> I think that kinput2 and canna are fairly common still. If scim only > works without configuration in the GTK apps, it's another reason some of > we older geeks still prefer kinput and canna as they require no worries > about whether it's a KDE or Gnome app. :) > > Also, most English speakers at least, looking to learn about Japanese > are proabbly going to be directed to my Japanese in *nix page, which > only covers kinput2 and canna. :) (In the Arch section, I suggest > downloading a vanilla tarball I've made of the two--canna doesn't work > quite right, when you call it, it echoes terminated to the screen but is > still running. This is NOT an Arch package, it is a generic compilation > of kinput to use canna and vice versa that will run on a Linux that > doesn't have an available package for it. ) I realize that sounds like > boasting, to say they're going to be directed to my page, but it's sort > of the big fish in small pond thing. :)
The main reason kinput2 and canna are still being used is, I think, mainly historical: they came first and are therefore more documented in english. When I was looking for a new distribution, japanese input was one of my main preoccupations and a google search indeed lead me to your page... which incited me to give arch and scim a try. I still had bad memories of my attempts to set canna and kinput2 in Mandrake =) The decision to go for scim was not just emotionnal; though kinput2 and canna makes a great input method for japanese, I couldn't figure out how to make a personal dictionary file, and, it is not versatile enough: it's a japanese-only input method, and I also wanted to type korean. Though apparently most japanese distributions still use canna as an input-method, I am not sure it is needed in archlinux. This input method story can already be quite confusing to basic linux users like me, and many input methods would only add to the confusion. By the way, when updating my system, I noticed that the repo package for scim-tables is older than the one I compiled: the latest release (my local) seems to be 0.5.1 and the repo version is 0.5.0. I will wait for a working skim 1.4 package to update my input method (still using 1.2.1) Another question about the way the packages are distributed in archlinux: do the scim engine and different input methods make a group (like kde for example)? I think it would make things easier for users. Regards David ダヴィッド _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
