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

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

Hi,

The user package is in alpha devel stage, we do not know what *WE*
want it to do.

You can apt-get an older version of it from the debian-hebrew
repository, here is
a tutorial about using the repository:
http://debian-hebrew.alioth.debian.org/tut-1/page-1.html

The current package use is here:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-hebrew/pkg/user-he/?rev=0&sc=0

The current hebrew-setting script is here:
http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-hebrew/pkg/user-he/trunk/scripts/hebrew-settings?op=file&rev=0&sc=0

What this scrip does:
1. set locale (and timezone)
2. set keyboard
3. set GNOME defaults

This script is GNOME oriented becouse I know gnome and not KDE,
updates to set KDE are welcome.

By, Kobi

On 11/27/05, debian-hebrew-common at lists.alioth.debian.org
<debian-hebrew-common at lists.alioth.debian.org> wrote:
> On Saturday 26 November 2005 07:44 pm,
> debian-hebrew-common at lists.alioth.debian.org wrote:
> > 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.
>
> thats a shame. i can take notes on what i do to help people, and give info on
> what i find helpful..
> >
> > 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.
> is there a web site at sourceforge describing what the user-he package does?
>
> apt-cache search user-he
> returns nothing here
> >
> > Though we might need to document what combination we set it to use :-)
>
> it would be helpful to me who is a power user of debian/ but an i18n newbie...
> could someone tell me how to use effectively the
> global/application/window switching options
>
> and the goal of the
> groups shift/lock behavior
> Xkb options. Let this be a test - maybe we can document this so an
> "average joe" or "average chaim"
>  can understand it.
> Mitchell Laks
>
>
>
> >
> > 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
> >
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