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

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

So it the end X got forked...

Arafat

Am Mi, den 07.04.2004 schrieb Anmar Oueja um 17:06:
> 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
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