Re: Translations, GNOME and KDE

[Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu peacefulaction org>]

Kenneth Rohde Christiansen wrote:
> I don't know if I am right or not, but it seems like the KDE project is
> promoting it's language support a lot more that the GNOME project. This
> might just be because KDE has a large user base in multi-lingual Europe,
> but I am sure we can do more on the PR side. 
> 
> This could attract more users and more translators as well :-)
> 

Hmm - a major advantage that GNOME had was the support for Indic 
languages. QT 3.2 has support for rendering Indic scripts. However, the 
input of Indic scripts seems to be somewhat wierd in QT (I was testing 
QT 3.3.0b1).
In the GNOME world, GTK-IM modules are really useful in some cases (I 
helped someone implement a Bengali desktop system which had to be used 
over VNC - and GTK-IM proved to be the most hassle free method of 
handling the input)
On the other hand, gnome-print cannot print Indic languages, and that is 
turning out to be a really bad show stopper - I was testing the KDE 3.2 
printing system yesterday, and it printed all the Indic stuff properly.

-sdg-



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