Well, i just had a look at this new Input Method (IIIMF stands for Internet/Intranet Input Method Framework), and it appears to be really good !
Url : http://www.li18nux.org/subgroups/im/IIIMF/ And debian packages are even available there : http://people.debian.org/~rogerso/im-sdk/dists/sid/main/ The "htt-server" package implements the main IIIMF server which uses plugins (japanese one is still not available as a debian package, but simplified chinese one is: htt-le-newpy) to be able to use the packages. There already is a XIM package which implements a XIM interface to IIIMF, so we can use mozilla, gtk, and any other applciation which uses XIM to use IIIMF (package: htt-xbe). As far as i can see by changing the plugin used by IIIMF this changes the input in applications. Just like Global IME does under windows. So, if we have an applet running under our gnome, kde or another wm, we can easily change the input method (with a keyboard shortcut for example). Developments to have Gtk+, Mozilla & OpenOffice use of IIIMF directly will be started after the libiiimp (iiim protocol) is released. That's sound great, don't you think ? I still didn't tried it, i will in the next few days. It looks like to correct all the limitations evolved by the old XIM. And i don't think it will be a so long term development, snapshots are already available, and 1.0 version of libiiimp is sheduled for Q4 2002, it's not so far from now, implements to have gtk+ and other apps to get use of this would start near after. We can swear to have something working quite good for the Q2 2003 ^^ I'm not a developper, but i will try this regularly to give feedbacks and make things run better. For now i'm using gtk2&gnome2 with japanese locale... Julien
