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Free Software In Iran, KDE In Farsi

Posted by timothy on from the pretty-screenshots dept.

Elektroschock writes "KDE, the leading *nix desktop environment, is translated to Farsi (=Persian). Now native language KDE can be used in Iran as well. Farsi is written from left to right. Full story at Dot KDE. Arash Zeini (KDE Farsi) wrote an intresting article about FLOSS in Iran. His view: "It is not a secret anymore that FLOSS is gaining momentum all over the world. We witness an international move and acceptance of FLOSS in the private as well as in the public sector."" Update: 12/29 16:37 GMT by T : That should read "Farsi is written from right to left." (Thanks to Thomas Zander for pointing that out.)

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  1. Grrr... FLOSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Damnit, stupid Americans, FLOSS... Grrr...

  2. Re:suck it GNAA and Trollkore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Trollkore? More like Troll BORE

  3. great by GoatPigSheep · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Now everyone in Iran has the proper tools to spread anti-American propaghanda to each other and organize terror cells...

    Praise Allah and open source!

    --
    GoatPigSheep, the 3 most important food groups
  4. Re:suck it GNAA and Trollkore by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  5. Re:KDE aiding terrorists? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Hello. Did you know Chali is a disgusting whore? Please surf over to Stile's Stileproject.com to see her latest pornographic material. This bitch disgusts me in her lasivious lifestyle. All day she hungers for sex and masturbates and in general pollutes the human condition. Redeem yourself at #teens4christ. Thanks for reading this.

  6. Re:what is FLOSS by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  7. Re:After watching the Austin Powers movies... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  8. Re:How to make a system bilingual? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  9. Re:Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  10. Re:Correction by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

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  11. Re:what is FLOSS by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I was expecting something more like this.

  12. Re:MOD PARENT DOWN by hdparm · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Is that so, shithead? Did he become famous troll with his first or second /. post? Or perhaps this one?

  13. Leading desktop? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    NEW! Revised and updated!

    $Revision: 1.33 $ $Date: 2003/12/28 23:45:12 $

    The State Of KDE

    We have seen a lot of important news regarding the KDE project over recent weeks, so it is worth pausing to consider the ramifications.

    Let us start with the recent acquisition of SUSE by Novell. SUSE was the biggest Linux distributor (though still dwarfed by Red Hat) to use KDE as its default desktop. SUSE has, for many years, neglected to package the GNOME desktop properly or even do basic Q&A... much to the delight of KDE fanatics. Now, however, Novell has purchased the SUSE Linux distribution and Ximian, a company best known for the producing the most polished and professional desktop available for Linux (GNOME-based). The obvious conclusion to be drawn from these actions is that KDE is about to lose its main commercial support.

    Let us take a look at some of the reasons why this is so:

    • GNOME has always been the commercial desktop of choice. It has long been focussed on getting the basics right and building from there... as opposed to the KDE Project, which is entirely aimed at pleasing the slashdot peanut gallery with pointless eye-candy. KDE features are thrown into the mix with little or no regard for usability, or even good taste. The end result is disasterous, as can be seen by anyone unforunate enough to be forced into using it.
    • KDE is extremely expensive to develop for, unless you intend to produce GPL software. TrollTech, the owners of KDE and Qt, license the X11 version of their Qt toolkit under the GPL. This forces anyone wanting to develop applications built on top of Qt and KDE to be either (L)GPL licensed, or pay for a TrollTech Qt commercial license; costing $3000* for every developer working on the application (per annum.) -- 10 developers: $30,000, and that is just to license the toolkit. No extra development tools and such... just the right to use it. You may find this difficult to believe, but developing for KDE is more expensive than developing for Microsoft Windows!

      * The $3000 figure is just for Linux. If you want to develop for the Mac, Linux and Windows the amount reaches a staggering $6000 per developer.
    • TrollTech is also vulnerable to takeover by companies hostile to Free software and good corporate lawyers who can blow holes in the laughable FreeQt agreements.
    • Qt's/KDE lack of accessiblity. Accessiblity is vital feature for a modern desktop. A desktop cannot be sold to the U.S. government unless it supports the features necessary for disabled users to make full use of it. The lack of said feature effectively cuts it off from the biggest software purchaser of all. GNOME has spent the last 18 months and more doing the ground-work and developing/polishing the accessiblity of the GNOME desktop (thanks to the fine work of Sun engineers). KDE has spent the time making *fake* translucent menus to help make impressive screenshots. Over the next few months you can expect increasing numbers of near-orgasmic announcements of weak accessiblity support from the KDE project, as the full extent of their folly and just how far they are behind GNOME finally becomes obvious to them. The end result will be, as with all KDE features, half-assed and broken -- designed only to function as a marketing feature tick-box filler. Note: The KDE project has begun announcing FULL accessiblity support thanks to using GNOME/GTK code, however (and as usual) the KDE developers are being disingenuous. Accessiblity is more than just toolkit support, it requires work to ensure that all aspects of the desktop are accessible, including auditing applications and (especially) custom widgets, themes and fundementally changing the thought processes of developers. THIS IS THE TIME CONSUMING PART... merely copying GNOME code into KDE/Qt and then posting stories to the morons at slashdot announcing full support is not enough. As predicted, KDE is preannouncing half-finished accessiblity features in a desperate effort to keep up wit
  14. GTK does Farsi, too by Lars+Clausen · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    One language option that my RedHat installation at work came with was Farsi. Just for kicks, I selected that, and most text was indeed little squiggly lines. To get actual work done, I changed back to English, though for unknown reason one bit of Farsi stuck around. So I still have a home directory called squiggle-squiggle-squiggle.

    -Lars

  15. Re:Farsi is Right to Left by 1u3hr · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    think your lecturer was displaying a bit of British language purism, Queen's English

    No, because what he advocates is NOT Queen's English.