Folks, I've been struggling with documenting input methods. I have a vague notion of how they work, but not enough understanding to write really stellar help.
I was just chatting with Owen, and he informed me we don't even have a blessed upstream input method. Fedora uses IBus. Some distros might use SCIM. And there's all sorts of overlap between the IBus stuff and our keyboard layout selector. So if I'm to document input methods, I either need to write complete docs for all the various input methods, or I have to write crap like "Select an input method. You're on your own now." What's more, this is all planned to change in 3.2: <owen> shaunm: in 3.2 (if we get thngs done), keyboard layouts are actually going to be closely integrated with input methods, so the top level view is "I want in to write in Greek" vs. "I want to write in Japanese" rather than "I want a Greek keyboard layout" vs. "I want a Japanese input method" So right now, I'm thinking of cutting the page for input methods, and removing the section referencing them from tips-specialchars. It sucks, because this stuff really needs docs in its current state. But it'll take me the rest of the week to write something only barely passably decent, and then we'll throw it away in six months. Objections? -- Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
