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@madibi – thanks for your localization work!
Yes, we, users are quick to complain when everything does not work as it should, but we usually don’t think how much work it goes into making everything work- and in antiX’s and most Open Source projects, free work.
Even small details like the default “white and black” icons the menu and the toolbar use, were created from scratch (or some were adapted from existing ones) so they are perfectly visible in dark or white modes… And I’m not a visual artist, so I had to struggle with GIMP to achieve those results… I’m not a programmer by trade, so every single script you see (for example, the one that manages the menu favorites, or the one that displays the local weather from wttr.in in your region, in your language) I had to write, by constantly searching on-line how to do what I wanted the script to do.
The FT10 project is now well over 1 year old, and gained more and more features until it reached the point where it is now- where combined with IceWM or Fluxbox it feels and acts like an Desktop Environment – it’s not revolutionary- it does not do anything that hasn’t been done before by many D.E.’s- what it does it trying to achieve similar results to the ones those OS’s have using the least amount of resources- you can’t really run KDE or Gnome on a 32bits/1 gig of RAM laptop- but antiX, with FT10 runs great on it, of you like eye candy, you can even turn on compton and have visual effects like shadows and transparencies.
Probably next month, I’ll try to generate the new .deb package, including all the new localizations. I would like to include the full spanish localization and, at least, a german localization of the basic interface (ft10-variables)
Note; it pleases me to think that, since FT10 will be 100% localized in English, Portuguese, French, and it’s already partly localized to Spanish – it will be able to be used across all the American Continent and in a good part of Africa…
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