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Re: GDK/GTK 1.2 with hebrew support
Dov Grobgeld writes:
> Already now there is plenty that could be done. The reflected gtk
> widgets should be enough for patching a gtk-based mail agent (e.g.
> Balsa, and the author of Balsa is all for it) to support visual
> mode Hebrew email. Simple irc and icq support could easily be
> inserted as well. It is more or less a question of ripping out the
> standard gtk text and entry widgets and inserting the reflected ones
> instead. I don't have time to do this, but perhaps someone else does?
I have a strange idea. The text and entry widgets are created by
calling the appropriate GTK function by the application, right? So
what if we make an .so library that overrides these functions and
makes them create the Hebrew widgets instead, and then LD_PRELOAD that
library into any GTK application? Theoretically this should allow us
to Hebrewfy any GTK application on the fly without recompilation. Is
there anything that will stop this from working?
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