[Debian-hebrew-common] Debian-Hebrew web site need revision

[debian-hebrew-common at lists.alioth.debian.org]

At this time debian-hebrew is aimed at making a Debian system easy to
setup for Hebrew use. We do not deal with programming documentation, and
probably never will do that as part of this project. We are short on
manpower as it is.

The user-he package in the repository will convert your system to hebrew
properly and will add the keyboard shortcuts needed, it's as simple as
it gets.

Though we might need to document what combination we set it to use :-)

Baruch

debian-hebrew-common at lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> As an english (and hebrew) speaking  debian user, 
> I find it was hard to learn to do hebrew on debian, 
> 
> I feel that it is unnecessarily difficult to learn how to do it.
> 
> It was also hard to learn how to develop a hebrew
> application. 
> 
> I am currently developing a hebrew application using gtk2-perl and it was a 
> long time till I understood how to write text in hebrew and to get the  
> unicode displayed.
> 
> i can now write using gedit and kedit and save the files. I can use 
> textwidgets in gtk2-perl to take in and display text. 
> 
> but it was much to hard to learn it. a good web site that has basics like that 
> is important.
> 
> Why - when i write  to friends using kmail - do they say to me that the 
> subject headers are in hebrew, while the body of the mail they receive from 
> me is in hieroglyphics?
> 
> i have difficulty developing - i still cant even switch easily between hebrew 
> and english keyboard - I still must use the icon on my  kde desktop while i 
> would like to do alt-shift or something. I find the thread here
> 
> http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/archives/linux-il/06-2005/index.html#16062
> 
> entitled: 
> Keyboard shortcut to switching languages in Fedora 4 - is it possible? Amir 
> Binyamini (Sat 25 Jun 2005 - 22:29:07 IDT)
> 
> very cryptic:
> 
> read that thread - people allude  to what can be done - but no one gives a 
> clear recipe that works for kde desktop for instance. 
> 
> I am mystified by the  
> Xkb options tab in the keyboard layout of control center? what do i select. I 
> randomly try things and then every  time i move my mouse the icon switches 
> between hebrew   and english - at just the wrong time! suddenly my own new 
> application is only able to take english input while it should only be in 
> hebrew!
> 
> help!
> 
> Mitchell Laks, New York