claire
Uploaded by
14 SLIDES
303 VUES
140LIKES

Advancing Indian Language Desktop: Components, Status, and Future Directions

DESCRIPTION

Discover the essentials of an Indian Language Desktop (ILD), exploring crucial components such as input methods, keyboard layouts, handwriting recognition, and GUI in local languages. Learn about the current status of technologies like Gtk, GNOME, Qt, and KDE, and understand ongoing efforts for effective rendering, printing, and documentation in various Indian languages. Join the movement to enhance ILD by participating in local teams, contributing to application development, translations, and more. Your role can shape the future of computing in Indian languages.

1 / 14

Télécharger la présentation

Advancing Indian Language Desktop: Components, Status, and Future Directions

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Indian Language Desktop G. Karunakar, IndLinux.org

  2. Agenda What makes an Indian Language Desktop the components Current status (Gtk, GNOME) Qt, KDE Mozilla OpenOffice People/Teams behind it. Still todo How you can help Future directions

  3. What makes ILD ? • Input • Keyboard • Handwriting/Speech recognition • Output • Screen display ( fonts, rendering ) • Printing • GUI in local language • Online Help / Documentation • Usage • Print, email, web, chat

  4. What makes ILD (2)? • What prevented it • Lack of standards (or following them) • Proprietry implementations • Adhoc solutions. • What makes it • Using standards – Unicode, Opentype fonts • Using Opensource s/w & tools • Volunteer efforts

  5. Components

  6. Status - GNOME • Gtk Indic rendering through Pango • OpenType fonts available • UI translation in progress • Hindi , Bengali, Malayalam, Tamil, Kannada • Gujarati, Marathi • Help docs todo • Apps: Evolution, Balsa, Gaim, Nautilus • Printing problems – work in progress

  7. Status - KDE • Good Unicode support • Qt Indic support • Bengali, Devanagari, & others • KDE translations • Tamil • Hindi • Printing works • KDE 3.2 with full Indic support

  8. Mozilla • Basic unicode support • Unicode+PUA font support • Prabhat Hegde • Indic rendering through Pango • Dhananjay Joshi, Prabhat Hegde, Jungshik Shin • No native Opentype support • Hindi - www.bttlindia.com/mozilla/ • Tamil - www.thamizha.com/developer/

  9. OpenOffice • OpenOffice 1.1 has Indic support • CTL option to be enabled • Printing works • OpenOffice Hindi, Tamil • trinetra.ncb.ernet.in/bharateeyaoo • Need spellchecker, dictionary

  10. Language teams • IndLinux group - www.indlinux.org • Hindi, Punjabi, Oriya, Telugu • Ankur group - www.bengalinux.org • Indictrans - www.indictrans.org • Gujarati, Marathi • Kannada - kannada.sf.net • Swatantra Malayalam Computing • smc.sarovar.org • Tamil - www.tamillinux.org

  11. Other teams • Indic Opentype fonts • HBCSE TIFR • FSF India. • Mozilla Team - www.mozilla.org/l10n/ • OpenOffice • hi.openoffice.org • IIT Madras – tenet.res.in/Donlab/IndLinux • Indix team - rohini.ncst.ernet.in/indix • Indic-Computing - indic-computing.sf.net

  12. How you can help? • Create awareness in your LUG • Join one of the teams • Form l10n groups in your area • Areas of help • Application development • I18nizing applications • Translations • Fonts design • Testing, collecting user feedback

  13. Future KDE localization Spell checkers Translation database Indic content management tools IndLinux distro

  14. Contacts IndLinux website - www.indlinux.org Wiki - www.indlinux.org/wiki IRC - #indlinux on irc.gimp.org Email - karunakar@indlinux.org , indlinux@users.sourceforge.net

More Related