After a long delay I can finally write something down.
I applied the CUPS patch to the stable CUPS source ( with a few failed chunks applied by hand ). I then proceeded to test it by printing to a .ps file ( I haven't a printer ). Then to my astonishment I had no program that could view PostScript. I thought okay little oversight. I pulled out ImageMagick and ggvfrom my archive. They both needed ghostscript. I pulled espgs. It wouldn't compile. BLOCK. I tried to test the new gimp-print with gimp-2 but couldn't get it to work. BLOCK. The whole printing issue is really messy everything is dependent on everything. It's a chicken and egg problem. BLOCK. After all this frustration I decided to compile gnome 2.6 libs to have a look at programs dependent on them. It was an easy pleasant compile and I was rewarded with sodipodi, gnome-alsa-mixer, gtranslator, and gucharmap.
Not bad, eh. I am sure there are more nifty programs out there that I overlooked in my strict gtk-2 only searches.
It's good to be back.
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sodi podi ain't gnome?!
and besides inkscape has a more friendly interface.
cheers,
Alaa
"u know i once dream that the office of mobinil is from el 7`os :S and the one that answer u and tell u rasidak a girl called ghada"
Yes that's correct
Yes I did notice that while compiling, I just connected sodipodi to gnome because I compiled them together ( shame on me ).
I think I had inkscape source lying around somewhere, I'll give it a try. I also get scribus to compile but it looks like it never heard of arabic. Gimp-Print is now working, I just have to get a decent ghostscript tarball to get going on this priniting issue. I haven't viewed the ps output file untill now. lol how Ironic.
inkscape
inkscape beta suports arabic.