Why not an applet (icon in toolbar, systray ?) for Input Method only ?

[Christin LIVINE <lcn mail pf>]

Hi,

I posted a suggestion to gnome bugs database : 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354247, in comment #1.

I also wrote for the same suggestion to kde bugs database : 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109845, in comment #2.

What do you think of this suggestion ?

-----------------------------------------

Actually, there is an applet for SCIM only. It appears when SCIM method 
input is selected with right click in Gnome applications.

Why not an applet (icon in toolbar, systray ?) for Input Method only ?

- It would include IPA, Thai, chinese input methods, japanese input 
methods, unicode value…
- It would be separated from keyboard layout applet.
- There would be a neutral value. In this case, only the characters on 
the keyboard is usable, depend of the layout (french azerty, US english 
qwerty, german qwertz, arabic…).
- The input method value would be memorized for the next reboot. If 
pinyin IM is selected, at the next reboot, the pinyin IM will be aviable 
again.
- The IM applet could be combined with keyboard layout applet. Input 
method can work  with any keyboard layout. For example, chinese pinyin 
can work with french keyboard, not only with US english keyboard.
- The IM applet would work with all applications : Gnome application,
OpenOffice, Firefox, KDE applications…
- …

-----------------------------------------

--
         LIVINE Christin    ~~~~X8