Hi, I'd like to start discussion about proposing SCIM[1] to be included in gnome 2.18 as the default IME so that languages/scripts that need more than xkb layouts are supported by default.
Also, scim doesn't have the xkb restriction where you can only have a maximum 4 keyboard layouts to swtich between. This would require only small changes to gnome. The keyboard preferences dialog would need to support enabling this: Add a checkbox to the 'Keyboard' tab - something like 'Enable complex input methods'. If scim is not installed then this will be disabled, and something somewhere will tell you how to install scim to get this functionality. If this is checked then scim will be started at startup Behind the scenes scim will be configured to start with X. In Debian there is a script called im-switch that sets up the environment for IMEs. Hopefully that could be made into a freedesktop project for other distros to use as well. Or if there is another way to do it that would be good as well. There will be an extra button on keyboard preferences to call scim config e.g. Complex &Input. This requires X to be restarted so it would be useful to have a way to log out and restart X rather than having to do a full reboot . Regards, Daniel [1] http://www.scim-im.org/ P.S. I haven't found discussion about this before in list archives but the thought was vaguely mentioned at GUADEC so now would be a good time to discuss it. -- I'm subscribed with delivery to gtk-i18n-list so only cc me if that list is included in reply _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
