Re: [Indic-computing-devel] Hi All!

[Ajay G. <aja...@ya...>]

Hi Keyur/Srinath/Manoranjan,

Let's keep this post to indic-computing-devel only. If NCST has a devel=20
mailing list, let me know. We can take the discussion there. (If not, yah=
oo=20
groups is a good resource to create such a mailing list. Please create on=
e)

> When we started IndiX project, Indic support was out of scope in XFree8=
6
> development team. And when Pango project started, we already did a
> considerable amount of work. We also approached the members of Pango te=
am
> and showed them our willingness to help in the development. Unfortunate=
ly,
> no one responded to my mail. Also I was so busy in my project that I
> couldn't follow my that mail any further.
I know it is difficult to get heard on these mailing lists. But, I think =
the=20
best way to be heard on these mailing lists is to implement the changes, =
have=20
a good design document ready to explain and support your approach and mak=
e=20
sure any applications based on your changes work without hitch. That is,=20
address their concerns which are likely to be "Is the change architecture=
 (if=20
any) open and adaptable? Is it implemented? (They will be happy to includ=
e=20
their changes if they are convinced). Does it break existing tests? (test=
 of=20
openness of your architecture)". And of course, try to keep changes to=20
minimum so people can review them. With this done, I think there wouldn't=
 be=20
many hurdles.

>
> Since we have basic design conflict with XFree86 core development team
> members, we couldn't push our work in that branch.
Well that does seem like a fundamental hurdle. And I think Xfree86 is pre=
tty=20
much fundamental to Unix/Linux. But since you guys know the details of X=20
inside out now, maybe you guys can put together an extension module that =
can=20
be just plugged into X instead of having to make changes all around in X=20
code.

> We have already joined the kde-i18n list. We also like to help
> trolltech.com in providing indic support in Qt. Please refer to the mai=
l
> that I sent recently to this list:
>    http://lists.kde.org/?l=3Dkde-i18n-doc&m=3D102576553904044&w=3D2
>
> Right now we are studying architecture of KDE and Qt.
You may have to join qt-interest mailing list as well. This is at=20
trolltech.com (co.de etc). kde-i18n is more useful for people who want to=
=20
translate the KDE messages to Indian languages and will be needed once KD=
E=20
has Indian langauge support. For that, Qt needs to support Indian Languag=
es.=20
PS: KDE is Qt Based Desktop Environment (Think Windows or CDE). Qt is a G=
UI=20
toolkit (Think Motif, Visual C++, Tcl/Tk)

I am glad to see NCST interest in propagating the work. Keep it up, guys.

-Ajay