what is that app?
it adds support to type in romanized unicode Nepali(if you are confused, its about typing in Nepali font using english keyboard). press shift+alt to switch typing language systemwide.

what platform does it works on?
Debian Etch, Ubuntu (6.06 & 6.10), Fedora (Core 5 & 6), and openSuSE 10.1. mainly and it is not required in newer versions, it works by default.

is it open sourced? where to get the code?
http://nepalinux.org/downloads/nepal...ack-1.0.tar.gz
it has nepali font, keystroke to character converstion and ui translation file for those oses mentioned above. only typing is of focus.

how can i say it won't take more than an hour to port?
the tarball is approx. 4mb, translation files(*.mo) takes most of the space rest are only about 200kb and most of those seems to be the keystroke conversation code. plus what it does seems to be copy files to some directory.

problems that may be encountered?
the biggest doubt/trouble here will be is there keyboard switching layout tool as in pc linux distros? if no there will be trouble and such app needs to be ported but if I am not wrong, the regional firmwares of different region allows to type in their native language as well as english(even though I can select two language in text setting in input, i don't seems to figure out how to type in language oter than en) which should mean there that thing as well.