Huan "KDE Zealot" Truong a écrit : > What is more important for me is not how > beautiful/powerful/extensible/universal/modern the design is, it's how well > the implementation works. Well... For non-technical users I would agree, but for you... ?
Anyway, there is a number of people among us interested not only in English and Vietnamese but other languages too (Nôm, Chinese, Japanese, French, Russian, ... just to give a few) which only modern multilingual IME allow. > Try to type a serious document with scim and you'll see how messed up the > accents are placed - at least with my typing practices. > FYI, a lot of employees of AuF in Vietnam have been running Ubuntu + SCIM for years now and, yes, they are frequently typing serious documents in Vietnamese. SCIM is also the default IME in Ubuntu and used all around the world. So, it may not work for you but it works quite well for a lot of people. > You have to relaunch the program to type Vietnamese if you launch skim > after you launch the program. SCIM, as well as Unikey _and_ some xvnkb part (the preloaded library), have to be started (loaded) at session start time, not after. > why the heck do I need a nice interface to configure it? I have more > important things to worry about, rather than spending time messing with the > configurations of a Vietnamese typing app that is supposed to work. > Once again, there are people out there who want to be able to tune their IME according to their typing preferences and/or usage (eg if they often switch languages or enter foreign words, v.v.). -- Jean Christophe "プログフ" ANDRÉ — ✧ — Responsable technique régional Bureau Asie-Pacifique (BAP) — ✧ — http://www.asie-pacifique.auf.org/ Agence universitaire de la Francophonie (AuF) — ✧ — http://www.auf.org/ Adresse postale : AUF, 21 Lê Thánh Tông, T.T. Hoàn Kiếm, Hà Nội, Việt Nam Tél. : +84 4 9331108 ✦ Fax : +84 4 8247383 ✦ Cellul. : +84 91 3248747 ⎧ Note personnelle: merci d'éviter de m'envoyer des fichiers PowerPoint ⎫ ⎩ ou Word, cf http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.fr.html ⎭ _______________________________________________ POST RULES : http://wiki.hanoilug.org/hanoilug:mailing_list_guidelines _______________________________________________ HanoiLUG mailing lists: http://lists.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG wiki: http://wiki.hanoilug.org/ HanoiLUG blog: http://blog.hanoilug.org/
