Re: [Scim-devel] RFC: scim and gnome 2.18

[LiuCougar <liucougar gmail com>]

Hi Daniel,
So glad to hear that you are considering integrating SCIM into GNOME.
That's excellent.

On 9/8/06, Daniel Glassey <dglassey gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I'd like to start discussion about proposing SCIM[1] to be included in
> gnome 2.18 as the default IME so that languages/scripts that need more
> than xkb layouts are supported by default.
>
> Also, scim doesn't have the xkb restriction where you can only have a
> maximum 4 keyboard layouts to swtich between.
>
> This would require only small changes to gnome.
>
> The keyboard preferences dialog would need to support enabling this:
>
> Add a checkbox to the 'Keyboard' tab - something like 'Enable complex
> input methods'. If scim is not installed then this will be disabled,
> and something somewhere will tell you how to install scim to get this
> functionality.
In windows, if input method support is not installed (for most western
locales/versions of windows), the first time you check that checkbox,
a message can be poped up to tell users how to install SCIM. (maybe
providing a hook for distros here so they can start their installation
process automatically)

> If this is checked then scim will be started at startup
> Behind the scenes scim will be configured to start with X. In Debian
> there is a script called im-switch that sets up the environment for
> IMEs. Hopefully that could be made into a freedesktop project for
> other distros to use as well. Or if there is another way to do it that
> would be good as well.
I agree freedesktop shall have a standard wrt input method

> There will be an extra button on keyboard preferences to call scim
> config e.g. Complex &Input.
>
> This requires X to be restarted so it would be useful to have a way to
> log out and restart X rather than having to do a full reboot .
>
> Regards,
> Daniel
>
> [1] http://www.scim-im.org/
>
> P.S. I haven't found discussion about this before in list archives but
> the thought was vaguely mentioned at GUADEC so now would be a good
> time to discuss it.
>
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