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Re: new member..

great to get these responses and encouragements just for joining, hope I'll start contributing soon so as not to let you down!

Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj wrote:


Great to have you with us. We could definitely use another translator.
We have several translation projects and almost all of them need help
in some way or another. If your a KDE fan, then I strongly recommend
you join the KDE "squad". Don't let thr 99% fool you, KDE still needs
a LOT of work in terms of quality assurance. Are you up for that? If
you want to do actual translation work to whet your appetite there's
Gnome, but it may be sometime before you can start work on that, or
there's Thunderbird, under the Mozilla suite.



so i'll start then with KDE..

As a new member, you get to work at the rate that best suits you. By
your skills though I can guess you will be extremely useful for us :-)

As for typing Arabic within KDE, did you install all the necessary
components? You need to install both fribidi and some Arabic fonts.
(see Khotot project on Arabeyes[1]). Also you will need to be using
KDE 3.2 (I think) or later.



well maybe i should clarify something: I can type arabic in KDE, but only in certain applications, like in mozilla or Konquerer, but in any application. What I have is a small java application that I wrote and want to *type* arabic in a text field instead of copying and pasting from somewhere else. I recently installed Mandrake-linux 10.1, with which comes KDE 3.2, and I think some arabic fonts too, or else I wouldn't be able to type arabic anywhere, right? ok i don't even know if this is the place to discuss this! but thanks anyway..

After you have these installed type xkbmap ar at a prompt and you
should be able to start writing in Arabic, or you can use the
appropriate KDE Panel applet for switching between languages, if your
GUI-inclined.

Please do select a project, and browse through its repository of PO
files. You will need to install kbabel btw to work with PO files. See
the translation HOWTO[2]. We will then help you in getting started and
working right away.

Salam and thanks for joining,

Abdulaziz,

[1]: Khotot project: http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=khotot
[2]: Translation HOWTO:
http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/guide/translator-guide-en/


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