[Indic-computing-devel] Fw: i8n-happenings (Kannada KDE Screenshots!)

[Tapan S. P. <ta...@ya...>]

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Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2002 07:43:54 +0100 (BST)
From: Pramod R <pra...@ya...>
To: su...@ma...
Subject: i8n-happenings (Kannada KDE Screenshots!)


Great news for those keen on getting kannada on linux 
via Kde and Gnome. Arun Sharma has posted a screenshot
of a kde desktop with kannada icons. The reason the
half-consonants or vattu's have not been showing is
kde-3 has basic support for Indian languages and not
for all the glyphs. Anyway, do subscribe to the
mailing list(given below), if you are interested in
translating gnome or kde. 
-Pramod.

 --- Arun Sharma <ar...@sh...> wrote: > From:
Arun Sharma <ar...@sh...>
> To: ka...@sh...
> Subject: [Kannada] Kannada KDE Screenshots!
> Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 13:07:38 -0700
> 
> Without further ado:
> 
>
http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/languages/kannada/desktop/snapshot2.png
> 
> Details:
> 
> - The translation work is not limited to kde-i18n/kn
> directory as
>   suggested in the KDE translation howto. 
>  
> - Every desktop icon (such as Home.desktop) has a
> table of translations
>   (Name[kn]=..., Name[en]=... etc) and needs to be
> edited. Take a look
>   at Home.desktop for example.
> 
> - I did a make install in kde-i18n/kn directory to
> generate
>   $KDEDIR/share/locale/kn and then copied it over to
> my laptop.
> 
> - My laptop is running a patched XFree86-4.2.0 -
> patched with freetype2
>   so that it can support open type fonts (No GSUB
> support - see my
>   earlier mails on indic-computing-devel).
> 
> - After the copy to $KDEDIR/share/locale/kn, I could
> go to 
> 
> 	Control Center -> Personalization -> Country &
> Language
> 
>   and the Indian flag and Kannada choice showed up
> ok. But selecting
>   them didn't switch the display of the desktop
> icons for some reason.
> 
>   So I hacked around it by changing the Name=...
> (the default string) to
>   be in kannada. That generated the above
> screenshots.
> 
> - If you're interested in duplicating my setup,
> you'll need to patch
>   XFree86 using files here:
> 
>   http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/files/
> 
>   (see his posts to fo...@xf...)
> 
>   and then untar this tar file into your $HOME:
> 
>  
>
http://www.sharma-home.net/~adsharma/languages/kannada/desktop/desktop.tar.gz
> 
> Of course, this work can't be checked into KDE cvs
> and demonstrates what
> is possible today and what needs to be done.
> 
> - Other observations:
> 
>   In many places, some names are hardcoded into the
> apps. For eg, a
>   directory named Desktop/Trash is hardcoded into
> the file manager.
>   Renaming it as "kasa" (kannada word for trash)
> won't do. The bright
>   side is that the Linux kernel seems to deal with a
> directory named
>   "kasa" (in utf-8) just fine. It's the shell
> (bash), xterm etc which
>   have problems. End result, you can't easily "cd"
> to kasa :-)
> 
> Tasklist and priorities:
> 
> 0. Write up a howto for potential contributors.
> 
> 1. Work on open type GSUB support in XFree86.
> Current plan is to
>   forward port indiX to 4.2.0 in such a way that it
> can be installed on
>   top of the existing free UNIX distributions.
> 
> 2. In parallel, work on translating the *.desktop
> files first - because
>    these are the most visible user interface
> elements. The problem is
>    compounded by the fact that some desktop files
> come from outside the
>    KDE project. Mandrake and most notably Redhat add
> their own *.desktop
>    files. Those need to be translated properly.
> 
> 3. Translate the rest of the *.po files in
> kde-i18n/kn directory. I
>    verified that those files build just fine, but
> haven't figured out
>    what else needs to be done.
> 
> Biggest problem: if I choose Tunga as my KDE font,
> it can display
> kannada fine, but can't display English at the same
> time. While this
> problem will be addressed hopefully in the future
> release, if there is a
> known workaround, I'd love to know about it. Same is
> true of yudit also.
> 
> Enjoy!
> 
> 	-Arun
> _______________________________________________
> Kannada mailing list
> Ka...@sh...
> http://www.sharma-home.net/mailman/listinfo/kannada 

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