Fantastic! Great! Cool! Hot! The problem of Arabic is almost solved!

["Munzir Taha" <munzirtaha at hotmail dot com>]

Thaaaaaaaanx Mohammed Elzubeir && Hicham Amaoui for the configuration and
installation method.
Yes, I am very happy that the gooey (GUI) is changed to Arabic after issuing
the command ./configure --prefix=/usr. Now the question is how can I guess
such an option. For sure it's not thru a sorcerer wand, there is some logic,
ain't it?
Another question is how the change the menu to appear from right to left
like in the arabeyes site (see
http://arabeyes.sourceforge.net/images/screenshots/kde3/picture-001.html )

A third question: In the control center the order of the options
(Information Personalization and the like) has changed when converted to
Arabic. How has this happened. What I understand translation the .po files
doesn't do this!!!

Munzir Taha
Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer
New Horizons Computer Learning Center

----- Original Message -----
> Message: 1
> From: Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 09:26:40 -0500
> To: general at arabeyes dot org
> Subject: Re: How to change the KDE3 GUI language to Arabic
> Reply-To: general at arabeyes dot org

> The problem here it seems that wherever your KDE files are stored, as the
RPM's put
> them, is not in /usr/local/kde... which is where the Arabic interface was
installed.
> Since I don't know abut the organization of the KDE rpm's for RH, I can't
tell you where
> to install it.. but find where your KDE stuff is, and then use that
directory as the
> prefix when doing a ./configure on the kde-i18n-ar file:
>
> $ ./configure --prefix=/my/kde/dir
>
> then it should install in the appropriate place and show.
> -------------------------------------------------------
>
> --__--__--
>
> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 16:38:08 +0200
> From: Hicham Amaoui <amaoui at altern dot org>
> To: general at arabeyes dot org
> Subject: Re: How to change the KDE3 GUI language to Arabic
> Reply-To: general at arabeyes dot org
>
>
>
> no, they now support kde and they provide packages for 33 languages. I
> don't know why they didn't as some
> of their staff ar working on pango and gtk2
>
> >
> >The problem here it seems that wherever your KDE files are stored, as the
RPM's put
> >them, is not in /usr/local/kde... which is where the Arabic interface was
installed.
> >Since I don't know abut the organization of the KDE rpm's for RH, I can't
tell you where
> >to install it.. but find where your KDE stuff is, and then use that
directory as the
> >prefix when doing a ./configure on the kde-i18n-ar file:
> >
> >$ ./configure --prefix=/my/kde/dir
> >
> it's /usr, so you do
>
> ./configure --prefix=/usr
>
> >
> >
> >then it should install in the appropriate place and show.
> >
> Check also that you have installed some fonts that support arabic.