W. Wayne Liauh wrote: > ALL my complaints were made before Sun's developers totally revamped IIIM > (i.e., gutted it to the bare bone) for the upcoming OpenSolaris 2008.11 > release. It was beyond my, or anybody else's, wildest contemplation that any > entity could have the technical prowess to do this in such a short period of > time. IIIM can accommodate more languages than probably anything that is > currently available, but it is just not the best tool for Chinese speakers, > particularly Chinese-speaking developers. The porting of SCIM to Solaris > couldn't have come at a better time. Plse see: > > http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=78411&tstart=250 > Hmm, having followed the conversation about the merits of IIIM vs. SCIM, and having a need to switch between English and Indic, I thought I'd try SCIM. Doing a search from Package Manager for scim didn't come up with anything. Doing `pkg search -r scim' did. I installed SUNWscim & SUNWscim-tables-india, but didn't change any environment variables (I was installing in preparation to have a look at a later date). It got rid of the language switcher from the panel. It got rid of any alternative languages from System->Preferences->Input Methods, and basically I couldn't work out how to switch input method when next I needed to. The only solution I found was `pkg uninstall SUNWscim', which recovered the situation, and now I can use CTRL-SHIFT-<> to switch again. I'm sure I'm missing something, but maybe having scim there by default is not such a good idea ?
Rob -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PHONE: +44 24 7652 3037 Rob McMahon, IT Services, Warwick University, Coventry, CV4 7AL, England _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
