+See also:
+
+ * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Ethiopian_Setup
+ * http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Amharic_language
+
== sysconfig ==
To enable the Amharic Ethiopian locale, the /etc/sysconfig/i18n
move this setting to a later point in the boot process.
olpc-dm would be a good candidate.
-AI: I'm going to make some tests and report back.
-
+ * TODO: I'm going to make some tests and report back.
+ * DONE: LANG=C in /etc/sysconfig/i18n, LANG=am_ET.UTF-8 later on
== glibc ==
the build-locale-archive tool tries to use a shared writable
file map which is not supported.
-The glibc-2.6 rpm is available from bernie-olpc.
+The glibc-2.6 rpm is available from OlpcBernieRepo.
- * AI: Of course we don't want to upgrade to 2.6 at this time, so I'm asking the glibc hackers for insight.
+ * DONE: Of course we don't want to upgrade to 2.6 at this time, so I'm asking the glibc hackers for insight.
+ * DONE: http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5033
== Fonts ==
I grabbed the TTF file from the Debian package ttf-sil-abyssinica-1.0
and temporarily installed it in /home/olpc/.fonts/
-I'm not sure the font license is acceptable for Fedora or even us.
-Someone with better understanding should check.
-
- * AI: I could easily create an RPM once we decide this is the font we want to use.
-
+ * DONE: abyssinica-fonts RPM package is in Fedora, and tagged for OLPC-2.
== ET keyboard layout ==
has already fixed it upstream and we'll pick it up with
the next update.
- * AI: I'll send a new olpc patch upstream to resync
-
- * AI: I'll update our RPM from a CVS snapshot of xkeyboard-config
-
+ * DONE: Send a new olpc patch upstream to resync
+ * DONE: I'll update our RPM from a CVS snapshot of xkeyboard-config
+ * DONE: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12202
== libX11 ==
Sergey's Compose file for am_ET is already upstream, and it
is required for XIM-baded composition to work in all applications.
-I prepared an updated RPM and staged in OlpcBernie.
+I prepared an updated RPM and staged in OlpcBernieRepo.
Even with this new RPM installed, XIM does not appear to work in
Abiword and other utilities I tried.
by a consonant, which seems to be a less convenient way
of producing glyphs (see below)
- * AI: Sergey said he'll check if CONSONANT+VOWEL is possible with XIM.
+ * DONE: Sergey said he'll check if CONSONANT+VOWEL is possible with XIM.
== GTK IM ==
I couldn't get it to work with the "et" keyboard loaded.
Daniel says it shouldn't happen.
- * AI: waiting for a patch. Progress is being tracked here:
- http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101360
+ * TODO: waiting for a patch. Progress is being tracked here:
+ http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101360
== Write.activity ==
upstream. Without this fix, the IM is still usable, but
very unfriendly.
- * AI: I will file the bug upstream.
+ * TODO: I will file the bug upstream.
+ * FIXME: http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=11190
+ * DONE: pinged the above bug...
+ * DONE: twice...
== Other Gtk applications ==
-I tried installing gedit on an XO, and I couldn't get
-neither the Amharic, nor the XIM input methods to work
-with it.
+I tried installing gedit on an XO, and I couldn't get neither the
+Amharic, nor the XIM input methods to work with it.
Works fine on F7.
- * AI: Needs investigation.
+ * TODO: Needs investigation.
== Misc issues ==
I've seen activities crashing randomly and funny rendering
problems.
- * AI: Before we even start filing bugs on this, I'd prefer to
- see some of the above components land in the builds, otherwise
- we might be chasing bugs that are even harder to reproduce.
+ * TODO: Before we even start filing bugs on this, I'd prefer to
+ see some of the above components land in the builds, otherwise
+ we might be chasing bugs that are even harder to reproduce.
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