On Thu, 1 Aug 2002 14:28:38 -0500,
"Mohammed Elzubeir" <elzubeir arabeyes org> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 31, 2002 at 01:00:22PM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
On Wed, 31 Jul 2002 10:20:40 +0300,
I have a suggestion -- are you looking or considering creating (or porting)
this program to non-Qt3 type of environments. What I'm getting at is, it
would be wonderful if such a program would exist and function properly
without dependence on Qt3 and/or Pango/Gtk. This might be a new area for
you (and us :-), but it might be a good place to start a discussion along
those lines regarding how to go about doing something like that (I know it
might be considered reinventing the wheel and that it might not sit well
with
No, it's not 'considered' to be reinventing the wheel, it _is_ reinventing
it. I don't understand why anyone would want to do that. Unless you are
suggesting adding Arabic support the native xlibs, this is a waste of time.
There might be those that don't want/have QT/Pango(GTK) that might want
to gain access to such an application. Using Xlib along with friBidi is
sufficient to get the job done and have it be relatively platform agnostic
(iPaq/other-handhelds, OS-X, Solaris, hpux, etc). This application in
particular is one of those things that I would highly suggest making as
simple and non-dependent on largish libraries as possible.
- Nadim
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