[SCIM] about scim_panel.h

[James Su]

Hi,
  For the features like on-screen keyboard, handwriting etc., I just 
want to add an api interface for them, in order to make it easily to 
write such extensions for SCIM. So I plan to add this interface into 1.0 
branch.

Regards
James Su

liu spider :

>I agree that all these are great ideas!
>
>However except the first one (on-screen keyboard), the
>other two require much more work and conresponding
>algorithms.
>
>I think maybe it is better to pursue the latter two
>features in SCIM 2.0+ and IMHO the first feature can
>be made available in about SCIM 1.5 or so.
>
>I think maybe a time table and/or TODO list or feature
>plans for future versions on SCIM website is a good
>thing ;) (something sort of
>http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde-3.3-features.html)
>
>--- James Su <suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn> wrote:
>  
>
>>And I'm thinking about to extend the panel interface
>>to support other 
>>kind of input method and tools, like on-screen
>>keyboard, handwriting 
>>recognization, speech recognization etc. Do you have
>>any idea?
>>
>>James Su :
>>
>>    
>>
>>>Hi,
>>> Yes, it's a problem. I'll think about it. Maybe
>>>      
>>>
>>it's better to move 
>>    
>>
>>>the panel interface into libscim.
>>> And because I had already quitted from
>>>      
>>>
>>Turbolinux, 
>>    
>>
>>>http://www.turbolinux.com.cn/~suzhe/scim will not
>>>      
>>>
>>be maintained any 
>>    
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>>>longer.
>>> I'll move all things of SCIM to
>>>      
>>>
>>www.freedesktop.org soon.
>>    
>>
>>>Regards
>>>James Su
>>>
>>>liu spider :
>>>
>>>      
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>One of Ark Linux developers is contacting me
>>>>discussing about scim-panel-kde.
>>>>
>>>>Ark linux does not include Gtk2/Gnome2, so they
>>>>        
>>>>
>>choose
>>    
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>>>>SCIM as their default input method (good news,
>>>>        
>>>>
>>isn't
>>    
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>>>>it?), because he said all the other mature ones
>>>>        
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>>depend
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>>>>on Gtk2.
>>>>The developer do not know CJK, and what he wants
>>>>        
>>>>
>>is to
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>>>>incorporate CJK input support into Ark Linux.
>>>>
>>>>I just commited a patch into CVS to correct a
>>>>        
>>>>
>>mistake:
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>>>>X11 frontend no longer depends on gtk2.
>>>>
>>>>Now, I just discover another potential problem:
>>>>        
>>>>
>>as
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>>>>scim_panel.h won't be installed unless
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>>>>
>>scim-panel-gtk
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>>>>is compiled, meanwhile scim-panel-kde is also
>>>>        
>>>>
>>depend
>>    
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>>>>on this header file.
>>>>
>>>>So I think we should come up a solution for this.
>>>>
>>>>My suggestion is just installing this header file
>>>>        
>>>>
>>no
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>>>>matter whether scim-panel-gtk is compiled.
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas?
>>>>
>>>>Regards,
>>>>Cougar
>>>>
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