On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 23:19 +0530, Frederic Muller wrote: > On 03/31/2011 11:17 PM, Shaun McCance wrote: > > 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 > > Well I was starting to write some things about iBus following our > discussion. > > In fact from a user and high level perspective there are really not much > differences (between scim and ibus) apart from the graphics. Usage is > similar. > > So if you need a draft you can have it within 1-2 hours and we can > discuss it on the channel, else never mind.
Sure, if we can get something that's at least more helpful than nothing, that's an improvement. Thanks, Shaun _______________________________________________ gnome-doc-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-doc-list
