[Localization] Status on SCIM

[Sayamindu Dasgupta]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
> Sayamindu,
>
> I still see no compelling reason to convert the existing layouts to
> scim, at least in the short term.  It may certainly be best for future
> keyboards to do it "the new way".
>
> What am I missing?
>                           - Jim
>

If we want to keep the existing XKB based system, we would have to
load SCIM conditionally, which I want to avoid (and maintaining and
supporting two different IMs might be a bit of pain). Also, even some
of the existing keyboard layouts would benefit from a switch to SCIM
(eg: Amharic and Nepali).