[Localization] Status on SCIM

[Walter Bender]

Any further word on the DBUS-based SCIM replacement being worked on at
RH? Seems like a nice approach. Presumably that conversion path is
equally facile (especially from a SCIM-based system).

-walter


On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).
> From what I understand (till now) - it is not a major effort to
> convert existing XKB symbol files to .mim files, the process should be
> relatively straightforward and easily scriptified. Of course, I don't
> have a proof of concept yet :-)
>
> Thanks,
> Sayamindu
>
>
>>
>> On Fri, 2008-09-05 at 17:48 +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> During this week, I poked SCIM a bit more, especially on the topic of
>>> migrating our existing layouts to the framework. It looks like the
>>> m17n IMEngine would be the best way to go forward at this stage for
>>> our existing layouts (though I need to check a bit more on the
>>> dependencies it will be pulling in). I'll try to come up a (semi)
>>> automate way to migrate our XKB symbol files to the m17n .mim format
>>> by next week.
>>> Thanks,
>>> Sayamindu
>>>
>>>
>> --
>> Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org>
>> One Laptop Per Child
>>
>>
>
>
>
> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> [http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings]
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