Problem accessing GNOME CVS

2006-03-07 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi,
  I am the coordinator for the Oriya translation team, and have made 
several commits in the past. Over the last few months, we have not
committed anything, as the project had stagnated. However, we now
have a fresh impetus to complete GNOME localization in Oriya, and I
was trying to make some new commits, following the instructions at
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/tutorials/gnome-i18n/translator.html,
but run into the problem that I am asked for a password for an
account at cvs.gnome.org. I do not recall this happening before, nor
do I have a record of any such password. I have even tried to
regenerate my SSH keys as per 
http://sysadmin.gnome.org/users/security.html, but that does not help.
Could someone look into this? I can send details about my user name,
etc., by private email. Thanks.

Regards,
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Re: release notes

2006-03-07 Thread Davyd Madeley
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 14:43 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote:

> I've added rni18n.xml now: commentary might need changing :)

Perhaps one of the translators could provide me with a screenshot of a
translated GNOME desktop. Something in a non-Latin script would be
preferred.

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Re: cvs-commits-list reports messed up?

2006-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
روز سه‌شنبه، 2006-03-07 ساعت 21:42 -0500، Behdad Esfahbod نوشت:
> Seems like the commits script is messing up a bit.  See this one
> for example, my commit on vte has been mixed with a translators
> in straw:
> 
>   http://mail.gnome.org/archives/cvs-commits-list/2006-February/msg06319.html
> 
> Sorry if it's old news,

Bonsai also returns weird results:
http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvsquery.cgi?branch=&dir=vte&who=behdad&date=explicit&mindate=2006-02-25%2019:12&maxdate=2006-02-25%2019:14

(Check the change in fa.po)

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cvs-commits-list reports messed up?

2006-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi,

Seems like the commits script is messing up a bit.  See this one
for example, my commit on vte has been mixed with a translators
in straw:

  http://mail.gnome.org/archives/cvs-commits-list/2006-February/msg06319.html

Sorry if it's old news,

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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi again,

On 3/7/06, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 14:50 +, Edward Hervey wrote:
> >   "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where
> > patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to
> > offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are
> > available."
> >
> >   Does that make more clear the *freedom of choice* offered to users ?
>
> Thats confusing for other reasons "for which no legal plugins are
> available"... (if so how is anyone distributing them)"
>
> How about
>
> "A small number of countries permit patents on software and algorithms.
> This may prevent the distribution or use of some open source plugins in
> these countries. The GNOME project is strongly opposed to these harmful
> patent policies but also recognizes that it is important for users to be
> able to make choices. Therefore Gstreamer 0.10 permits users in these
> countries to install third-party non-free codecs when open source
> plugins are not available. The GNOME 2.14 distribution does not itself
> contain these non-free components."
>

  Fine by me, you've got way more experience explaining those issues by me :)

  Thanks for the rewrite and clarifications,

Edward

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>
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Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
روز سه‌شنبه، 2006-03-07 ساعت 15:51 +0100، Erdal Ronahi نوشت:

> Maybe you (Roozbeh, Behdad) can help me select a beautiful one? I am
> hardly able to read Arabic script, let alone say something about
> esthetics.

I'm sorry, but Kurdish font aesthetics is not necessarily the same as
Persian font aesthetics. I know that Arabic readers, Persian readers,
and Urdu readers have very different font aesthetics. For Kurdish, they
the aesthetics be aligned with one of these, or it may be different for
Iranian Kurdish vs Iraqi Kurdish. (Well, if you found what's the case
with Kurdish fonts aesthetics, please tell me.)

roozbeh


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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi,

> > plugins are not available. The GNOME 2.14 distribution does not itself
> > contain these non-free components."
> 
> Actually better yet
> 
> "contain or endorse"

I'd be completely fine with this standpoint.

However, not everyone in the GNOME community necessarily agrees with
this.  I got *a lot* of requests to add an mp3 recording profile to
gnome-media.  Historically, I've always refuted these requests because I
agree that GNOME should not be endorsing them.

But the dam might crack at some point :)

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Re: release notes

2006-03-07 Thread Andre Klapper
hi davyd,

great job!

> Please feel free to start proofreading them now
my 2 cents: in "What's New For Users", "contexual" should be "contextual" i
guess. :-)

don't know if any of the Evolution changes (at least those visible to the
users) should also be included; and i guess i am much too late - sorry, i'm
currently on vacation and neither checked my mail regularly nor took my
laptop with me. :-)
anyway, they can be found
here:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/evolution/mail/default/C/Inbox?rev=1.6&view=markup

cheers,
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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 16:37 +, Alan Cox wrote:
> plugins are not available. The GNOME 2.14 distribution does not itself
> contain these non-free components."

