Hi,

I have made a total of three upgrades from Gutsy to Hardy heron on three
different Laptops (all using SCIM to type Vietnamese, installed through
the hanoilug-desktop package).

On one Laptop, Upgrading with Alternate went fine although I had to
perform a "dpkg-reconfigure --all" at the end of the upgrading as I had
an information that the upgrading went wrong and that the system might
be unstable and unusable and that I may have to run the dpkg command as
above.

Running the command was lenghty but in the end I had a perfectly working
system upgraded to hardy heron with SCIM (Vietnamese input) working in
OpenOffice.org 2.4.

On two other laptops, upgrading with the Alternate CD was quite
problematic and has to be made through several passes. In the end,
upgrading was successful on one laptop, but is stucked on the other one.

SCIM input method however was no more by default : when you had logged
on the system you could not see the SCIM keyboard icon on the bar as
usual. Lauching gedit, you had to do a right-click to choose the input
method and then "system" was the default. Choosing "scim" or
"scim-bridge" make possible inputting Vietnamese with Gedit.

But as soon as Gedit was closed, so did the Scim keyboard icon.

I tried verifying the content of ".scim/config" and of
"/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/scim" but they seems to be not very different.
For the last case, in the Hardy file I saw:

"XIM=SCIM
XIM_PROGRAM=/usr/bin/scim
XIM_ARGS="-d"
XIM_PROGRAM_SETS_ITSELF_AS_DAEMON=yes
GTK_IM_MODULE="scim"
QT_IM_MODULE="scim"
DEPENDS="scim,scim-anthy|scim-canna|scim-chewing|scim-pinyin|scim-hangle|scim-prime|scim-skk|scim-tables-additional|scim-m17n|scim-uim|scim-tables-ja|scim-tables-ko|scim-tables-zh"

I tried replacing "scim" by xim in lines GTK_IM and QT_IM and also
commenting XIM_PROGRAM..., to get the file with the same content as in
the Gutsy file, and restarted Xserver but without success : i.e. I don't
have the SCIM keyboard icon on the navigation bar and the default input
method is "system" in Gedit (you have to manually choose scim to be able
to type in Vietnamese). But as you cannot right-click and choose the
input method in Firefox and OpenOffice.org, it means that typing
Vietnamese in these two programs is not yet possible.

I'm going to check the content of the above two files  with the third
laptop which works by default with scim this evening after coming back home.

I believe the problem is to be solved elsewhere i.e. how to get the scim
input method by default instead of system or something else.

If someone has clues on what to do...

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Campus num?rique francophone (CNF) de Hanoi
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