Osamu : >I have no idea on Ubuntu. I am curious for gnome-language-selector Debian >situation. >
For Debian distros when searching at http://packages.debian.org, I do not see "gnome-language-selector" or the package "language-selector" which carries it in. It has been made only for Ubuntu it appears. Harshula + Osamu: > > 3) I wonder if the packages that depend on im-switch use "all_ALL". > > > > Reverse Depends: > > uim-common,im-switch > > skkinput,im-switch > > scim-pinyin,im-switch > > scim,im-switch > > kinput2-common,im-switch > > imhangul,im-switch > > gtk-im-libthai,im-switch > > gcin,im-switch > > fcitx,im-switch > > I do not think they should use all_ALL to set im-switch beavior (I know > this may not be followed as I know.) > > /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default was meant to be the system default fall > back. im-switch package itself writes into the alternatives registry file /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-input-all_ALL for inclusion of "default", "none" and "default-xim". scim, uim(actually uim-xim which depends on uim-common) , gcin are some others I have checked to find that they write into same registry file in Debian. Haven't checked the others so could be more. Harshula: > Then let us at a minimum, > > 1) Remove "all_ALL" from the documentation. > > 2) Add a check to im-switch which warns the user of a deprecated > > "all_ALL", if it exists. > > 3) Add a fake "default" locale that acts like a default. > > 4) I would prefer to use the string "all" for a fake locale that is > > meant to represent 'all' locales, instead of the string "override". It > > is clear and simple. > > So, I would prefer something like this > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > for f in "$HOME/.xinput.d/all" \ > > "$HOME/.xinput.d/${LNG}" \ > > "$HOME/.xinput.d/all_ALL" \ > > "$HOME/.xinput.d/default" \ > > "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all" \ > > "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/${LNG}" \ > > "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL" \ > > "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default" ; do > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ a). So while all_ALL to be deprecated, it will not be disallowed? Anyway as per Osamu's point on backward compatibility it cannot be removed from 80im-switch. So we will have "all" and "all_ALL" . Will you be satisfied with "every" instead of "all" to avoid closely similar fake locale names? b). Having the line "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all" would defeat the purpose of the line below it. scim package for CJK locales and im-switch for th_TH locale set system-wide defaults of scim-bridge and th-xim respectively. If another package maintainer chooses to create registry entry for "x-input-all" then out-of-box readiness for those users will get turned off. My suggestion is to remove "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all" from the above. So the use of "all" would be restricted to user's own configuration only and not for system wide configuration. c) //3) Add a fake "default" locale that acts like a default.// Why is it necessary ? As it is now, through im-switch commands, the configuration file "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default" can be sym-linked to by "$HOME/.xinput.d/all", "$HOME/.xinput.d/${LNG}", "$HOME/.xinput.d/all_ALL". And so there is no need for the line "$HOME/.xinput.d/default" in the above list. So my suggestion is: ---------------------------------------------------------- for f in "$HOME/.xinput.d/all" \ "$HOME/.xinput.d/${LNG}" \ "$HOME/.xinput.d/all_ALL" \ "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/${LNG}" \ "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/all_ALL" \ "/etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/default" ; do ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And for the fake locale "all" an alternative name could be "every" And among the two suggestions of "im-switch -e" and "im-switch -r" which I made in post #32 the second (for "re-initialising") is not needed with above arrangement. ~Sethu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
