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

[Rajkumar S]

Suresh V Parambil wrote:
> 2. A Malayalam compatible console  application (like gnome-terminal)

Why? Imagine you are giving your mother mgl CD? Why would she be 
interested in a command line?

> 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

web and more important email.

> 1. Rendering issues (It is sort of stable, I guess)

None of the patches we are using reached upstream. They do not even 
seems to be aware of these patches. The current patches do not compile 
properly for latest pango. I have asked for updated patches in the list, 
I hope I will get them soon.

>  In my openion we should focus on to GTK2 based application, as it has
> better support

Yes, we have to leave GTK1 out.

>  We need to build additional patches for Pango (as all GTK2 is
> dependent on it)

See bug no 121670 121671 and 121672  at 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121670

We must also stop working in an island and see that all our work gets 
accepted by maintainors.

>  We need to patch Qt - for KDE-Qt based apps (lower priority).

Qt already has Opentype and Indic support. I have not tested it though.

>  CTL - mozilla uses CTL to render malayalam, If GTK based mozilla is
> good, then we neednt have to work on this.

See http://www.linuxense.com/oss/render/mozilla/index.html if this is 
good enough?


>   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

Malayalam terminal is not required for having malayalam file names. 
Kernel is 8bit safe, so we can store utf-8 strings there, and GTK2 will 
render them as usuall.

raj