Re: Re: Re: chinese input method collided with gnumeric

["zuowei" <gnome hirain-sh com>]

Hi Nakai,

It seemed that the description of Bug 90082 give a good explaination to my problem.

In the end,Tajima gave a patch to this problem.Whether this path will be applied to the new version of GTK2?



----- Original Message -----
From:Yukihiro Nakai ( ynakai redhat com )
To:Jody Goldberg ( jody gnome org )
Sent:2003-06-28 14:58:00
Subject:Re: Re: chinese input method collided with gnumeric


> Hi,
>
> > On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:18:03AM +0800, zuowei wrote:
> > > Dear Jody,
> > >
> > >    I contacted with the chinese input method author,and he told me
> > >    how to change the enable key of it,then I did it successful and
> > >    change default enable key to ctrl+shift using the method he
> > >    told me.I can use the chinese input method now.
> >
> > Its good to know that it is possible.
>
> It's not Gnumeric fault but GTK+'s.
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90082
>
> GTK+2 passes key events to GTK+2 widgets before immodule,
> so immodule cannot get indispensable key combination to input.
> This effects not only XIM module but also all immodule, and all
> languages.
>
> >  
> > >    In fact,all chinese input method's default enable key is
> > >    ctrl+space,I hoped that gnumeric develop team can consider this
> > >    problem,and adjust the accelerator of gnumeric,or like what's
> > >    you said,the accelerator can be editable.  All people using
> > >    chinese input method will be glad to see that.
> > Do you have access to a chinese version of MS Excel ?  I'd be
> > interested to know what they do.  Gnumeric did not choose that
> > accelerator itself.  There were bug reports from MS Excel users
> > requesting it for compatibility.
>
> I think there is some confution about this. MS-IME assigns different
> key combo to start CJK input than that are used in CJK XIM servers.
> For example, Japanese MS-IME assigns Alt+Kanji(this key is at backquote
> key in English qwerty keyboard) but Japanese kinput2 assigns
> Shift+Space, and ATOK12, a Japanese popular commercial input method
> do Ctrl+Space. MS-IME seems to keep some key combo policy among
> languages, but XIM key combos are different by XIM servers, by
> languages, even by distros. Oh no-
>
> -- 
> Yukihiro Nakai <ynakai redhat com>
>
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