Hi,

I wanted to share my experiments with ISIS on suse (32 bit).
I have tested it in opensuse 10.0/10.1. I have been told that
it works for SLED 10 also. Older versions <= 9.0 do not work
properly.

A. INSTALLATION OF GNOME APPLET

1. get all-in-one binary for rh or fc3 and unpack
2. open .configure. change libexecdir to /opt/gnome/share
   and libdir to /opt/gnome/lib
3. run ./configure and make gnomepanelapplet.install

B. INSTALLTION OF FONTS

ttmkfdir and chkfontpath are not included in suse distro.
You'll have to get the source/rpm from outside if you want to
run the installation script provided in isis-Indic-fonts.tar.gz.

I do the following instead,

1. Keep all kinds of fonts in .fonts directory under my home
directory (you can chose nay other directory)

2. go to .fonts and issue the following commands :

$mkfontscale
$mkfontdir
$fc-cache

3. Add the .fonts directory to X-server fontpath:
$xset fp+ (Absolute font path)
$xset fp rehash

That's it.

ISIS has been tested with gedit, Opneoffice-2.0,evolution mail
client and products from mozilla (firefox, seamonkey and thundebird).

SOME OBSEVATIONS:

1. NumLock key has to be deactivated while using isis
2. In suse, mozilla products do not have pango enabled by default.

However, you can enable it by the following switch

$MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1 firefox(or seamoney/thunderbird). This is the
default switch in FC5, so MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=0 will disable pango there.

I have not succeeded yet in compiling ISIS on 64-bit suse yet.
It will be described in the next post.

Purnendu

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