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Re: KDE - Hebrew (NOT)




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On Sat, 17 Jan 1998, Yannai A. Gonczarowski wrote:

> 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.

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. 

			Bye,

				-Yaron.