Re: Adding Farsi support to katoob

[Arash Zeini <a dot zeini at farsikde dot org>]

On Thursday 26 September 2002 07:06, Mohammed Sameer wrote:

[...]

> > Suggestion:
> > Remove the initial check for Arabic keyboard. It gives me an error
> > when I run katoob because it doesn't find the necessary keyboard, and
> > yet it works fine with KDE's keyborad layouts.
>
> it won't be removed but another mechanism would be implemented.
> what happens exactly is: if you have an Arabic keyboard configured using
> the xkeyboard extension it'll work fine, if not katoob'll display that
> woning and use the internal emulator. "it can be disabled"
> so if i removed it and there is no keyboard configured, what'll happen ??
> we can use the emulator directly without checking for the keymap. but the
> user'll miss any special keys he'd configured. now that's handled for
> arabic, but it'll be available for all other languages that katoob'll
> support.
>
> anyway that's a matter of users' opinion, if i get many requests to remove
> it and depend on the emulator, i'll remove it.

OK. Why I said it, is because it works just fine with the keyboard defined 
within KDE for example, which ofcourse is the same as set with setxkbmap. So 
it means on my system it checks for an Arabic keyboard, doesn't find it, but 
it still works fine, since it seems to be reading from the standard layout. 
That's why I didn't understand the purpose of the check. 
I can change keyboard layouts so from MPOV no need for the emulator, unless 
you want katoob to be useable on systems with no x keyboard extension on it. 

Greetings,
Arash
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