Re: Arabic flag in KDE

Hi everybody

i have mandrake 8.0 and recently i downloaded KDE3 from Mandrake site. it is working very well with english, but when i add arabic language the size of the most windows is too big. the window is about three times bigger than the screen. also it doesn't display the fonts correctly. in addition to all of that, i can't configure the keyboard layout , i recived an error when i attemp to click on it from the control center. please if you can help me don't hisitate to email me any time.

thankfulness

abbas almutawa

>From: Mohammed Elzubeir

>Reply-To: doc at arabeyes dot org

>To: doc at arabeyes dot org

>Subject: Re: Arabic flag in KDE

>Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:55:40 -0500

>On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 04:23:27PM +0200, Arafat Medini wrote:

> > Mohammed can't I say what I think ? At the end it could be a bug or a

> > hack but I think I have the right to express waht I think no ? this is

> > not personal but I don't agree with u either I don't want to make it

> > politcal and I mean aginst whom I'll do it ? but I think it is a hack ,

> > can anyone explain to me why ans israeli flag and not another one ?

> >

>Of course you can express your opinions, but political ones have no place on

>Arabeyes mailing-lists. That applies to _everyone_ here.

>You can agree or not agree, believe or not.. it doesn't change the facts.

>The facts are:

>kdebase/kcontrol/kdm/kdm-appear.cpp -- this is the file responsible for the

>selection of the flag. The specific method that actually does the iteration

>trough the locales is:

>void KDMAppearanceWidget::loadLanguageList(KLanguageButton *combo)

>You can look at it yourself if you like. You can even write patches and submit

>it to KDE if you like.

>If you even like, you can look at:

>http://webcvs.kde.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/kdebase/kcontrol/kdm/

>And go through every single file revision and what has been committed.

>The bug report is this: http://bugs.kde.org/db/42/42275.html

>The post to kde-devel list is here:

>http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-devel&m=102074005300792&w=2

>We are not in the business of coming up with theories that have no basis. If

>you find something that is wrong, you find out what is wrong and fix it..

>notify the people responsible and get it working. It is irresponsible of us to

>make claims of wrongdoing by others if we don't do our homework first, and

>know all the facts.

>Thank you.

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