Nicolas Goutte wrote:

>As discussed a few weeks ago, there is a need to break (shortly) the message 
>freeze for fixing typos and other errors in user visible messages of KDE 3.5 
>before KDE 3.5.1.
>
Then, this is a great moment for me to ask...


Kate/Kwrite have no BIDI support, that is already known. This is bad 
also for Hindic speaker, who have to use a crappy editor, like kedit to 
write simple notes. That is bad.  There is a solution to that, which 
sadly I found just recently.


KDE applications can use different editors, the default installed by 
kdelibs is katePart. I found also kvimPart, and a "Qt Designer Based 
Text Editor" which is supplied by KDevelop. The last one, has a really 
good BiDI support, and I can only assume it will support all other 
languages Qt3.3.5 supports. As one can embed that kpart into KWrite, 
this means we can have a really powerful editor, with better support for 
"complex layouts".


The code is already available in kdevelop, which have a stable release, 
so may I propose:

Lets move that code to kdelibs, and by this providing a decent text 
editor for those who do not write English.


Here is a flash animation which shows the BIDI support of that editor, 
just ignore the Hebrew texts, look at the images, and install a Flash 
plugin (if you do ask, I can make an English version):  
http://iglu.org.il/~diego/kde/kwrite.html