The Best Bangla Font: Siyam Rupali

 

সিয়াম রূপালী / শ্যাম রূপালী (Siyam Rupali) ফন্ট অভ্র ফ্রী বাংলা ফন্ট প্রকল্পের অধীন বিকশিত হয়েছে । এখনো পর্যন্ত আমি যত বাংলা ফন্ট ব্যবহার করেছি, সিয়াম রূপালী (Siyam Rupali)  সেরা বাংলা ফন্ট ।  সত্যিই এখনো পর্যন্ত ভাল বাংলা ফন্টের আকাল রয়েছে । বাংলা অক্ষরের "মাত্রা" বাংলা ফন্টকে খুব ছোট দেখাতে বাধ্য করে । এই কারণে  বাংলা ফন্টের পাঠযোগ্যতা  মুশ্কিল হয়ে দাড়ায়। সিয়াম  রূপালী ফন্ট, রূপালী  বাংলা ফন্টের একটি পরিবর্তিত রূপ। মোঃ তানবিন ইসলাম Siyam পূর্বোক্ত সমস্যাগুলো সমাধান করেছেন।  আপনি এই ফন্ট ব্যবহার করে মেসেঞ্জারে চ্যাট করতে পারেন - 'ছোট ফন্ট সাইজ' কোনো সমস্যা হবে না.


আপনি বিনামূল্যে এই ফন্ট  ডাউনলোড করতে পারেন এখান থেকে. আমি এই ফন্ট ব্যবহারের সুপারিশ করি। 

Avro Phonetic Bangla typing for Linux

 Many of us have used Avro keyboard , the amazing bangla phonetic keyboard on windows. Folks like me who want to do everything under linux environment now have good news. Omnicronlab now started supporting my favorite linux distro Ubuntu. If you are running Ubuntu 12.10 or Ubuntu 12.04 LTS you can easily install this amazing application by simply adding their repo to your ubuntu install.

Installing ibus-avro on Ubuntu 12.10:

Open Terminal and enter the following commands one by one.

Step 1: Add ibus-avro repository

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sarimkhan/xUbuntu_12.10/ ./"

Step 2: Add key

$ wget -q http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/sarimkhan/xUbuntu_12.10/Release.key -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Step 3: Update package list

$ sudo apt-get update

  

Step 4: Install ibus-avro 

$ sudo apt-get install ibus-avro-quantal

Using ibus-avro

1. Run IBus (Applications -> System Tools -> IBus) from Dash
   
2. Open IBus Preferences from the top panel icon
   
3. Go to Input method, select Customize active input methods checkbox
   
4. Select an input method -> Bengali -> Avro
5. Now Click Add button to add Avro to the list
   
6. Now restart IBus from the top panel icon (Right Click -> Restart)
   
7. Open any text editing software (like, gedit). Now Press Ctrl+Space to toggle between English and Avro (Bengali)
8. Enjoy Avro Phonetic!
   

Setting IBus as default input method

You may want to set IBus as your default input method so that it starts automatically every time you log in.

1. Run Input Method Switcher (im-switch) from Dash
   
   
2. Select IBus
   
   
3. The following message will be shown. Log out and log in again.
   
   

Uninstalling ibus-avro

Step 1: Open Terminal and enter the following command:

sudo apt-get remove ibus-avro-quantal
 
Step 2: Restart IBus.

Installing ibus-avro on Ubuntu 12.04:

To install Avro keyborad under Ubuntu 12.04, you can follow the preveous steps by replacing "home:/sarimkhan/xUbuntu_12.10" with "home:/sarimkhan/xUbuntu_12.04" wherever required and to install it you have to replace "

sudo apt-get install ibus-avro-quantal" with "sudo apt-get install ibus-avro" .

Ubuntu 12.10 ( Read Canonical ) forced me to migrate to XFCE from Unity / GNOME

I have been a GNOME fan since I started using Ubuntu in 2007. I actually liked the switch from 1.x to 2.x, . But with the GNOME3 development, I was struggling to use GNOME. It forced me to use GNOME fall back session as my graphic card did not play well with OpenGL and GNOME3 Shell. I compromised with GNOME fallback mode and infact happy with it. 

My experience went far worst with the introduction of Unity by canonical in their distribution. It was a pain to use on my low end notebook as the graphic card did not like it. Though I was ok with it till ubutnu 11.10 . But it forced me to find some alternative which works well on my notebook. I stared using Lbuntu but I did not like it either. Day to day computing was a pain. I unistalled unity and started using GNOME shell in fall back mode i.e GNOME classic mode.

But hold on , GNOME 3.8 will officially remove the fallback mode. This forced me again to search for alternative. Now I thought I will give a shot for XFCE ( read xbuntu ).

Once I started using xbuntu , my old notebook became new again. It performed so well. I played with XFCE desktop . It is lightweight , sleek , fast and less resource demanding.

I am now switching to XFCE. My notebook does not work well with OpenGL, and thus don't work well with Gnome shell. I go to XFCE. Which is much closer to the original Gnome experience, and very productivity oriented..

In Gnome 2, it was a lot about making things more usable as they are, a bit cleaner and more efficient. With Gnome 3, it seems to be about experimenting with new stuff. Which is why it keeps on breaking APIs all the time. For example themeing GTK 3 is constantly broken; most of the themes available just don't work. Similar Gnome Shell extensions - most of them work with exactly one version of Gnome Shell

Well I am not blind haters of GNOME shell . But I feel it is broken now. The UI shift may the future of personal computing because the way the personal computing advancing. In near future , we may not use traditional keyborad and mouse. PC will be a touch only device. I think in those time, GNOME3 will be more appropriate. But for now , for my notebook XFCE is the choice. Good luck to GNOME3 ....