hi all ,
seems like the activity on the list as gone down these days . So I
will like to the
make some noise . I was thinking about the internationlization and
localization
of GRASS and I think for that we have to i18n and l10n the GUI interface
of
GRASS , since TK is not supporting the unicode standard etc so should
we write the interface in GTK , it will make it look cool , as good as
any other
GUI util .
Or since XML things in GRASS are beginning to look beautiful now should
we go for
an XML based (XUL I mean) gui , which I think will work propery accross
the plat forms .
(even mac people will be happy)
What say people , it is high for the internationlization and
localization of darling GRASS.
somesh
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Somesh Agarwal wrote:
hi all ,
seems like the activity on the list as gone down these days . So I
will like to the
make some noise . I was thinking about the internationlization and
localization
of GRASS and I think for that we have to i18n and l10n the GUI interface
of
GRASS , since TK is not supporting the unicode standard etc so should
we write the interface in GTK , it will make it look cool , as good as
any other
GUI util .
Or since XML things in GRASS are beginning to look beautiful now should
we go for
an XML based (XUL I mean) gui , which I think will work propery accross
the plat forms .
(even mac people will be happy)
What say people , it is high for the internationlization and
localization of darling GRASS.
I suggest that we use Python and wxPython who already support
internationalization with unicode and gettext. We also get the
benefit to support Windows without extra. See the WEB sites
to get more information.
Python : http://www.python.org/
wxPython : http://wxpython.org/
wxWindows (the GUI of wxPython) : http://wxwindows.org/
Some GRASS developers are already using Python (some XML).
Python is a scripting language similar to TCL (but more powerfull)
and wxPython is a GUI base on wxWindows which is multiplaform.
wxWindows is a layer of GUI abstraction implemented over GTK,
Motif, Windows and Mac (with delay).
somesh
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