Re: a new project 'quran'

["The Vim Man" <theviman at fastmail dot fm>]

On Fri, 2 Aug 2002 11:57:03 +0300, "Mohammed Yousif"
<mhdyousif at gmx dot net> said:
> On Wednesday 31 July 2002 23:00, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> 
> > 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 many, but if you are looking to reach a wider audience and possible
> > learn something new - this might be cool to look into :-).  The X draw
> > widgets are all over the place (ie. to tell us how to map windows and how
> > to move them and what sort of notifications need to be sent to the window
> > managers, etc by looking at source code in
> > xterm/mlterm/vim/and-a-million-other-programs).
> >
> > Just a thought & again welcome back.
> >
> >  - Nadim
> I'm 100% with you but the problem is that most apps (vim..etc) use 
> motif/lesstif , I'm sure most ppl have that toolkit because it's used
> widely 
> for a lot of unix apps.
> Motif/Lesstif already has RTL support (we don't need fribidi ;) but 
> unfortunately it doesn't have utf-8 support (vim 'draws' the strings on
> a 
> xmDrawingAreaWidgetClass rather than using some text widget) 
> see : http://www.lesstif.org/FAQ.html
> 
> and this left us to only two choice , the first is using plugins for
> various 
> tks as M.Sammer noted , the second is statically linking it with the 
> libraries we will use for it.
>  
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> Mohammed Yousif
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Nadim,
    Are you trying to say that we use the X api so as not to rely on
    Pango, etc.?  That way, the program would work on any system
    running X.  I like the idea.   :D
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