Re: katoob is marvelleous but ...

[Haydar Net <haydar at haydar dot net>]

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.

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".

> Thanks for your suggestions, That's what i'm laking these days.
>
>  
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Haydar