> > gnome-terminal and multi-gnome-terminal are fairly lightweight. > > Also, the user interface used to configure, interact with, and > > use the input method has to use some toolkit. I'd say gtk2 is > > as good a choice as another. > > As Glenn wrote, gnome-terminal is not very lightweight. > And, do you say that non-European-language speaking people don't > need to have choices? For example, there are people who like Eterm, > Aterm, Wterm, Rxvt, Xterm, or so on. (Note that all of them support > XIM.) Is it a priviledge of European-language-speaking people to > say such preferences? It is what I wanted to call ethno-centrism.
:( Hardly, gtk input methods obviously cannot be used everywhere, but neither can XIM ones or whatever qt uses. I think that im-ja can be made into a viable alternative, based upon the fact that it can be used more flexibly than kinput2. I have yet to see what will be true of IIIMF. Regardless, hopefully the stark differences between them that you mentioned can be fixed so that at least the inferface is familiar. Also, from a programmer's point of view, it is vastly simpler to support intl input and layout through a toolkit than it is to code such support in laboriously every time. New apps written at the level of xterm may or may not support i18n, but most dont. On the other hand, those written to a toolkit will. And when your primary login is Japanese, the XIM method works fine, but you wouldnt want Japanese input to be difficult or impossible when you log into another locale. And I still think gnome-term is lightweight, Glenn's opinion notwithstanding. -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
