[Fedora-i18n-list] Configuring default font
by Ali Majdzadeh
Hello All
Sorry, if my question is elementary. I have installed Persian fonts. Is
there a way to configure the system to use a special font as the system
default font? I can view and edit text using installed fonts, but I don't
know how I can specify a font to be the default one. (For example, in
desktop environments or widgets' captions.)
Best Regards
Ali
16 years, 3 months
Volunteer Needed: fedora-i18n-list Admin
by Warren Togami
Anyone here want to be a list admin for fedora-i18n-list?
I would prefer to give list ownership to someone who is already a
developer within the Fedora Project. When accepted you will become
co-owner of this list along with Jens Petersen.
Warren Togami
wtogami(a)redhat.com
16 years, 6 months
Self Introduction - Where Do I Start?
by Mustafa Qasim
Hello to all folks there ...well Mustafa here from Pakistan. I am doing my
Bachelor's in software engineering right now. I started using Linux a year
ago when I did a system and network administration course on RHL 9. After
that I didn't got any chance to do something more with Linux. After that I
get familiarized with the Open Source theory and truly I loved it, so that's
y I chose JAVA for jumping into professional programming career INSTEAD of
'.NET' bcoz i want to move on further with Linux.
I m using FC 6 right now n when I came here I loved to c u all doing great
work here. I would also like to be a part of FC community but didn't know
where to start. I would love to work on Fedora documentation OR
internationalization project for URDU language support in Fedora but as
being a newbie at town I didn't know that how much knowledge is required to
get on work in a particular project.
I will love to hear whatever you have to share for me. I will be more then
happy to get advice or comments or suggestions from u folks there. :)
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Mustafa Qasim
Lahore, Pakistan
Cell: 0321-6614972
URL: http://www.mustu.info
16 years, 8 months
Re: problem while sending gpg key to mit key server
by Mustafa Qasim
Hello! All folks there. I need some help in completing my joining process. I
am stuck at the "Sending gpg key to mit key server" point. I am starting the
story from start because this time I am including some other group's address
in TO field.
I studied the Joining Check list page and perform the tasks given there.
1)Introduced my self a couple of days ago.
2) Created the ssh key
3) Created the gpg key
(Take a backup of both ~/.ssh and ~/.gnupg directories)
4) Created the Bugzilla account
5) Tried to sent the gpg key to mit server thjrough the command given in the
Check list
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --send-keys GPGKEYID
But at this stage it gives connection time out error. I went to
gpg.mit.edu through firefox and read that we can also submit the key
by pasting the ASCII of our key on their page. But i couldn't extract
the ASCII by the export command
gpg --export --armor alajal(a)gmail.com > mykey.txt
it returns
gpg: WARNING: nothing exported
So please help me to get out of this problem.
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Mustafa Qasim
Lahore, Pakistan
Cell: 0321-6614972
URL: http://www.mustu.info
16 years, 8 months
Yum and translations
by Dimitris Glezos
For anyone who worries about translations not existing for yum, Seth has posted
a blog entry about it, basically explaining the situation and happily requesting
patches:
http://skvidal.wordpress.com/2007/07/13/guilt-and-translations/
It's a low-hanging fruit for anyone who'd like to touch a bit of code and have a
high impact on our community, bringing a smile to a lot of our translators and
hence, users.
-d
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Dimitris Glezos
Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B
http://dimitris.glezos.com/
"He who gives up functionality for ease of use
loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous)
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16 years, 8 months
Technical discussions for L10n
by Dimitris Glezos
Hi all.
So we have some technical issues around l10n that don't fit in discussing them
at fedora-trans-list, because it's mostly occupied by translators and
non-technical people.
Most of these issues concern the enabling of localization, which is probably a
good definition for i18n. :) Two examples are the development and maintenance of
translate.fedoraproject.org, and transifex. We'd like for example to notify a
mailing list when a new bug is opened that concerns something technical that
affects all languages.
Maybe we should host these discussions on fedora-i18n-list instead of creating a
new one. It will not only keep things simple, but will also bring more people to
i18n-list. This is what GNOME does as well, which makes the two teams (i18n and
l10n) have clear scopes.
If we prefer to keep i18n-list oriented towards input methods, fonts etc, then
we could create a fedora-trans-devel one. I'm mostly worried that only 4-5
people will join it though.
-d
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"He who gives up functionality for ease of use
loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous)
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16 years, 8 months
Japanese input in Fedora-7 with en_US locale
by Dan Kenigsberg
Hi List,
I would like to be able to enter some Japanese text while working in en_US
locale. Back in FC4 I managed to do that by defining cryptic XIM environment
variables an linking ~/.xinit.d.
I did not understant what I was doing then, but it worked.
In F-7, if I choose Japanese locale at GDM, I can press Ctrl-Space and enter
Japanese text (thought it seems slower and less intuitive than what I had in
FC-4).
