Re: Some thoughts on GNOME

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El vie, 14-03-2003 a las 17:36, lan15 walla co il escribió:
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> 1)Look
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> Xchat - The main gnome irc software
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> needs a new look,the colors there are awful.
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> Sticky Notes- This Program Has a bad look.
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> http://loban.caltech.edu/stickynotes/images/stickynotes_screenshot.gif
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> I agree with you, I would use xpad instead.
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> http://xpad.sourceforge.net/screenshots.html
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> 2)BiDi - (What BiDi Is And More About It) - 
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> http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/
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> http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/userguide/bidi.html
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> Better BiDi Support In Editing
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> one problem with the BiDi Support in Gtk is that there isnt an
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> Combination keys that change the direction (In Win - Crtl And Shift)
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> 3)Control Center
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> The Control - Center Needs lots of improvements
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> One impotent item missing is the internationalisation item.
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> In Windows there is something similar to this
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> One reason to add this item is because:
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> Adding a new langauge to Gnome is a difficult task
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> if i want to enable hebrew support in Gnome i need to
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> Change all The Lc ENV to he_IL (and this can be done just from the
> konsol)
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> If I Want To Enable support for writing hebrew i need to do all this
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> Hebrew Keyboard under X
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> There are about 15 ways of getting your keyboard to type hebrew. I
> will give the simplest solution, using xkb and gkb. You probably
> noticed an applet called gkb, or "Keyboard Layout Switcher". This
> applet is supposed to help you change the layout of your keyboard. 
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> Right click on the applet and choose "Prefrences...". 
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> In The Keymaps tab click the Add button. 
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> Browse down the tree and select "Hebrew xkb keymap". 
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> Notice that by clicking on the applet the flag changes, if you get the
> Israeli flag and try typing you will notice that you are still typing
> in English. This is because your keyboard is now working in a
> Hebrew/English mode, To toggle between modes you must give xkb a few
> more arguments. In the preferences dialog select "Hebrew xkb keymap"
> and click the "Edit" button. 
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> In the new dialog change command to: setxkbmap -option
> grp:switch,grp:ctrl_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll il 
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> Now once you select the Israeli flag on the applet and press
> ctrl+shift the "Scroll" led will light up on your keyboard and you
> will be typing hebrew. 
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> in Windows Xp for example all i can Solve This to problem (1-hebrew
> support,hebrew writing support)
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> get into the control panel
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> then Double Click On Regional and language options
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> then i can chose from there Hebrew Support like date, time and more)
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> and i can chose from the langauge section Hebrew Support for writing 
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> and thats all.
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> 4)Fonts- New Idea
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> Need to be Option To Select Fonts For Hebrew Language and fonts for
> English Language
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> because if now i use Arial Font 
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> In Hebrew Mode it looks good
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> but in English Mode it looks sucks
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> So My Main Idea is that i want to do a combination.
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> 5) General
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> Gnome HomePage -
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> There is lots of pages that not up2date 
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