On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 21:29:11 -0700 (PDT) "Nadim Shaikli" <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote: > Anmar, I think we need to continue on Arabbix but not with the > previous zest, furver and lack of sleep (but continue in earnest > nonetheless). I think the following are needed urgently, Please, Please, Please continue working frivolously on it. Never before in the history of computers (IMHO) there have been an operating system that you just put it in the CD drive, reboot and you have got a complete arabic interface. Plus, can't you see that Arabbix is comming in that meeting point (thanks to arabeyes work, cooperation of developers and OSS model) when arabic is available on the most important office suite , most important web browser , most important desktop enviroments, most important image manipulation program and the support of arabic in GTK2/Qt etc.. What I mean is from 3 years arabic was very limited on linux. Arabbix is the crowning jewel of the arabeyes project, because armed with arabbix we could influence people with power that linux is not just ready, it is there very powerfull and tailored for the arabic user. I am telling you this, Arabbix is the most powerfull open source weapon in the region. It is a weapon of mass switching!! No, you shouldn't feel that previous adrenaline rush. But you should continue nevertheless working at your own pace on the coolest distro in the region. Look at katoob, started first as a project for Mohammed Sameer to learn GTK. It then became a very important text editor for the whole region. And my own favourite/default text editor. Arabbix /will/ be my default distro. Just for an important reason, I want to indulge my self in an arabic UI, and I don't want to go into the exercize of configuring arabic on mandrake etc,.. Arabbix will have a successfull niche market in the region. What I think should be improved though is the ability to choose the place you live in, in the arab world. So for example if you are in lebanon the time zone should be set appropriatly and the calender should be set to the (I don't know its name, aylool, hozayran, etc..). Also when the distro is installed on the harddrive and I want to install new software, could synaptics UI be arabized and could the packages (at least the most important ones) have an arabic discription ? Thanks, Mostafa Hussein > > 1. A logo for the Arabbix project. To announce this project to the > various > sites out there (like distrowatch.com, linuxiso.org, others?) > requires Arabbix to have an associated image. Look into this and > try to come-up with something - be creative and surf the web to > get ideas as well as solicit help (it needs to look REALLY good > :-) - anyone care to help ? > > 2. We need your files uploaded to CVS along with some instructions on > what > one is required to do to create and/or improve on arabbix. We > need to go through your steps and see how best to work in a > cooperative manner so that all the various bugs get fixed (I'll > send out my report on 0.8 later). > > 3. Do please populate your bug_list (as listed on the Arabbix project > page) > and bugzilla with the various known issues/bugs at our earliest. > > 4. We need to complete the FAQ as potential new users will be looking > for > assistance with issues (for instance enabling and using the > dialup). > > Salam. > > - Nadim > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > The New Yahoo! Shopping - with improved product search > http://shopping.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at arabeyes dot org > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general -- ----- Get my public cryptographic key to verify my email from: http://www.geocities.com/whirlpool_98/mykey.txt
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