Re: What are the needed Arabized applications?

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

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Evolution:
Mail, Evolution:,important, Bad support (as I know :) ), version 1.4

openoffice:
officeware, openoffice, Critical, good Arabic support, version
1.1 RC3

Mozilla:
browser,mozilla, important,  good Arabic support, version 1.4


On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 10:51:43 -0700 Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com> wrote:
>Here is my list of needed Arabized applications:
>
>The rating I'm using,
>  5 - Must have
>  4 - Critical (very much in need of this)
>  3 - Important to have (need this)
>  2 - Nice to include
>  1 - Of Interest
>
>Name            : gnome-terminal
>Version         : 2.2.2
>Category        : terminal emulator
>Importance      : A Must (4/5)
>Status          : Proper Bidi and shaping.
>
>Name            : ncurses
>Version         : 5.3
>Category        : Text Based GUI. Important for Installers
>Importance      : A Must (4/5)
>Status          : Proper Bidi and shaping.
>
>Name            : Evolution
>Version         : 1.4
>Category        : terminal emulator
>Importance      : A Must (4/5)
>Status          : Proper translation
>
>Name            : xfce4
>Version         : 4
>Category        : Light Weight Window Environment (GTK2 Based)
>Importance      : A Must (2/5)
>Status          : Proper Translation.
>
>
>On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 10:14, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote:
>> Salam everyone
>> For the distro project we would like to know which packages would
>you
>> like to see in an Arabic-friendly distro; so we can include them
>in the
>> application lists.
>> Please include the following information about any suggested package:
>> - Category (editor/browser/officeware/etc)
>> - Name (katoob/mozilla/etc)
>> - Degree of importance (one of: critical/important/good/nice)
>> - Status with respect to Arabic
>> - preferably, the version
>> The degree of importance usually characterizes the category rather
>than
>> the specific package. The category will serve as a virtual package
>in
>> debian. e.g. browser(critical) means that either mozilla, konqueror,

>>
>> galeon must be there if they are the packages in category browser.
>>
>>
>> As an example:
>> katoob:
>> BiDi editor, katoob, critical, good Arabic support.
>>
>> openoffice:
>> officeware, openoffice, important, good Arabic support, version
>1.1 RC3
>>
>> This means that katoob or one of its replacements is a must for
>a
>> distro, openoffice or a replacement (maybe koffice) should be
>there.
>>
>> And remember, this does not include every single Linux package
>out
>> there. Just because many of us like chess does not mean that xboard
>> should be arabized;)
>>
>> Random: A Municipality must act fairly in the tendering process
>but is
>> not required to accept the lowest tender.
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