What should I do in order to have it while keeping my localization at en_US?
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Dan Kenigsberg http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~danken ICQ 162180901
16 years, 8 months
My GSoC project: Transifex
by Dimitris Glezos
Hey all.
I'm working on a system that has everything to do with our Fedora i18n, so it
would be great to start discussing it here. I'm sorry I delayed to do this, but
the picture wasn't really clear until now. I've sent a similar mail to this to
GNOME i18n, so that the team there is up2date on what I'm doing.
As some of you might already know, we're moving our l10n infrastructure from RH
to Fedora systems to better maintain systems etc. For more info, see:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastructure/RFR/ElvisMove
To make this a reality, we needed a new web frontend for statistics that will be
able to display statistics for many modules hosted in many repositories. We
quickly got a system up and running using GNOME's damned lies software at:
http://translate.fedoraproject.org/
So the problem is that Fedora Infrastructure supports all CVS, SVN, Mercurial
and git version control systems (VCS) for project hosting and also, some
Fedora-related modules are hosted out of the `*fedoraproject.org` space (*fpo).
But translators are only given access on `cvs.fpo`, so they can't commit files
to these remote systems.
The translator shouldn't care where the module is hosted, he just wants to send
a PO file in. Through GSoC 2007, I begun working on a system (transifex) that
will give them access to submit PO files to a remote VCS. Information about it
(together with an INSTALL file) can be found at:
https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/projects/transifex
The idea is that transifex will act as a proxy/mediator for translation commits.
A translator will login to the transifex instance running on a host like
`translate.fpo`, choose a module, a PO file to upload, and a destination file
and click "submit". The system will commit the file for him. Underneath this is
achieved by having the VCS admin create a user (eg. fedora-transifex) with a
dedicated SSH key, and give it write access to the specific modules accepting
translations. The transifex admin will then hook the repo and module up with the
system. Each commit will be done by the "fedora-transifex" user, and the actual
user's details (name, surname, email, fedora username) will be written in the
commit message and Changelog file. Transifex supports filaname filters, so even
if a module maintainer can't add ACLs to the repo, he can define them on the
transifex side; for example, .*/po/(LINGUAS|Changelog|.*po$).
The software is written in Turbogears and its architecture is similar to DL's.
Basically it's an add-on to the statistics, providing a web form for submission.
It's pretty easy to install it on Fedora and try it out, just follow the INSTALL
file.
I believe the whole project opens up some exciting opportunities for
translations. Small projects hosted outside of big ones now have a chance to get
some attention from translation communities without the requirement to relocate
their code. And also, two communities can collaborate better by providing
corrections to each other's modules. In the end, I see probably some mechanism
to approve translation landing from language maintainers or something, but this
is a bit in the future for now. :)
Since fedora-trans-list is mostly occupied by translators and not
developers/maintainers, I believe this list is a more appropriate place to host
discussions for the development of the tool and our whole infrastructure that
supports translations. It all falls in the category "Fedora i18n". :)
So, this is it. Any ideas, suggestions, comments, are welcome. Sorry for the
long email.
-d
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"He who gives up functionality for ease of use
loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous)
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Dimitris Glezos
Jabber ID: glezos(a)jabber.org, GPG: 0xA5A04C3B
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"He who gives up functionality for ease of use
loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous)
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16 years, 8 months
[Fedora-i18n-list] Call for a Fedora I18n meeting
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
We are thinking that it would be a good to have a meeting of
the Fedora I18n project to discuss various technical issues openly.
Some of the things to discuss include:
- installation package defaults
- input method desktop defaults and configuration (xinput/im-chooser)
- renaming of fonts-* to reflect upstream projects
- adding a IM package group?
If you are interested in joining this discussion please reply and let us
know when you would prefer the meetings and also any potential agenda
items. Obviously it is going to be hard to find a time that is good for
everyone all the time so we might try alternating between morning and
evening in East Asia to give people in other regions some chance to
participate also.
I would like to have the first meeting in #fedora-i18n on Freenode
this week.
Jens
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Jens Petersen
Fedora and Red Hat I18n
16 years, 9 months
[announcement] Fedora I18n IRC meeting
by Jens-Ulrik Petersen
We would have a first open meeting of the Fedora I18n Project
on IRC next week:
Place: #fedora-i18n on Freenode
Time: 2007-07-02 06:00 UTC [1]
Agenda:
- desktop input method install defaults and configuration
- i18n comps
- renaming of fonts-* to reflect upstream projects
- plans for next meeting
- open discussion
Jens
[1] $ date -d "2007-07-02 06:00 UTC" or
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?month=7&day=2&year=2...
Probably we will do the next meeting at a different time which will make
it easier for people in different timezones to join.
16 years, 9 months