Re: Excise input methods

[Frederic Muller <fredm gnome org>]

On 03/31/2011 11:17 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> Folks,
>
> I've been struggling with documenting input methods. I have
> a vague notion of how they work, but not enough understanding
> to write really stellar help.
>
> I was just chatting with Owen, and he informed me we don't
> even have a blessed upstream input method. Fedora uses IBus.
> Some distros might use SCIM. And there's all sorts of overlap
> between the IBus stuff and our keyboard layout selector.
>
> So if I'm to document input methods, I either need to write
> complete docs for all the various input methods, or I have
> to write crap like "Select an input method. You're on your
> own now."
>
> What's more, this is all planned to change in 3.2:
>
> <owen>  shaunm: in 3.2 (if we get thngs done), keyboard layouts are
> actually going to be closely integrated with input methods, so the top
> level view is "I want in to write in Greek" vs. "I want to write in
> Japanese" rather than "I want a Greek keyboard layout" vs. "I want a
> Japanese input method"
>
> So right now, I'm thinking of cutting the page for input
> methods, and removing the section referencing them from
> tips-specialchars. It sucks, because this stuff really
> needs docs in its current state. But it'll take me the
> rest of the week to write something only barely passably
> decent, and then we'll throw it away in six months.
>
> Objections?
>
> --
> Shaun

Well I was starting to write some things about iBus following our 
discussion.

In fact from a user and high level perspective there are really not much 
differences (between scim and ibus) apart from the graphics. Usage is 
similar.

So if you need a draft you can have it within 1-2 hours and we can 
discuss it on the channel, else never mind.

Fred