Katoob, the baby has a new father.
This post has a bit of my history and emotions. It can be skipped!
The summary is: Katoob has a new maintainer.
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I love KDE. It just works!
I have 2 laptops. My personal one at home and my work one at the office. Both are running testing. A month or two ago, I did a dist-upgrade on the home one. Later on I rebooted (DUH!) it for a reason I can't remember just to end up with very tiny fonts under GNOME. It took me some time to tweak them back again and play with the GNOME anti-aliasing dialog. Now if you know me well, you know that the last thing someone should do to me is to touch my font settings. I have a very sensitive eye (Because I have a very low vision) and I hardly tweak the fonts. All went somehow fine after that. Problem is I wasn't sure whether it was fglrx or GNOME who's responsible for that.
More packages for Chinook.
I was trying to package hunspell-ar for Chinook so I ended up packaging:
* hunspell (libhunspell and its development headers)
* enchant (hunspell and ispell providers but I'll disable ispell soon)
* hunspell-ar
* dictionaries-common and dictionaries-common-dev (hunspell-ar depends on them)
As for dictionaries-common and dictionaries-common-dev, they are different than the Debian ones. Yes I'm using the same source but I'm only providing the bits related to myspell. I didn't include the policy too.
uri = ftp://foolab.org/pub/apt
dist = chinook
components = spellhim-arabic is also available as well as a few Arabic fonts:
uri = ftp://foolab.org/pub/apt
dist = chinook
components = arabichildon input method and new languages...
I noticed this because of my work on him-arabic.
If your plugin provides a language other than the 16 "known" languages, It will be displayed as " ()".
Ideally, The fix should be somewhere else but not all of the components are open so even if I can fix it, I won't be able to publish patches or packages.
It seems that the source provided with the SDK is a bit outdated so I had to grab the latest trunk: https://stage.maemo.org/svn/maemo/projects/haf/trunk/hildon-input-method/
And here's a patch. It'll return the language code if it fails to get the language description. (I know it's a bit hackish :|):
diff -Naur him.orig/src/hildon-im-languages.c him/src/hildon-im-languages.c
--- him.orig/src/hildon-im-languages.c 2007-12-14 19:09:29.000000000 +0200
+++ him/src/hildon-im-languages.c 2007-12-14 19:12:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -82,7 +82,18 @@
}
if (translate_function)
{
- return (*translate_function) (lang);
+ gchar *res = (*translate_function) (lang);
+ if (!res) {
+ return res;
+ }
+ else if (!strcmp(res, " ()")) {
+ g_free(res);
+ res = g_strdup(lang);
+ return res;
+ }
+ else {
+ return res;
+ }
} else
{
gchar path [sizeof(GCONF_TRANSLATION_STATIC_PATH) + MAX_LANG_LENGTH];Apply, build the packages and install hildon-input-method_1.99.33-2_armel.deb and libhildon-im-ui3_1.99.33-2_armel.deb
I hope it will be fixed otherwise I'll be providing packages soon. I know I promised to provide a lot of things (-:
Have a nice weekend.
My Arabic related TODO list for maemo
This is my Arabic related TODO list for maemo. It's my personal one not the Nokia employee one :-)
* katoob should be fully functional (I'm learning here). Actually I did more work today and I guess it's fine.
* Package and publish some Arabic fonts (I know there's one provided by the browser team).
* See what can be done regarding input (Low priority. Sorry to say that I don't like the HIM plugin interface).
* Check arabeyes.org apps. Is there anything useful and needs "porting" ?
* glibc/x11 Arabic locale ?
* Any suggestions ?
I'll not translate the UI for 3 reasons:
* I'm not of a translator.
* The license you agree to while downloading the OS image prevents me from doing that.
* Because we are using logical IDs in the code, we will f*** up the UI unless all of the strings are translated.
Hello, Planet\n
Thanks to all the people volunteering their time for Debian and FOSS, to my sponsors, to anyone who gave me a tip and to those involved in the NM process.
I'm now a proud DD!
So yesterday.
* A month since I've been here in Finland and started working for Nokia
* I've got my creditcard PIN code in the morning (From the nordea bank suckers). At last they accepted my application but they decided to send the card to the wrong branch. 7 minutes on the phone to convince them to send it to another branch. It takes them also 2-3 days to send it to another branch!
* My debian.org account has been created and NOW I'm at last an official Debian Developer (Technically, this happened on the 14th. An hour ago ;-))
Yay, My Debian AM report is out.
Marc Brockschmidt, my Application Manager wrote it at last :-)
Thanks to all the cool people out there who helped me!
The spammer or a DoS attack ? Doesn't really matter.
So, I'm still a hardcore GNU/Linux administrator after all ?!
Apache "The webserver" is down. Looks like the master process gets killed by the kernel. That's weird.
Now what's interesting is the dmesg output:
On Gentoo.
Gentoo is a GNU/Linux distro characterized by building all your software from the source code, Gentoo users often claim how much speed boost they got, Forgetting the long time they had to spend building the software. They also like to use weired optimization flags when they build the software resulting in breakage of the system.
