Re: GNOME translation where we are and where we want to go.

["Ahmad Twaijrt" <msx at hush dot com>]

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Salam

I know this out of topic but why I can't use key shortcuts when I change
the keyboard to Arabic ? is this a but in gnome ? because kde support
that





On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 03:03:31 -0700 Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>
wrote:
>Salam all,
>
>After some silence reordering things seeing the whole GNOME project,

>>
>shedule release apps etc...
>I want to discuss with you a little bit the current situation of
>GNOME
>arabization, and the future plans.
>
>GNOME 2.2 had finally 100% Arabic support. BUT we missed our goals,
>>
>indeed evolution gnumeric gimp  and Abiword translations had to begin
>but this didn't happen, fortunately epiphany was at that time
>translated. Work not officially declared but which I found nice
>to do
>was translation of sound-juicer and gDesklets: Karamba for gnome.
>
>So what will be the future?
>GNOME 2.4 or 2.6, many will ask eh? we have to do 2.4 I'll say to
>you
>yes and no...
>>From my experience with more then one year of translation (1 year
>and 2
>months I think now ;) I concluded that three things are very important:
>having a good nose! completing work and knowing what to do.
>This leads to the following:
>when I opted before some months for epiphany no one knew about the
>project, I translated the strings instead of working on galeon and
>at
>the end epiphany was the official browser of GNOME!
>When after that I began work on sound-juicer no one also knew what
>this
>is but it is sheduled to get included for 2.6 now, this fact of
>being
>ahead is very helpful for me I am only one translator and I have
>to
>spend my resources wisely with the biggest possible impact.
>What I now suggest for me and the Arabeyes team in general is working
>on
>2.4 for sure BUT using the whole 7 months or more we get to rework
>translations, AND work on important apps. 2.4 is as I've seen it
>only an
>upgraded version of 2.2 but the impact of 2.6 will be HUGE as it
>will
>include all what 2.4 included PLUS some of the best media apps for
>the
>DE : totem, sound-juicer, rhythmbox... And at that time gnumeric
>and
>Abiword will also have reched milestones with stable 2.xes this
>means
>the REAL big step for GNOME and consequently for Arabization will
>be 2.6
>and not 2.4, that's why I want to make 2.6 a success for us and
>the
>whole Arabic linux users.
>
>So what will I do?
>For now I'll upload the po files to arabeyes cvs server and then
>take my
>holidays :) After I'll come I'll continue work on the 2.4 desktop
>pos
>especially gnopernicus which seems to be a huge app and begin polishing
>the work we've done from the smallest po going to the biggest.
>In that meantime or maybe after I'll begin on my pet project Abiword
>with bug filling for bidi support, UI problems and continued
>arabization. Gnumeric is also a hot cake but I don't know how to
>work on
>this,I found a very good book on nilwalfurat dealing with technical
>terms which I'll buy and I'll buy an english arabic dictionary I'm
>sure
>this will help.
>Well that's my plan for the future, any help is warmly welcomed
>as I'm
>seeing ppl working on KDE I think some will maybe also want to work
>on
>GNOME. I'm very rich btw I'll give you a salary of 100000000000$
>a month
>;) hehe
>
>for any suggestion, question or critic  please respond :)
>
>cheers
>Arafat
>
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>
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