[Smc-discuss] Essential softwares required for the success of MGL.

[Suresh V Parambil]

 I am trying to create a minimal list of applications required to maket
MGL work. If you have any other apps in mind pl. add it to this list. 
 
 If anyone is interested in development of any of the apps, pl. let the
group know. We need to develop necessary tools.   

Essential softwares required for the success of MGL.
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1. Clean up rendering issues
2. A Malayalam compatible console  application (like gnome-terminal)
3. A Malayalam compatible office package (like open office)
4. Malayalam printing support
5. Utility apps like Malayalam typing tutor
6. try to reach 50% level of translation

1. Rendering issues (It is sort of stable, I guess)
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 In my openion we should focus on to GTK2 based application, as it has
better support

 We need to build additional patches for Pango (as all GTK2 is
dependent on it)
 We need to patch Qt - for KDE-Qt based apps (lower priority).
 CTL - mozilla uses CTL to render malayalam, If GTK based mozilla is
good, then we neednt have to work on this.

 ICU - I belive open office uses IBM ICU  for rendering, As pango has
inherited a lot from ICU, it should be similar I guess.


 2. Malayalam terminal
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  We need a terminal app which can show malayalam properly, so that it
will help  us to have Malayalam file names and directory names more
useful. KDE-Konsole shows malayalam in a distorted way. But I think we
need something based on GTK2
  
 4. Printing support
 -------------------
  Without proper printing support, there wont be much use to MGL in
business arena


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