Re: Input Method of Gnome

["Hilary Cheng" <hilarycheng usa net>]

Hello,

I think that's a good disscusion on International X / Linux Environment. :D

Yes, I agree with u, backend XIM can provide much more flexiblity.
As I concern,  how about the current X Application ? If we use backend XIM
one,
current X application maynot supported ( I donno whether it is correct or
not).
If Gnome got all type of application that we want, I think backend one is
the best.

I don't mind XIM should be frontend / backend. If we can type NON-ENGLISH
in XWin, it will be good for either one of them. :p My concern is, not all
the current
applications of X got source Like WordPrefect, etc. We can't modifty it to
backend one.
If Gnome got few applications that supported XIM-backend one, it would be
bad...-_-
No one will buy Linux............

Also, I would like to know, is there any thing has started about XIM /
International
of Gnome ?

Thanks you for ur attention.

Regards,

Hilary

-----原始郵件-----
寄件者: NIIBE Yutaka <gniibe@chroot.org>
收件者: gnome-list@gnome.org <gnome-list@gnome.org>
日期: 1999年3月10日 下午 12:54
主旨: Re: Input Method of Gnome


>Hello Hilary, thanks for your attention.
>
>Hilary Cheng writes:
> > IMO, I think FrontEnd model is much better. Since All those existing
> > applications ONLY need a small change.
>
>Yes.  That's exactly the benefit of frontend model.  However, speaking
>about GNOME, I think that it's not big change, we need to implement
>the backend model in some widgets, that's all.  All applications which
>use widgets need no change.  At least, I hope so. :-)
>
>With the backend model, we can do context dependent input method
>support (and display for input method window) in much consistentent
>way.
>
>Another example.  Suppose that there is form like:
>
> NAME:  ________________ <--- this entry is in blue
>
> SALARY: _______________ <--- this entry is in red
>
>We may want to input Japanese for NAME, but as SALARY is integer, it
>would be better for application to turn off international language
>input for SALARY.  And it would be good if the character has same
>color with the entry field in the input method window.  (Actually, M$
>Windows works like that, you may know)
>
>My point is that the backend model has more possibility to offer
>better user interface.  (Frontend model which accepts control from
>application is almost same as backend model.)
>
>Thanks,
>--
>Niibe Yutaka
>
>
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