It's not so correct. As I know, minichinput was derived from Chinput which was a Chinese input method software developed by Turbolinux. Then Chinput/Minichinput were widely adopted by many other distributions, like RedHat etc.
Until Turbolinux 8.0, Chinput was the default Simplified Chinese input method. But now it has been replaced by a totally new Input Method platform in Turbolinux 10 Desktop, which is called SCIM. I'm the author of SCIM and was a maintainer of Chinput. In my view, the structure and technology of Chinput/Minichinput is too old, and will not fit into the modern Desktop technology very well. So please consider to drop Minichinput/Chinput into trash and start to use some other modern input method platform instead, for example, SCIM, IIIMF etc. Regards James Su > Hello. I'm zhangweiwu from the minichinput project. This is the first > time I post to XFree86 list, so please forgive me if I posted to the > wrong list. > > To be brief: minichinput is a Chinese input method server. Can XFree86 > accept minichinput as its subproject? > > Minichinput is the most widely used *nix input server among the > simplified Chinese users (or at least I think so). Linux distros like > RedHat and Turbolinux adopted minichinput as the default input server. > minichinput handles both GB, Big5 and UTF8, it is lightweighted, doesn't > rely on gtk/qt. > > Who/what list should I contact if I wish to make minichinput a > subproject of XFree86, and release as part of it? Do XFree86 accept this > kind of subprojects? > > Thank you. > > _______________________________________________ > I18n mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
