Ghee Teo 写道:
> W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
>   
>>> I understand that it is important to cut these
>>> options to make iiim less unstable and for better
>>> performance and to save space, but this also makes
>>> the OpenSolaris LiveCD, at least for most traditional
>>> Chinese users who do not have, or don't know how to
>>> use a bopomofo keyboard, practically unusable.  (Of
>>> course, we can always install SCIM ...)
>>>
>>>     
>>>       
>> It also should be pointed out that, to the best of my knowledge, none of 
>> other LiveCD distros, including Ubuntu, Fedora, SuSE, etc., provide input 
>> option for non-English speakers.  (At least their official releases don't.)
>>
>> Thus, the fact that the "official" OpenSolaris LiveCD provides input 
>> capability for, say, the 1.3+ billion Chinese speakers, should be considered 
>> VERY significant.  However, we should also keep it in the right perspective 
>> that this is only a LiveCD, its capabilities are understandably limited.  
>> This is where IPS comes into play--in a very big way I may say.
>>
>> Nothing currently available can be easier than installing SCIM into 
>> OpenSolaris.  Justs open the Package Manager, search "scim", check 
>> appropriate box(es).  hit install/update.  Voila!  You're done!
>>   
>>     
>    Is there a need to disable iiim after scim is installed?  Is there a 
> validated steps to switch to scim, we could document it in a blog 
> somewhere at least for future references.
>   
No, there is no need to disable iiim after enabling scim. And yes, I had 
blogged it, refer to 
http://blogs.sun.com/yongsun/entry/how_to_switch_to_scim.
> -Ghee
>   
>> This is where we will see another big difference b/t OpenSolaris and all 
>> other LiveCD distros.  With Ubuntu, I don't think I will be able to impart 
>> Chinese localization without much googling (& I consider myself a very 
>> experienced Linux user) and carefully following the steps.  Even that, I am 
>> still struggling about inputting Chinese characters in OpenOffice.org.  With 
>> SuSE LiveCD, I am still struggling, period. :-)
>>   
>>     
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