> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
> Damir Perisa
> Sent: Friday, July 15, 2005 1:19 PM
> To: General Discusson about Arch Linux
> Subject: [arch] [INT][PKG]: fcitx
> 
> Le Friday 15 July 2005 03:26, 甘露 a écrit :
> | > scim-anthy is running on my system under scim 1.2.3 but now that scim
> | > 1.4.0 is out i try updating everything to 1.4.0 first.
> | >
> | > hope you can wait. (the input engines need to be recompiled but 1.4.0
> | > is somehow not working properly yet but i don't know what is causing
> | > this (Frontends and Backends fail to load successfully))
> |
> | Possibly because not all scim related processes have been killed, in my
> | experience they can hardly be killed if you have GTK2 applications
> | running. You have to relogin. Or have you tried to use scim -d instead
> | of scim -f socket -c socket -d.
> 
> i found out what was wrong: the 1.4.0 was linked against a part of the
> 1.2.3 installation. removing 1.2.3 from system before compiling 1.4.0
> fixed it.
I am still working out if SCIM can only depend on X, so people who don't use 
gtk2 can be happy with it, saying KDE. You know SKIM depends on SCIM, but 
people who just use KDE certainly don't want to install whole GTK2 (in such 
case it's just better than I have to install QT and kdelibs for some kde 
applications). James (SCIM main developer) said it can compile like that and as 
a library which could be used by SKIM or alike, however, I have never tried. 
May try it when home or you take it :-), I do not want to install the KDE 
anyway, :-) very happy to be a user instead of maintainer.
> 
> | And can I here recommend another
> | application "FCITX"(A Chinese input methods collcetion) to be included
> | in Arch? It is commonly used by Chinese users because of its simplicity
> | (depend on only x).
> 
> "Free Chinese Input Toy of X" based on XIM ... hi hi ... a "toy" ;-)
> 
> seriously: what is the advantage of fcitx that scim or gcin do not offer?
> the only one i can think of is the lack of dependency to gtk2. am i right
> here? the reason why i didn't look at it in the beginning is that it
> looked a little bit more confusing to me to understand it than gcin and
> scim. if there is a need for this "toy", to offer people who are not
> having gtk2 on their systems chinese input methods, i will add it to
> [extra]. thank you for the info!
Only advantage that FCITX offers beyond SCIM or GCIN is its X dependency only, 
which makes it lighter and simpler, which is the meaning of its exist in my 
point of view. So if you ask if it's worth to be included in the extra, I will 
speak loudly Yes, please. You know not everybody using gtk2 and even many 
Chinese gnome or xfce fans use it to input Chinese. Its developer calls it 
"toy" because he writes it for fun, but in Chinese we call it "little tux".

> 
> by the way: i learned today that "下载" means download :D (not that i know
> how to say it but at least i can recognise it written - hi hi)
You are really a fast-learner. "下载" pronounces "sha'za" that's what I like the 
best to do when I am surfing, :-).  

> - D
> 
> --
> Windows is the only solitaire game that requires 16 MB of RAM.


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