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On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 1:24 pm, Philip S Tellis wrote:
On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Amit Upadhyay wrote:
interface, excellant documentation and responsive mailing list. Gnome is just a hack on what was a small toolkit for GIMP.
bbbut... it's prettier....
Depends. Mandrake's Galaxy theme, with decent fonts looks pretty nice on my PC. And then there are eye candies like Karamba and Super-Karamba for KDE. Give it a fair chance, and you may start to get the feeling of what I mean.
Na na na.. See, QT [and hence KDE] started support for Indic scripts last month only, before that there was no way [short of ugly IndiX hack] to render them correctly. Gnome's pango did support hindi for a longer time, and
and still you say that KDE is better?
That ugly hack was for both KDE and Gnome [actually for X itself]. Besides, displaying indic scripts properly is difficult, look at the screen shots of Gnome translation site at www.indlinux.com, and compare them with those of QT's implementation, you will find QT much better there. Would like to see how windows does it.
http://www.indlinux.org/hindi/gnome/22images/gedit3.jpg vs http://trolls.troll.no/lars/konqueror_hindi.png
Ofcourse Gnome will get it right in due course, but then, I appreciate QTs approach of giving quality more waitage than mere features. [Stands true for KDE as witnessed by delay in their KDE 3.1 release, to accomodate bug fixes after security audit]
Anyways, what matters now is translation and availability of content in Hindi. After all this is what our president wants :) [http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=35147]
- -- Amit Upadhyay Senior Undergraduate Student Department of Mechanical Engg. Indian Institute of Technology Bombay Mumbai-76, India Phone: (91) 9820325940