At 17:12 26/01/2000 +0200, Ely Levy wrote:
>On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
>| This reminds me an idea which I thought while I was looking at the
>| screen-shots..
>|
>| Few weeks (months) ago, the ISOC announced that it will fund support for
>| Logical hebrew for Mozilla (either windows or Linux or Mac if I'm not
>| mistaken).
>|
>| Now this job has been approached by IBM (you can search the Linux IL
>| Archives for this message)..
>|
>| Would it will be possible to redirect this funding to the KDE hebrew
>support?
>
>Kde 1.86 (or crash as it is called) already support bidi and hebrew (while
>being based on qt 2.0)
>and hopefully so would koffice:)
I didn't try kde 1.86 yet, but as much as I understand from Lars (who is
the person who adds bidi support to KDE) - hebrew RTL and push mode is not
implemented yet.
>
>| I'm suggesting this cause the following reasons:
>|
>| 1. KDE is much more "mature" then GNOME or any other Dekstop environment we
>| have (and I'm excluding CDE cause I don't know whats it status)
>
>mature??
>what does that mean?
I mean it crashes much less then GNOME. I'm saying this after I tried the
"october" GNOME which crashes less, but still crashes, and creates core
files a lot.
>
>| 2. Once we have hebrew support for KDE - it would be possible quite easily
>| (and correct me if I'm wrong) to port it to GNOME, or to use it with
>| another desktop environments.
>
>KDE is based on qt gnome on gtk how would you port it?rewrite it all over?
I'm sure that once you have a full hebrew support in KDE - it will be much
easier to port it, rather then starting to write everything from scratch.
>
>| 3. The Hebrew support could be a good start to "push" some companies in
>| Israel to think about porting their software to Linux (and I already have
>| talked to few companies in Israel which are willing to porttheir
>| applications to Linux - but miss the Hebrew support)
>
>there are already projects that support hebrew on various program
>check the ivrix web page
I heard about Ivrix - your web link is not correct, but before we'll have a
major plan to create a full Linux distribution based on hebrew, initial
hebrew should take priority first.
>
>| 4. Maybe I should note - even Hebrew in Windows started with funding -
>| Israeli Aircraft Industries funded the hebrew support in Windows 3.x
>|
>| Any comments? Someone from ISOC maybe?
>
>Ivrix and someother linux wanna be distribtion is working on hebrew for a
>long time now
>check
>http://samhain.cc.huji.ac.il/linux/hebrew/
>and I forgot the ivirix site www.ivrix.co.il maybe?
>
>check your links again please.
Hetz
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