This is a classical example of the plight of people who actually move
their asses and do something. They invariably draw fire, no matter which
way they move.
We don't have enough volunteers for Linux-related stuff in Israel (the
proof is that no adequate Hebrew support exists, few years after the need
was identified and recognized).
Now someone stands up and actually writes an Hebrew word processor for
Linux environment. Instead of cheering him up, people criticize him
because of this reason or that reason. People who do the criticizing are,
OF COURSE, people who have no time to make their own contribution to the
effort. For, if they really did something, they'd privately invite him
to combine his efforts with their own projects.
I have two requests from Matan, though (hypocritical of me, isn't
tt :-) ):
1. Make as clean separation as possible between the SVGAlib based display
engine and the rest of the word processor. This will allow someone
else to replace the SVGAlib by whatever engines needed for plain
X-Window, KDE or Gnome.
2. Support the use of a scripting language (such as Tcl, Perl or Python)
interpreted by an embedded interpreter.
This will allow other people to turn your word processor into a
sophisticated and complicated and feature-rich one by adding their own
commands (implemented as scripts).
On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
>
> > Why??
> >
> > Either join your work to Koffice (or Goffice which is LONG from coming)
> > - but doing this whole work, for a single purpose - I really don't think
> > it will be usable, because:
> >
> > 1. You'll need to write everything from SCRATCH.
>
> So? I want a small wysiwig editor for writing small letters, notes, signs,
> small papers (for school). I don't want a full scale word processor that
> requires loading about 60MB of programs and libraries until it works.
> I checked my options, and I think it is easier to write from scratch.
> You can easily prove me wrong - add hebrew support to maxwell, abiword or
> whatever, and do it before my program is usefull enough.
>
> > 2. I see you're using SVGAlib (which you also wrote) - whats the point?
> > more then half of the cards available today are not supported
>
> I did not write svgalib, I maintain it.
> Would you care to back the "... half of the cards ..." assertion with
> facts?
>
> > As I wrote - I seriously suggest for you to join other projects and help
> > - your help will be VERY important to Linux IL community.
>
> Thank you for your suggestion.
--- Omer
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