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KDE 2.0 final & the Israeli aspect



Hi All,

Well, as you may know or not know - KDE 2.0 final will be out tonight.

Mandrake users, SuSE 7.0 users, Slackware users, and Caldera 2.4 users can 
download the packages right now from: 

ftp://ftp.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/kde/stable/2.0

Redhat users will have to wait for the RPM's - as usual :)) - they are being 
uploaded as I write this email..

Please note - if you're installing those rpm's - your KDE 1.x configurations 
and applications will not be running - unless you grab the sources and 
compile them, and set the variables accordingly (QTDIR, KDEDIR, PATH, 
LD_LIBRARY_PATH, etc - read the docs!)

Also, if you're compiling and installing - you'll need to spend some times to 
install the help as it requires doc++ and other stuff - so be prepared for 
some fun :)

If you're planning to use https connection - then you'll need OpenSSL 0.9.6 
installed on your machine - it supports all the standard SSL/SSH connections 
(I tried it on many Israeli and US sites and it works)

Hebrew: 
* For viewing Logical and Visual pages - you'll need true type font's - elmar 
fonts look specially ugly (no offense Eli - I know that what you could 
release as free) so you'll need some fonts from your Windows partition and 
add them to your Linux (I'm not going to explain how to do it - as always - 
RTFM).

* If you want to use the hebrew menus - you'll need to replace the fonts.dir 
which redhat (if you use redhat) creates and create another one fonts.dir and 
fonts.alias with Tzafrir's script (Tzafrir? could u republish the URL please? 
I'm moving to KMail and I got a mess here). Don't forget to remove the 
directory from with the chkfontpath and adding it again - and restarting the 
xfs (stop and start - restart doesn't seem to work)

* Pages like walla will look "????" if you don't select from the encoding the 
ISO-8859-8-i or the CP1255 encoding. For visual pages - select the ISO-8859-8 
(like Haaretz, IOL, Tapuz, Internet Zahav etc..)

* There are some glitches here and there - specially with numbers and "makaf" 
near them - they look in reverse. Known problem which will be fixed any day 
now. Also, Walla lower part of the main page is alligned to the left - known 
problem. There are other known problems which are being taken care of and 
hopefully will be fixed by the time KDE 2.0.1 will be out (which will be 
around 1 month from now) - but 90% of the web  pages looks great in Hebrew

* Hebrew keys - acking problem. I asked lots of times if someone could move 
his/her butt and write a small text file how to switch - no body volunteered 
to do that. tuff luck. In case someone is still interested - KDE 2.0 got this 
hack called kxkb which is a "front end" to xkb...

I would like to thank the following people for helping:

* Lars Knoll - from QT (Trolltech) who has worked day and night to add Hebrew 
support.
* Tzafrir Cohen - for the hebrew efforts he did and does make..
* Aduva - my employee - for giving me such a great job and for letting me 
help as much as I can for the Linux community in Israel.
* And for all the others who helped me and the other users...

THANKS ALL...

Hetz

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