Actually better yet

"contain or endorse"

Alan

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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 14:50 +, Edward Hervey wrote:
>   "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where
> patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to
> offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are
> available."
> 
>   Does that make more clear the *freedom of choice* offered to users ?

Thats confusing for other reasons "for which no legal plugins are
available"... (if so how is anyone distributing them)"

How about

"A small number of countries permit patents on software and algorithms.
This may prevent the distribution or use of some open source plugins in
these countries. The GNOME project is strongly opposed to these harmful
patent policies but also recognizes that it is important for users to be
able to make choices. Therefore Gstreamer 0.10 permits users in these
countries to install third-party non-free codecs when open source
plugins are not available. The GNOME 2.14 distribution does not itself
contain these non-free components."




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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi Alan :)

On 3/7/06, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 13:44 +, Edward Hervey wrote:
> >   I could go on very long about the quality/benifits of licensed and
> > unlicensed codecs, but I think the strong point here is that it
> > *allows* both for everybody's benefits (nothing *forces* you to
> > download/use them AFAIK).
>
> Given the goal of gnome to be a free desktop I think the description
> "take advantage of" is misleading. It allows third party vendors to
> "take advantage of" users. It allows users to be taken advantage of.
>
>
> And its hardly a feature from a software freedom perspective.

  revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7:

  "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where
patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to
offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are
available."

  Does that make more clear the *freedom of choice* offered to users ?

  We are pushing strongly the support of patent-free formats like
theora/vorbis/dirac (for which Fluendo has already put in a lot of
efforts and is carrying on with projects like
http://schrodinger.sourceforge.net/), unfortunately we are not living
in a perfect world :(

  We ARE for free formats !

Edward

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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 13:44 +, Edward Hervey wrote:
>   I could go on very long about the quality/benifits of licensed and
> unlicensed codecs, but I think the strong point here is that it
> *allows* both for everybody's benefits (nothing *forces* you to
> download/use them AFAIK).

Given the goal of gnome to be a free desktop I think the description
"take advantage of" is misleading. It allows third party vendors to
"take advantage of" users. It allows users to be taken advantage of.


And its hardly a feature from a software freedom perspective.


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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi,

  I didn't mention any specific country, nor the whole world I just
said "for which no legal plugins are available." which seemed to be
the most neutral way of putting it.\
  I could go on very long about the quality/benifits of licensed and
unlicensed codecs, but I think the strong point here is that it
*allows* both for everybody's benefits (nothing *forces* you to
download/use them AFAIK).

  Edward

On 3/7/06, Tommi Vainikainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2006-03-07T11:34:25+0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > GStreamer 0.10 will also allow users to take advantage of multimedia
> > plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to offer support for licensed
> > codecs for which no legal plugins are available. These may include
> > support for AC3, WMA, MP3 and more. A licensed, yet freely available,
> > MP3 plugin for GStreamer 0.10 has already been made available by
> > Fluendo, a long-time supporter of GStreamer.
>
> For me this seems bit U.S. centric. In many countries (even Western
> countries) reverse engineering is allowed. In many more countries
> there are no patents restricting those file formats. Therefore
> codes/plugins are most likely "illegal" only in U.S. and some other
> countries, but not all over the world.
>
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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/7/06, James Henstridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Edward Hervey wrote:
>
> >  revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7:
> >
> >  "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where
> >patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to
> >offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are
> >available."
> >
> >  Does that make more clear the *freedom of choice* offered to users ?
> >
> >
> Apart from the freedom issue (which is important), is this actually a
> new feature for Gnome 2.14?  GStreamer 0.8 also used plugins, so surely
> codec vendors had the same ability to offer plugins back then as with 0.10.
>
> Has anything actually changed here other than a vendor (Fluendo) making
> use of this ability?  If not, then this probably isn't appropriate for
> the release notes.

This issue has been a big, ongoing issue for the linux desktop for
years. It certainly seems appropriate to talk about the results now
that our long-term strategic choices have blossomed.

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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread James Henstridge
Edward Hervey wrote:

>  revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7:
>
>  "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where
>patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to
>offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are
>available."
>
>  Does that make more clear the *freedom of choice* offered to users ?
>  
>
Apart from the freedom issue (which is important), is this actually a
new feature for Gnome 2.14?  GStreamer 0.8 also used plugins, so surely
codec vendors had the same ability to offer plugins back then as with 0.10.

Has anything actually changed here other than a vendor (Fluendo) making
use of this ability?  If not, then this probably isn't appropriate for
the release notes.

James.
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Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Erdal Ronahi

Hi, 

Apart from SIL fonts (which are gratis but not free), I don't know any
gratis fonts that support the additional Kurdish letters. If you have
the time, you can try getting one of the free Arabic fonts and addKurdish support to it. The FarsiWeb Persian fonts are already shippedwith Debian, and the King Abdulaziz City fonts are shipped with bothDebian and Fedora.


there are some gratis fonts for windows that work fine under linux.
They are found at www.kurditgroup.org, the most popular is "unikuweb"
(Unikurd Web) . I have contacted the authors and asked them whether
they want to GPLize it.

