New era in Xfree86 we all love and use (we need your feedback)

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Salam all:

I don't know how familiar are you with Xfree86 history. Today something 
big happened with respect to Xfree we all use and love: X.org forked the 
 4.4RC3 release and is now hosting it for the entire community to start 
working on using the old license. Basically, this is the new X we are 
going to see in almost all new distros and upgrades.

Why is this big news ? Well for the first time since the existence of 
Xfree, we are going to be able to influence alot of development 
decisions and maybe even get some of our developers CVS write access.

Why is that important for us? well since Arabic depends on BIDI, we 
need to start telling X.org what we need for full Arabic support:

Here is what I think we need:

- Xterm support for Bidi+shaping (hopefully using the new release of 
fribidi) (need the URL for the patches if you know them)
- Xfonts should have a complete set of Arabic letters in their fonts 
(nadim, I think you are the one to give us specifics on this matter)


These are the only two I can think of, please do think about more and 
add them to this thread. Once we are happy, we will find a liason 
between us and X.org to make sure the next major release of X.prg X 
server has these features.

You feedback is greatly appreciated.

Anmar