> The ME is: > In places poor, where Internet connection is scarce, or not fast. > First language is not English, so proper Arabic support is a must. > The industry/economy is not highly IT'ed just yet. There is room for > OSS solutions and companies and they know how to play right. The CD > gotta appear professional. > > I agree 100% >> To help focus the discussion I have the following goals that I believe >> are necessary: >> >> 1. Must be installable on the HD >> 2. Must have Parted (parition editor for Fat32, NTFS, EXT2, etc) >> 4. Must have Arabic instructions on how to use the LiveCD and what you >> can do with it >> 5. Must have a light environment (XFCE4 for example) for all those 486s >> out there in the ME. In addition to GNOME of course. may I suggest directfb (www.directfb.org), It's the graphical library behind the new debian graphical installer (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/GUI). It is lighter than X, and doesn't have many unnecessary features, we can also boot (almost) directly in graphic (The CD gotta appear professional. ) gtk+ has also been ported. the great problem is that xfce and gnome don't use pure gtk+ they depend on X, and there is not a propoer window manager (some one is trying to port metacity, I don't know what he has done. > > Unfortunately, XFCE is not Arabised yet, and IIRC there is no proper > team yet. Ping Nadim and he will let you know. > Mohamed Magdy wanted to bring xfce translation here to arabeyes http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/doc/2006/September/msg00288.html You can post to the doc list, you may find someone interested.
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