[immodule-qt] introducing QT_IM_SWITCHER environment variable

[Takumi ASAKI]

Hi YamaKen.

On Tuesday 10 August 2004 17:02, YamaKen wrote:

> > It confuses ordinary users. Although ordinary users will not
> > imagine such configuration, weird users will favor such
> > configuration and publish their configuration memo to the
> > world. It will confuse victims that googled with 'QT_IM_MODULE'.
> > 
> > To prevent such unwanted happening, we should restrict the
> > plugins that can be specified by QT_IM_SWITCHER as real
> > IM-switchers. It can be actualized by checking whether the
> > specified plugin has the 'imsw-' prefix.
> 
> Above restriction is also implemented. See r67 of the
> trunk. This restriction has changed the configuration convention
> for system integrators as follows.
> 
> - valid configuration
> 
>   setenv QT_IM_SWITCHER imsw-none
>   setenv QT_IM_MODULE iiimqcf
> 
> - following configuration has become invalid
> 
>   setenv QT_IM_SWITCHER iiimqcf

Sorry.  I have not noticed this description.
I think it's better this restriction is bad.

IM-Switcher and IM-Module is same class.
So, it's better user can set IM-Module as IM-Switcher if user want.

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  Che Che - Bye Bye
        From: Takumi ASAKI <takumi at asaki.jp>
	URL: http://asaki.jp/