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 _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list Doc at arabeyes dot org http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
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