Re: ttf and arabic

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at accessme dot com>]

On Tuesday 25 December 2001 18:53,Youssef Adnan wrote:
> I recently installed XP and checked it out. God it is so user-friendly
> that I got frustrated. To tell you the truth, I disabled many of the
> wizards and some of the new features in it.
Well does overloading a system with wizards make a user-friendly system ? why 
do we have to take Microsoft's definition of a user friendly system ? does 
assuming that the user is a jerk , and building wizards and features to 
prevent the user from shooting his self make a user friendlt system ? I used 
Windows XP for less than an hour .. and I found it as you said, More stable 
that previous systems, but it is more user-offending .. assuming that the 
user is a jerk .. that is not a system that I would enjoy working on for 10 
hours aday ..
>
> Let's not target the common user now. They're relaxed with what they
> have. I was very happy to see Linux getting on more servers here in
> Egypt. I was extremely happy when I saw it gaining more grounds in
> Universities. And this is where we should stress: Universities and
> schools. Those are the decision makers of the near future. We've already
> passed the point of whether to use Linux or not. Linux wasn't known to
> most of the people in the Arab world three or four years ago. Now it is.
> You won't find one that doesn't know it. The point is: let's get the
> people who can advertise for it to increase. Those are easily located in
> the nearest University. Let's hold sessions for those people. I'd like
> to give you one more hint: You will be surprised by the number of Arabic
> speaking magazines that would like to get words about Linux from the
> experts. Get the address of a magazine and write them, check it out!
> When I did this in the past, I ended up with a series of five articles.
> One of them described how to install SuSE Linux in 13 pages. You can do
> this too guys. It took me less than five hours with a friend of mine to
> get the article ready with screenshots.

Well, Advertizing and documentation is important, but not as important as 
development and real work .. But making announcments about 'UP COMING' things 
that are not even started to work on is to make your word not trust worthy .. 
so I guess that it is better to work more, talk less .. at least until you 
have something to talk about ..


> Next, we have to unify our efforts. I've had enough of the OS war,
> enough of the distributions war and even more, enough of the desktop
> war. In my opinion, I'll use whatever I like and you use whatever you
> like is the solution. We need to make a solution to the differences so
> that we speak the same language. This list and others are very active as
> far as I'm concerned. We will always get the question: I'm a newbie.
> Which Linux distributions shall I use? This should have a common answer.
> The list should support a number of distributions. How will we be able
> to support new comers? Remember that each of us can be expert at one
> distribution, but how far will we be able to help? So, according to the
> number of experts at a distribution, the answer should be.

Well I guess that Arabeyes had never involved in any distribution war of any 
kind .. Arabeyes had stayed clear of this issue, and it will stay that way .. 


> As for the Gnome and KDE war, it's a very disappointing subject to talk
> about. Yet, the outcome has proven to be a productive competition
> between the two projects which yields to the fact that it was actually a
> good thing. What I fear is the misuse of this subject that could lead to
> problems on the lists. I've seen many of those but I don't know how to
> solve such problems.

:-) .. Well I like the idea of having two desktop environment .. and I am not 
willing to fight for any of them .. each got a philosophy .. each got an 
approuch, each is in a different programing langauge, each depend on 
different libraries .. so they are not to compare to reach other, but to 
compet .. and that will give a better outcome .. LETS NOT LIVE IN A WORLD OF 
ONE VIEWPOINT AS THE MS PEOPLE DO :-)

> Linux doesn't need more power. It only needs advertising! We don't need
> more power, we only need to unite!

I found your email interesting :-) but maybe misplaced .. it seems that you 
didn't mean to talk about this issue to the Arabeyes .. but to other Linux 
users .. well .. it is an interesting subject .. but due to the subject 'ttf 
and arabic' and place 'general list' I got a little confused about it 

later
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Yours,
Isam Bayazidi
Amman - Jordan
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