On Fri, 2006-09-08 at 17:05 +0200, Daniel Glassey wrote: > Hi, > I'd like to start discussion about proposing SCIM[1] to be included in > gnome 2.18 as the default IME so that languages/scripts that need more > than xkb layouts are supported by default. > > Also, scim doesn't have the xkb restriction where you can only have a > maximum 4 keyboard layouts to swtich between. > > This would require only small changes to gnome. > > The keyboard preferences dialog would need to support enabling this: > > Add a checkbox to the 'Keyboard' tab - something like 'Enable complex > input methods'. If scim is not installed then this will be disabled, > and something somewhere will tell you how to install scim to get this > functionality. > > If this is checked then scim will be started at startup > Behind the scenes scim will be configured to start with X. In Debian > there is a script called im-switch that sets up the environment for > IMEs. Hopefully that could be made into a freedesktop project for > other distros to use as well. Or if there is another way to do it that > would be good as well. > > There will be an extra button on keyboard preferences to call scim > config e.g. Complex &Input. > > This requires X to be restarted so it would be useful to have a way to > log out and restart X rather than having to do a full reboot . > > Regards, > Daniel > > [1] http://www.scim-im.org/ > > P.S. I haven't found discussion about this before in list archives but > the thought was vaguely mentioned at GUADEC so now would be a good > time to discuss it.
I ommited to reply here as well. Just to remind, the discussion logs of the Keyboard discussion that took place in July are available at http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/KeyboardInputDiscussion Thanks Daniel for bringing this up, Simos _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
