Re: [RULE] introduction

[Vadim Plessky]

On Sunday 15 December 2002 20:56, Marco Fioretti wrote:
|  On Sun, Dec 15, 2002 16:15:22 at 04:15:22PM +0300, Vadim Plessky 
(address@hidden) wrote:
|  > Hi,
|  >
|  > I just recently subscribed to this list and would like to introduce
|  > myself. My name is Vadim Plessky and I am located in Moscow, Russia.
|
|  As already said privately, welcome aboard!
|
|  Another thing I already said to Vadim, which I feel the need to repeat
|  here, is that he's welcome *also* because he works on development of
|  KOffice (and other KDE components, right?)

I am not really write code for KOffice at a moment, but I was testing it 
extensively, and bugging, in addition to KDE, TrollTech, so that they patched 
Qt to get printing working for non-English languages.
What's very nice of KWord/KOffice is that you can print out from it, using 
Cyrillic/Russian , Greek, Macedonian, Serbian, and other languages based on 
Cyrillic alphabet.
I have to admit that I couldn't get Mozilla printing Russian web sites, and 
AFAIK printing of Cyrillic is not fixed in AbiWord (and GNumeric).

In year 2001: I did a lot of Konqueror testing (JS, DOM, CSS, standard 
conformance, testcases, etc.), and we closed a lot of bugs after all.
(I think I closed at least 400 or so during that period)
As of today, Konqueror is pretty stable (IMO), and doesn't need such 
"intensive" bug-fixing.
So, I have a chance to work on fonts & icons (and those are two areas where 
Linux/*BSD should improve, IMHO).
I was in font development/DTP business in 1991-1993, and haven't had a chance 
to work on this since 1993. Last year I re-started those efforts, and I hope 
to release good-looking fonts In a couple of months, speaking realistically.
This is kind of "strike back" from my side (to big fat companies), and are 
where I am competent and feel myself "at home". Linux obviously miss 
good-quality, *free* fonts, and Linux Desktop can't succeed without such 
fonts.
My interest in SVG is inspired, to certain extent, by unwillingness of 
GhostScript hackers to cooperate with Linux community, and in particular: 
GNOME and KDE environments.
I think you also know that GS is released first wit AFPL license (which is not 
free for distribution by Linux distros),a nd only 1year - 1.5 years later 
it's released as GNU GS.
I think at some moment we can replace  "print to PS" with "Print to SVG" 
approach, so that we would eleiminate ugly dependency on GhostScript 9and 
save disk space)

|
|  Specifically, I'm happy that regular "connections" are established
|  between supporters of "leanest and meanest" and those of "latest and
|  greatest" desktop environments: feedback can help us all to maximize
|  performances, and point out sub-optimal solutions wherever they are.
|

I think some of you would be interested to join XDG mailing list
(<address@hidden>, archives at: 
<https://listman.redhat.com/pipermail/xdg-list/> )

There is a very good, and coinstructive work on that list to make GNOME, KDE 
and ROX (file manager) inter-operable.
I hope Mozilla and OO would start to work togther with XDG guys (which are 
developers of GNOME, KDE and ROX), and this would result in better 
compatibility, and lower memory usage, for those apps/environments.


|       Ciao,
|               Marco Fioretti

Hope all this clarifies my ideas/thoughts on "minimalistic" approach and what 
should be areas for improvements in the future.

|
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-- 
Best Regards,

Vadim Plessky
SVG Icons * BlueSphere Icons 0.3.0 released
http://svgicons.sourceforge.net