Re: PGI anaconda and d-i
>Arash Bijanzadeh wrote:
>> > > > Hi all,
>> > > > I need a graphical installer that could support the i18n and RTL. It
>
>> > In the context of i18n, Right To Left.
>> Exactly!
>
>> > A GTK+ 2 based installer would handle this automatically.
>> Yes, but it seems d-i guyes ignored the gtk+ frontend :(
>
>I don't think so. Michael Cardenas created a GTK frontend for the
>debian-installer[1]. However, more important is basis work on the
>core installer. Once it is running sufficiently more power could
>be used to check whether the graphical installer actually works as
>expected.
>
>So, the first priority is the text-based installer.
>
>It would probably help if some people would work on integrating
>the graphical installer in parallel to the core work, though.
>
>Regards,
>
> Joey
Ok, I should probably speak up at this point :-)
I've been working on RTL patches for d-i, and testing the graphical installer.
The patches need some work and testing by people who
speak those languages; they'll be commited to CVS (on a branch) once its open
again, along with some initial translations to Arabic and Farsi.
(The changes include a fribidi lib udeb, and changes to Newt and
cdebconf modules).
There have also been slight changes to the gtk-libdirectfb
udeb, to fix a FTBFS since dependencies change. However Framebuffer support
is not guaranteed to work on all platforms: there were discussions about moving
to tinyX (sp?) instead.
However I've not gone that far - I'm just testing RTL support
ATM.
Beannacht,
Alastair McKinstry
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