Re: [Indic-computing-devel] NCST

[Guntupalli K. <kar...@fr...>]

On Thu, 7 Feb 2002 19:24:13 +0530
"Tapan S. Parikh" <ta...@ya...> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
> 
> Actually I sat with the lead developer of the NCST project, Keyur
> Schroff, who is a young, nice and knowledgeable guy, for over an
> hour today.  He seems to have done almost all of the work on the
> port himself.
> 
> Whatever the complaints, I must say his port is very robust,  user /
> programmer friendly, and renders beautifully.
> 
 I agree ( after having gone through the opentype code ). This part
could be reused in Gtk/Pango, & Qt.

Also it can be used, if not the desktop , in niche segments, where
using KDE/GNOME for just indian lang support would be too heavy, eg.
kiosks 

> He has some very compelling reasons for doing things the way he did,
> which he has been fighting out with the GTK/Pango people on his own.
>  I tend to agree with his view to a certain extent.
> 
 Interested to hear, I too had couple of them.

Regards,
Karunakar