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Re: katoob is marvelleous but ...



On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:48:40PM -0400, Haydar Net wrote:
> Salam,
> Thank you for your lovely katoob which i forgot to include it in Haydar 
> Linux 1.00, but In Sha2 Allah i will never forget it in the second 
> release which is comming soon.
> 
Any time!
Same to you and god help you "maintaining a distro is not like 
maintaining a software app."

> Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Jun 27, 2003 at 02:21:38PM +0300, Munzir Taha Obeid wrote:
> > 
> >
> >>Yes, I love the last release of katoob very much. It really a 
> >>masterpiece of work which solves most of the Arabic problems in the 
> >>Editors category.
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Thanks, Can't imagine how happy i should be!
> >
> > 
> >
> >>Just not to let Mohammed Sameer sleep I have two minor notes here:
> >>1. Three dots (can you see them in the subject ;) ) should appear after 
> >>all menu entries that lead to dialog boxes, e.g. Save As..., 
> >>Preferences..., Spell Check..., ...
> >>   
> >>
> >
> >Done in the CVS, It'll be available in the next release, But i have a 
> >question:
> >what about the menu entries that may lead to dialogs or may not depends 
> >on the situation ?
> >ex: the save dialog, May lead to a file selection dialog or may not 
> >depending on the buffer "if you have opened a file then there'll not be 
> >a dialog, but if you clicked new and then save there'll be a dialog".
> >the revert is the same...
> >
> >I know that the UI need some work.
> >
> > 
> >
> >>2. The option on the toolbar (I suggest to call it Standard Toolbar) 
> >>which is called "Change the typing language" has three entries: 
> >>US/ASCII, arabic, Arabic, what's this?!. Previously it's just English 
> >>and Arabic which is very clear.
> >>   
> >>
> >The 1st 2 "US/ASCII & Arabic" are the layout obtained from the X server 
> >via the xkb extension.
> >While the last one "arabic" is the one used by the emulator.
> >Do you suggest that the emulator ones be included in a sub menu ?
> > 
> >
> Then i suggest you change it to "XKB Layout" instead of "US/ASCII & 
> Arabic".
> 
US/ASCII & Arabic are not hardcoded, They are obtained from the X 
server.


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