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Re: KDE - Hebrew (NOT)
Maybe I was not clear enough with my last letter, the problems are:
1) right aligning of text in menus.
2) menus pop-up to the left (the right edge of the menu is aligned
with the menu title).
3) submenus pop up to the left (file->new->from template...)
These are not supported by KDE. Fonts is not the issue here, since
there are standard X fonts for hebrew.
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> On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Yannai A. Gonczarowski wrote:
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> > I wrote the person in charge of translating KDE, and he said that
> > unfortunately, there is no support in Qt (the GUI library of KDE) for
> > right-to-left, so there's no way to translate KDE to hebrew, right now.
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> So apps can't work in Hebrew, for now. I'm sure Qt allows you to have text
> fields be right or left justified, and writing a program to reverse text
> is pretty easy. I don't know where KDE gets it's fonts, though. Maybe we
> should ask the people doing GNOME. As far as I know, KDE can't really be
> distributed with major distributions because of licensing restrictions in
> the Qt library. GNOME uses gtk, which (strangely enough) doesn't have that
> problem. On the other hand, KDE works whereas I haven't got GNOME to even
> compile yet.
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> Bye,
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> -Yaron.
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