On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 06:52:10PM -0600, Ming Hua wrote: > On Sat, Feb 26, 2005 at 07:45:37PM +0100, Anders Bergstr�m wrote: > > Package: scim > > Version: 1.0.2-2 > > Severity: normal > > > > scim depends on libgtk2.0 and I don't think it should. > > Why do you think it shouldn't? Would you please clarify? > > Right now scim uses scim-panel-gtk by default, and it (as well as the > setup program, and the scim library they depend on) uses GTK+: > $ ldd /usr/lib/scim-1.0/scim-panel-gtk > ... > libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x400d9000) > ... > > It is possible to use skim (a.k.a. scim-panel-kde) in a pure KDE > environment, but that requires special packaging for scim (split the > GTK+ dependent part), and skim isn't in Debian yet due to lack of > knowledge and manpower. Any help is welcome.
Yes but if he is using KDE and worried about library bloat, GTK is relatively small. Since there is no linking to GNOME library he should not worry too much. > If you mean text-only or bare X applet for scim -- No, scim doesn't have > such support (yet). Also as I understand, KDE packages in Sarge (Quite old) does not include recent SCIM compatibility patches in the upstream. Basically, even if we make skim, it does not seem to be usable for Sarge. So not much motivation there yet. Osamu
