized. > > Attendance was also quite robust (I counted 21 heads). > > Great, we need to get some of those eager beavers to help us out :-) > > > I was asked to speak a little about Arabeyes :) and > > tried to give them the gist. They were pretty > > impressed when I mentioned that Mandrake was 100% > > Arabized and Fedora will be 100% Arabized by the next > > release, and they were more impressed when I mentioned > > we hope to have a fully Arabized gnome 2.8 :) > > I hope you also stressed to them that the translation effort(s) are > but a "part" or arabeyes and is not its sole main focus (I'm saying > this knowing full-well that you did, but its a mental reminder :-) > Development, documentation, HOWTOs, etc, etc might need a plug. > > > In short I was unable to provide them with all the > > necessary information on the spot, but they said they > > needed an outline, an integrator's guide if you will, > > of what you should do to get a live CD to support > > Arabic out of the box. I assume this involves a lot > > more than just installing whatever's necessary to run > > the setxkbmap command :). If anyone can help me write > > this integrator's guide that would be peachy... No > > rush, since its still early days, but don't puff up > > your pillows either! > > Here here - we've asked and needed this for a long time. Part of > Arabbix's mission was to bring that forth (believe it or not Arabbix's > first/main goal was to bring about a collective knowledge to dispense > amongst ourselves and those that cared first and foremost and then > possibly bring about a Arabic distro :-) > > > I notice that the CVS for Arabbix contains almost > > nothing but a few todos and readmes. Where's all the > > guts of the thing? Its better to let others who want > > to create a distro to model it after ours, instead of > > reinventing the wheel. > > I know I'll get in trouble here for saying this :-) but we've asked > a number of times and the reply has been go read Morphix's docs and > you'll get 80-90% of the needed knowledge (the quote will remain > anonymous :-) With that said, the argument that I continue to put > forth for the _need_ for this document is if the person(s) working > on Arabbix were sent to the SouthPole (or went there on vacation > and got stranded) we should NOT have to relearn anything. The doc > should outline all the steps needed so that if the person vanishes > no time hit is attained. The steps that I'm talking about are beyond > those spelled out on morphix's site. So in short - I am ALL for it > and would again call for Arabbix's CVS to be populated with all related > steps, docs and instructions. > > Just my $0.02's worth > > BTW: you might want to tell the .lb LUG to look into fvwm (fvwm.org) > for something that in fact support Arabic and is very lightweight > in lieu/addition to Enlightenment (which doesn't do Arabic AFAIK). > > Salam. > > - Nadim > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Domains Claim yours for only $14.70/year > http://smallbusiness.promotions.yahoo.com/offer > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
