Re: Reaction to Arabbix-0.5

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

I needed to add a couple more items below.  Did a bit more minimal
testing.

--- Nadim Shaikli wrote:
>
[snip]
> 3. Everything worked (network connection/scroll-mouse, etc) except for
>    sound.  I wasn't able to get it to even beep (didn't know how to
>    debug it).  I tried to play something off the net (streaming audio)
>    and Mozilla didn't know what to do with it - do we have the
>    necessary plugins to do that installed (necessary application for
>    realaudio, MP3, etc) ?
> 4. Upgrade to mozilla 1.5
> 5. In OpenOffice, once invoked it starts in RTL mode, but the keymap is
>    english.

6. The configuration settings and their alteration is VERY difficult
   to comprehend,
   a. On the second PC the graphics resolution was WAY too big
      (I hardly could see anything due to the small letters) and
      I could not find out how you go about changing the resolution.
   b. I was not able to find out where I needed to go and what
      I needed to do to enable and use the modem.
   c. How does one change the default desktop font - someone I was
      showing this off wanted "plain Arabic fonts" and not the fancy
      ones on there (I love what we have now btw) and I again wasn't
      able to find out the right place to do this.
   -> I highly recommend simplifying the various menus and grouping
      related things into a common menu.  So instead of having single
      items on the bottombar, have a group for 'Arabeyes', one for
      'Docs', one for 'Configuration', etc.  The amount of current
      menus and their navigation is rather confusing - newbies might
      be taken aback.
7. Vim didn't seem to have all its parts installed.  In Arabic mode
   it complained about no alternate keyboard (do :set arabic and then
   press on CTRL-^) to see the error message.

Anmar, as this is very important and the 10th is too close to ignore,
could you upload whatever configuration files that are needed with some
docs on how we can generate the image in order to help ya ?  Elzubeir
has noted that he won't be able to download multiple images (due to 
bandwidth constraints) and would like to download the necessary files
once and then keep on rebuilding it and creating the image.

Thanks again and keep up the great work.

Salam.

 - Nadim

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