On Saturday 26 February 2005 07:52, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- Abdulhaq Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday 25 February 2005 15:28, Arafat Medini wrote: > > > Nice stuff! Would you want to import this to our CVS servers? And > > > continue devon it? Someone of core, what do you think ? I think > > > importing such an interesting experiment would be really sweet! > > > > It would certainly be helpful to put it on the CVS servers and also I'd > > like to put the OpenEmbedded font package somewhere too (easily > > ftp-able). > > If you are willing to maintain it, by all means - simply send an email to > 'contact' and it will get taken care of at 'core's next meeting. The point > that needs to be made is that we really need to make sure that anything we > import has an owner who is responsible for it (dead or fermenting projects > simply don't appeal to anyone unless they are completely done). We have a > serious issue with keeping up with our various projects and making sure > that people upkeep 'em. >
I agree that maintenance is vital. KPrayertime is very stable now so I don't think maintenance of this new work will be too burdensome timewise. Well the main thing is hosting the font packages for now - there is very little code on the Qt/E side (a couple of small patches for tashkeel - the hard part was finding out where to put the patches). I think it might be useful to host the vocabulary program (which is in OK working order on normal PCs). In order to run the arabic vocabulary program on the zaurus I ported it from Postgres to SQLite. It is now much more 'installable' on other people's machines so I am fairly sure there would be interest in this program (running on a normal PC) with arabic learners. In fact the program was originally written for me to create an arabic vocabulary book but I soon realised that it could be useful for revision also. Currently there are about 350 words in it and I am aiming for 5001 of the most common words. > > > > I had a look at FriBidi for the bidi side and it seems to do an awful lot > > of things that I would have thought would be better left in the parent > > application - such as mapping mouse coordinates to characters, and > > encoding conversions. Is there a cut-down version that just reorders > > unicode characters? Memory space is at a very big premium for handhelds. > > MiniBidi [1] is an option (it will soon ISA get shaping embedded as well). > As for a stand-alone shaping/tashkeel widget you can take a look at this > perl script [2] which was later ported to C [3]. Minibidi looks very interesting. > > BTW: you should most definitely get your work adopted by the upstream > project (Qt/E). Any patches/work/efforts we create are as good as the > current release and to make sure that your hard work is not wasted for > future releases it is best to get the application developers to accept your > work (even if it is #ifdef'ed out). Yes, I am currently trying to do that but it may take some time. I also agree about the #ifdefs. One obstacle is that the OpenEmbedded development environment is a bit of a beast and I am still getting used to it and of course the maintainers have to get used to me. wassalaam abdulhaq
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