For those who are #NewHere, I'd like share another aspect of #mastodon that brought many of us here much before the current wave. Mastodon is Free Software (sometimes called as Open Source or Free and Open Source Software). It means anyone is Free to use, study, modify and share the software. This means we are not dependent on any single entity (person, company, country...) and we can be self-reliant.
Some of you may think freedom to modify software is useful only for techies. I'd like share the story of #scribus, a page layout software replacement to Adobe PageMaker and InDesign. This software only supported English and other Latin languages initially. Then a programmer from Oman, Fahad Amar Salim All Saidi added support for #Arabic with funding from Oman government. Along with Arabic, this change brought support for all Indian languages. #FreeSoftware
It should; I didn't interfere much with the working setup I had (it was on Mac OSX).
@mujeebcpy it is
@akshay and joice (is he here ?) They can give more insight
@mujeebcpy @akshay @wyatwerp @praveen
As of March2019 we @smc got this done https://blog.smc.org.in/malayalam-support-in-lyx/amp/
Trying to build this. there was a name mismatch in qt5 library. took lot of time to figure it out. now stuck at
`configure: error: cannot compile a simple Qt executable. Check you have the right $QTDIR.
` here
got compiled. installed these packages
1.) libqt5x11extras5-dev
2.) libqt5svg5-dev
3.) libice-dev
4.) qtbase5-dev
A similar improvement was done to #Lyx too, which is a #WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) document writing tool.
A very good improvement in the usability of #Linux on the desktop was done by Con Kolivas, an Australian ... dentist (I feel old saying this, as it was so long ago).