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

[Mahesh T. Pai]

Rajkumar S said on Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 01:34:01AM +0530,:

 > >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?

You do not  know *my* mother. She  got used to the 'look  and feel' of
kde3 in 180 secs flat. I dread the day when she insists I teach what I
am doing on the console. Already, she is peeping over my shoulder ...

She can now pop in a vcd  and watch movies using xine w/o any help. An
engg. grad took two weeks and a lot of cajoling to reach that level of
'expertise'.

 > >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.

I  think  that somebody  should  join  the  pango-devel (or  whatever)
mailing list.  We  should have at least one member of  the smc team in
devel and  localisation teams of  each app we  are working on,  and if
feasabile, a page on our site should be devoted to these names. 

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

Unless we joing the upstread teams & join their lists, this might not
be possible. IMHO.

 > 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.

I did  a 'cat  file |more' on  multi-gnome terminal (no  malaylam file
names on my  file system), and ended up with  garbage. Will you please
explain how it is done? At present, I think that the terminals apps do
not support pango rendering.
 
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