Friends.
After finishing yesterdays meet, me(Shrini) and buvan went to ELCOT Office.
Interesting matters held there.
Buvan installed Ubuntu in Mr.UmaSankar's Laptop.
Before, it had Redhat and XP. He had some documents at Redhat.
So, While buvan asked him to remove XP, He accepted with no thinking.
He installed it nicely.
Meanwhile, I went to make tamil unicode typing at Openoffice.
It is simple in Opensuse KDE.
In persenal settings->Region&accebility->Keyboard Layout
It is there to add tamil unicode.
Then put the ~ key to switch the layout.
Thats it. Well done, I hoped.
But there is some real problem in unicode tamil keyboard layout.
It is not purely 100% Remington Typewriter layout.
Sakthi has unicode layout in his site.
I phoned him and gave the people there.
They found some problem in this layout.
As they have 10+ experience in Remington layout,
They feel very tough to adapt this unicode layout.
And the font "Lohit tamil" give some space problems.
It adds ore extra spaces while typing. So alignment is tough.
The requirement is
1. A tamil unicode keyboard layout 100% compitable with remington layout.
2. It should not gice any extra spaces.
Any one has taml typing experience in linux?
How do u solve this?
please mail me,list or hi ur experiences.
Then, He showed the conference hall for GLV. It is nice.
Buvan installed Ubuntu. He likes its automounting options.
It played his DVD movie automatically.
It asked to open the folder when he inserted his thumb drive.
At last, he made his drive to drop me at villivakkam, my place, with some staff.
Thus, He is more interested in FOSS.
With his efforts, Tamilnadu may become FOSS Station.
Thank you all.
dear,
T.Shrinivasan.
