RFC to remove "Input Method Status" menu option and implementation

[Mark Hung]

Hi Tomaž ,

CJK users rely on IME to enter ideographs extensively. But I never heard of
this feature and IIMF is quite old from wiki. I'll check with other people
from the community.

2018-06-18 21:14 GMT+08:00 Tomaž Vajngerl <quikee at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> In Writer, File->View we have "Input Method Status" option, which is
> for me in "disabled" status ~all the time and I guess for others too.
> The gerrit patch in [1] has a proposal to remove this from the menu,
> but before we proceed with that it would be good to get some consensus
> if this is "safe" to do.
>
> In the help file [2] it says this is only implemented for IIIMP IM
> framework in Linux that wasn't really used much and quickly replaced
> by SCIM and later with IBUS. If that's true this function doesn't work
> practically for nobody. Looking into the code this depends on X11 and
> isn't really implemented for anything else. X11 is already in the way
> out itself.
>
> If somebody is more familiar with this, can give more information
> about it and if this would be safe to remove?
>
> If we can agree with the removal, I'll apply the patch and remove the
> code from VCL.
>
> [1] https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/55940/
> [2] https://help.libreoffice.org/Common/Input_Method_Status
>
> Regards, Tomaž
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Mark Hung
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