Re: [linuxiran] (Farsi)KDE & Mac OS X

[Arash Zeini]

On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:43, Aryan Ameri wrote:

> On Tuesday 20 January 2004 06:10, Arash Zeini wrote:
> > Thanks to Ali for submitting these pics.
>
> The Kword pic was nothing extraordinary, I had seen Kword running on Mac
> OS X before, and although it's beta, it seems usable. But the second
> screenshot is really interesting for me, because it doesn't show just
> Konqueror, but also Safari, complete with Farsi menu. I know that
> Safari (Mac OS X new browser) is using khtml as it's engine, but it's
> interface and GUI is completely different from Konqueror as you can
> see. So how come it is also translated to Farsi? I know that we haven't
> done the translation, so someone should have translated Safari to
> Farsi. Who?

Ali Ahadi is working on translationg Safari to Farsi.

>
> I am really dumb-fonded. How come safari is in Farsi?
>
> If you really think about it from my point of view, by translating KDE
> to Farsi, we havent' just created a Farsi environment for Linux, but
> also for nearly every Unix. Inclusing OS X. Now all "other" operating
> systems have better Farsi support than Windows!!! Truly interesting.
>
> The downside of this screenshot? That the Qt widgets aren't really
> polished. Compare Kword with Safari, Qt widgets just look foreign,
> although it's running natively. TrollTech should really update Qt for
> Mac soon, because currently Qt applications don't look like Mac
> applications at all. And experience has shown that Mac users are very
> sensitive about user interface, an application which doesn't look like
> the rest of the platform, and has a foreign look, never becomes popular
> among Mac users.
>
> PS: Arash I think you should add these screenshots to the screenshot
> section of farsikde.org They may be interesting for many (remember that
> still there are far more Mac users than Linux users).

I will do.

Greetings,
Arash
>
> Cheers

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