> Template Version: @(#)sac_nextcase 1.66 04/17/08 SMI > This information is Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems > 1. Introduction > 1.1. Project/Component Working Name: > tegrate SCIM to Solaris > 1.2. Name of Document Author/Supplier: > thor: Yong Sun > 1.3 Date of This Document: > July, 2008 > > 2. Project Summary > 2.1. Project Description: > This project is to integrate SCIM > (www.scim-im.org) and its various > IMEs (input method engines) to Solaris Nevada > and OpenSolaris. > COMPONENT VERSION LICENSE TERMS > ---------------------------------------- > scim: 1.4.7 LGPLv2.1 > scim-bridge: 0.4.14 GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 > scim-anthy: 1.2.4 GPLv2 > scim-chewing: 0.3.1 GPLv2 > scim-hangul: 0.3.2 GPLv2 > libdatrie: 0.1.2 LGPLv2.1 > libthai: 0.1.9 LGPLv2.1 > scim-thai: 0.1.0 GPLv2 > scim-pinyin: 0.5.91 GPLv2 > scim-tables: 0.5.7 GPLv2 > scim-sunpinyin: 1.0 LGPLv2.1 and CDDL
Thanks for the info. I fully agree with this action. As I mentioned here almost a couple of years ago, Sun is probably the only remaining large entity that is still contributing to the IIIMF project (even RedHat has abandoned the ship long time ago). There is probably nothing wrong for the OpenSolaris community (whatever that means) to stick to IIIMF, but in order to enjoy the full benefits that an open-sourced project is supposed to offer, adopting SCIM (whether or not we obsolete IIIMF) is a welcoming change. Because SCIM is the default IM in many mainstream Linux distros, a successful porting of SCIM is also the only way to attract many of the Chinese-speaking developers into the OpenSolaris camp. The door is now finally open--for them to do business with Solaris. :-) Unlike IIIMF in OpenSolaris, the most current implementation of SCIM seems to have been seamlessly integrated into Linux. For example, in SuSE 11.0, it has become so transparent that I did not notice that SCIM has always been loaded during the GNOME start-up until I pressed the control-space composite keys. Hope we will be able to reach that stage soon. BTW will it take a lot of additional effort to also port UIM-pinyin-big5 into OpenSolaris as one of the input modules for SCIM? The scim-pinyin (Smart Pinyin) support for traditional support is less than satisfactory. SuSE Linux is the only distro that provides UIM-pinyin-big5. As I understand it, this is one of the main reasons that HP selects SLED10 for its 2133 mini-notebooks. Please let me know if anything is ready to be tested. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