In fact, I just found a lot of gratis fonts: 
http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_KurdishA.html and
http://www.travelphrases.info/gallery/Fonts_KurdishA2.html

Unfortunately there is no information about the licences. I will have
to do a research. Maybe you (Roozbeh, Behdad) can help me select a
beautiful one? I am hardly able to read Arabic script, let alone say
something about esthetics.

Regards,
Erdal

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Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
روز سه‌شنبه، 2006-03-07 ساعت 10:20 +0100، Erdal Ronahi نوشت:
> are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the
> variants of Arabic script well? We have particular problems with
> Kurdish which has some diacritics not used in other languages. There
> are a lot of fonts for standard arabic script, but less for variants.
> I could not find any suitable font in Ubuntu, and I think this is an
> issure for GNOME also.
> 
> Maybe Roozbeh knows?

Apart from SIL fonts (which are gratis but not free), I don't know any
gratis fonts that support the additional Kurdish letters. If you have
the time, you can try getting one of the free Arabic fonts and add
Kurdish support to it. The FarsiWeb Persian fonts are already shipped
with Debian, and the King Abdulaziz City fonts are shipped with both
Debian and Fedora.

Both are unfortunately under-maintained these days, of course.

roozbeh


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Re: string freeze confusion

2006-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
روز سه‌شنبه، 2006-03-07 ساعت 06:45 -0500، Behdad Esfahbod نوشت:
> Just put it somewhere so it's not lost and link it from:
> 
>   http://live.gnome.org/GnomeI18nDeveloperTips
> 
> and we can always move it later.

OK, I put it on the same page under "Innocent unmarked messages". Would
you take a look and revise/expand?

roozbeh


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Re: string freeze confusion

2006-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> روز پنجشنبه، 2006-03-02 ساعت 20:10 -0500، Behdad Esfahbod نوشت:
> > Nobody knows that
> > something like this needs to be marked for translation, because
> > there's no rule saying so anywhere.
>
> You're right of course, but I am coming to the belief that everything
> that is displayed to a normal user (vs written in logs, only saved in
> config files, sent on the wire using the various protocols, etc) should
> be marked for translation. "%d" and "%f" need to be marked for
> translation (for users of localized digits), "," (comma) needs to be
> marked for translation (for Arabic script languages), "%s" needs
> to be marked for translation (for locales that don't use boldface or
> prefer not to), "%s <%s>" needs to be translated (for bidi
> languages), ...

Just put these all in:

  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeI18nDeveloperTips

or a separate page linked from there.

> > The point being: this really needs to
> > be documented somehwere.  So no, it's not ignorance.  It's lack
> > of docuentation.
>
> I can't agree more.
>
> roozbeh

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Re: string freeze confusion

2006-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Roozbeh Pournader wrote:

> روز پنجشنبه، 2006-03-02 ساعت 21:20 -0500، Behdad Esfahbod نوشت:
> > Roozbeh, do you mind drafting
> > something about this on the wiki?
>
> Sure, but I don't really know my way around the wiki. Isn't the
> documentation for this stuff (developer's howto for i18n) on
> developer.gnome.org?

Just put it somewhere so it's not lost and link it from:

  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeI18nDeveloperTips

and we can always move it later.

> Roozbeh

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Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Erdal Ronahi
Hi, 
Take a look at the Scheherazade and Lateef smart fonts By Jonathan Kewand Bob Hallissy from SIL: 
http://scripts.sil.org/ArabicFontsThey're not free as in freedom yet, but will probably be released underthe OFL (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL
) in the future.
Yes, I know them. They have all the characters. Unfortunately they look
extremely small in mixed Latin/Arabic text. Are they shipped with any
distribution at the moment?

What I am looking for is a font that IS or WILL be distributed with
GNOME or at least one major distribution to use it as a default on
websites like the Kurdish Wikipedia.

Regards,
Erdal
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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
On 2006-03-07T11:34:25+0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> GStreamer 0.10 will also allow users to take advantage of multimedia
> plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to offer support for licensed
> codecs for which no legal plugins are available. These may include
> support for AC3, WMA, MP3 and more. A licensed, yet freely available,
> MP3 plugin for GStreamer 0.10 has already been made available by
> Fluendo, a long-time supporter of GStreamer.

For me this seems bit U.S. centric. In many countries (even Western
countries) reverse engineering is allowed. In many more countries
there are no patents restricting those file formats. Therefore
codes/plugins are most likely "illegal" only in U.S. and some other
countries, but not all over the world.

