Dov Grobgeld writes:
> First of all, thanks a lot Alex for taking some of the distribution
> load off from me. I would rather spend my free sw time on coding
> rather than on maintaining a distribution site.
>
> Alex Shnitman wrote:
>
> > Actually, what I thought of was more like a library that has only the
> > changed functions, named the same way as the original ones, which
> > would then be LD_PRELOADed for each application you want to hebrewfy!
> > To me that looks like a cleaner approach; what do you think about it?
>
> Actually, I am not familiar with this approach, and certainly have nothing
> against it. My patch contains all together 4 modified files and another
> few new files. You really should have no problem creating a stand alone
> so archive of these files on your own. Feel free to do so if you think
> it is a healthier approach.
I'll try to make something like it. Thinking about it -- do these
routines change with new GTK releases? If they do then we'll need to
release a new version of such library for each version of GTK anyway.
> > What patching did it need? Just curious. To me it seems like your
> > library replaces the standard functions and that's all. Why would an
> > app need patching?
>
> Actually, I didn't patch it yet, but it has to in order to be used with
> the gtk rwidgets. Basically the GUI contains a text widget with an entry
> widget below it. The problem is that the keypresses to the text-widget
> are overriden and sent to the entry widget. There is thus no way to press
> the F10 key to make the text widget reflected! One solution is to reflect
> the entry and the text widgets at the same time, but this still requires
> a patch.
>
> My guess is that there will be lots of problems like this with other
> programs as well. We should have an archive with RPM's of patched
> programs. I guess your site could server that purpose, Alex?
I have no problem with hosting it, I just can't be held responsible
for maintaining all of them.
Anyone who wants to maintain a Hebrewfied version of a GTK
application, whether it's RPM, deb, or tar.gz binaries -- please send
me mail. We'll set up a system for maintainers to upload their files
and they will be added automatically to the web page.
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