[Indic-computing-devel] Re: X Test Suite failures in NCST IndiX

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ks> Instead you'll find words like "Modified X Window system".

There is no warning to potential users that IndiX's modifications
break existing applications.

ks> If they can get the things right for them, then they will be
ks> happy. If they can run other applications without any problem then
ks> they do not have any objection.

The problem is a serious one.

I have been looking at the error bitmaps from the test suite run.
IndiX is silently deleting, reordering, and substituting glyphs in
text drawing requests issued by standard X clients.

Imagine what this would mean for a spreadsheet program if the digits
displayed were silently deleted, reordered or substituted.

This is a very serious bug; IndiX's text rendering is B-R-O-K-E-N.

ks> for your concern, I'll put all the clarifications on our newly designed
ks> website at sourceforge. So don't worry, be happy :-)

This breakage in NCST IndiX was discussed nearly a year back on this
very list (I even remember mailing out a list of tests in the X test
suite that would be likely to fail -- the discussion is archived in
our list archives).  Running the X test suite to verify the reported
problems is a matter of a few hours work.  If you had had good
intentions towards your users you would have verified the issue and
taken corrective action then itself.

Even after a year there is absolutely NO MENTION about this serious
breakage in the NCST IndiX web pages --- not even a one liner warning
that:

   "The NCST IndiX server is not compatible with regular X clients".

On the contrary, we are seeing NCST's IndiX being promoted in local
government and development circles as an "Indian language solution for
Linux".

If this is not misleading users, then what is? :(

Regards,
Koshy
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