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Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
> Hi,
> 
> are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the
> variants of Arabic script well? We have particular problems with Kurdish
> which has some diacritics not used in other languages. There are a lot
> of fonts for standard arabic script, but less for variants. I could not
> find any suitable font in Ubuntu, and I think this is an issure for
> GNOME also.
> 
> Maybe Roozbeh knows?
> 
> Regards,
> Erdal

Take a look at the Scheherazade and Lateef smart fonts By Jonathan Kew
and Bob Hallissy from SIL: http://scripts.sil.org/ArabicFonts

They're not free as in freedom yet, but will probably be released under
the OFL (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL) in the future.


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Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Erdal Ronahi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the variants of
> Arabic script well? We have particular problems with Kurdish which has some
> diacritics not used in other languages. There are a lot of fonts for
> standard arabic script, but less for variants. I could not find any suitable
> font in Ubuntu, and I think this is an issure for GNOME also.

Did you try SIL.org fonts?

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Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi Davyd,

  Nice work, but I noticed several (typo) mistakes in the GStreamer
section. Here is the proposed fixed/updated section with slight
rewrites to make it easier to read:

"""
 GNOME 2.14 uses the technology of GStreamer 0.10. The GStreamer
multimedia framework is a powerful, pluggable audio and video
framework used on Linux and UNIX desktops as well as in embedded
devices and much more. This latest release series of GStreamer is
faster and more stable than any of the previous versions. Issues like
synchronization of audio and video across different devices have been
addressed, as well as threading and the dynamic handling of multimedia
plugins. You can find out more from the GStreamer website.

All of the multimedia applications that ship with GNOME have been
upgraded to take advantage of the latest GStreamer; including Totem,
Sound Juicer and the volume controls.

GStreamer 0.10 will also allow users to take advantage of multimedia
plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to offer support for licensed
codecs for which no legal plugins are available. These may include
support for AC3, WMA, MP3 and more. A licensed, yet freely available,
MP3 plugin for GStreamer 0.10 has already been made available by
Fluendo, a long-time supporter of GStreamer.
"""

  Edward

On 3/6/06, Davyd Madeley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Ok guys and gals. I am announcing a preliminary draft of the release
> notes for 2.14. We now require proof readers for spelling, grammar and
> technical correctness.
>
> The latest committed version is online at:
> http://www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/C/index.html
>
> You can also check out the release notes from CVS:
> http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/gnomeweb-wml/www.gnome.org/start/2.14/notes/docbook/C/
>
> We are using gnome-doc-utils for translation. I hope the translators
> know how to get all of that working, because I have no idea.
>
> Warning, I AM AN AUSTRALIAN, SPELLINGS MAY BE CONSIDERED INCORRECT. My
> grammar is also pretty appalling. Please send through corrections for
> these. Feel free to correct minor spelling mistakes yourself.
>
> Discussion should happen on list as appropriate or on the IRC channel
> #release-notes on irc.gnome.org.
>
> Addendum:
>  - If anyone knows the status of the LiveCD, that section requires
> updating.
>  - Danilo was meant to be providing the i18n stats page, he said he
> added it, but I can't see where.
>  - Does anyone want to take charge on writing a press release? I am
> willing to raise my hand again if so required.
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Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Erdal Ronahi
Hi,

are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the
variants of Arabic script well? We have particular problems with
Kurdish which has some diacritics not used in other languages. There
are a lot of fonts for standard arabic script, but less for variants. I
could not find any suitable font in Ubuntu, and I think this is an
issure for GNOME also.

Maybe Roozbeh knows?

Regards,
Erdal2006/3/1, Nicolas Mailhot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Simos Xenitellis  gmx.net> writes:> Fedora has Dejavu 2.3 (latest) in their repository.And if I may chirp in the DejaVu in Fedora Extras is rebuilt from sfd sources -
it's not the upstream binary dump.While I appreciate all the new font projects none of them so far (with theexception of junicode - I may pull it in FE just to reward this) is making anyeffort to free the whole font ecosystem. So as Luxi & Vera showed the fonts may
be free to use but good luck if you need a glyph not included by the originalauthor. Even if the license did permit modifications (usually they don't) youdon't have the same technical access as the author (unless he tells you what
expensive closed windows tool to buy).With DejaVu anyone can ask a glyph, contribute it himself if he's in a hurry (orif it's a low priority glyph for everyone else) or even fork DejaVu for his ownprivate uses. For example, if your country is defining a new currency symbol you
don't have to wait years for Bitsream to notice it.For this reason alone FOSS project should push DejaVu over any other projectwhich didn't bother building a contribution ecosystem. The situation is no
longer the same it was some years ago. We don't have to beg and accept "somewhatfree" anymoreRegards,--Nicolas Mailhot___gnome-i18n mailing list
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