On Wed, 19 Jul 2000, Ilya Konstantinov wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 01:22:08AM +0300, Pavel Bibergal wrote:
> > The new development version of GTK 1.3.1 is out :)
> >
> > http://news.gnome.org/gnome-news/963685850/
> >
> > full Pango/Unicode integration.. that mean the hebrew will work right on
> > next gtk versions :)
>
> I have tested the pango-gtk builds few months ago (using the provided
> testing program) and Hebrew was working fine (and as Dov described
> in his lecture, they use the two cursor approach, when it's uncertain
> if the next entered text would be RTL and thus added to the right of
> the existing RTL string, or a new LTR string to the left of the
> existing RTL), as well as having both Hebrew, Russian and English in
> the same text (xterm with Unicode + a Unicode variant of fixed did
What is "xterm with unicode"?
> it too).
Anyway, I installed the gtk 1.3.1 rpms (rpms are easier to uninstall) and
tried playing with it a little. Looks nice, but I haven't messed with it
too much.
> Also, it already did reversing of the whole GUI (positioning
> all widgets right-to-left), though not perfectly (it's probably
> better nowadays).
>
> Bad thing is - GTK+ 1.3 (which'll be released as GTK+ 2.0
> when final) won't be back-compatible. Preloading the new
> libraries before old applications does no good, and OWen
> said every application would have to undergo atleast
> some minor changes to use GTK+ 2.0.
Anybody tried to build existing gtk 1.2 apps with gtk 1.3.1?
>
> Oh, and GNOME 1.4 will still be GTK+ 1.2-based.
>
That sound like bad news. It means it will take longer for the
"hebrew-enabled" gtk to become the "standard" gtk.
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