Hi, Wayne, Thanks for your appreciation!
IIIMF also supports using different input methods for different input contexts. You could configure this behavior with iiim-properties, i.e., by disabling the "The language is applied to all applications" option in "General" tab. Regards, W. Wayne Liauh 写道: > There is absolutely no chance that SCIM will be considered for the upcoming > 2008.11 LiveCD. There is just not enough time to go through the necessary QA > process. Also, if an exception were made (and for something of such > significant magnitude), who is going to close the flood gate that may ensue? > > Yong really did a great job of porting SCIM to OpenSolaris. Without that, we > wouldn't even be in the discussions. > > Also thanks to Yong's contributions, we can actually talk about the > advantages of SCIM, especially for use in the LiveCD for maximum > acceptability. I am attaching two screenshots to illustrate some of its > advantages. > > Screenshot 1 shows the languages and input methods available in the current > implementation of SCIM: > > http://tinyurl.com/yong-scim-1 > > Comparing with the IIIM used in the current LiveCD, only Hebrew is missing. > However, the Hebrew subpackage can be easily added if necessary. Thus, with > a small effort, we won't lose anything. > > One of the advantages of SCIM vis-a-vis IIIM is that it allows different > languages and input methods for different applications in the same login > session. This is illustrated in Screenshot 2: > > http://tinyurl.com/yong-scim-2 > > which shows four x-terms implementing four different languages of traditional > Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Arabic (Egypt), respectively. In comparison, > IIIM allows only the same input method. If OpenSolaris is intended to be a > great multi-lingual OS, it should be quite obvious which one will be more > helpful. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
