[SCIM] dramatically improved scim-panel-kde and inter-operatability with scim

[James Su]

Hi,
  Is it possible to write a scim config module based on kconfig? Reading 
config file under ~/.kde/share/config/ will be easy if we have such a 
module.

Regards
James Su

liu spider :

>Hello every,
>
>These days scim-panel-kde received bunch of
>improvements: more features and small bugs fix.
>
>Now, all the necessary features in panel frontend are
>implemented, besides a brand new plugin: kde setup ui
>is included which is based upon KConfig XT (FYI
>http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/kconfigxt/kconfigxt.html).
>
>Hope you have a try. IMO it has been stable enough for
>everday use and I am looking forward to your feedbacks
>and bug reports ;)
>
>On the other hand, I have an issue about
>inter-operatability of scim-panel-kde and SCIM: as
>stated, KConfig XT is used through out scim-panel-kde
>to automate the creation of Setup UIs. KConfig XT can
>only handle config files under ~/.kde/share/config/
>and I just found that so many codes are there in
>KConfig class so it makes no sense for me to subclass
>it.
>
>Now the included SetupUI can only modify a subset of
>the specific settings used in scim-panel-kde,
>excluding settings of SCIM (and scim-panel-gtk)
>itself. However, I hope end users can config SCIM and
>scim-panel-kde in a one-stop solution, thus all the
>configs will be included eventually. 
>
>My issue is that as long as all the settings saved in
>KConfig XT goes into a file under ~/.kde/share/config/
>(say skimrc), how scim read them?
>
>The solution I come up is: first time the Konfig
>dialog (KConfig XT) is requested, it will read all
>scim setting through a specified scim config module.
>After the user modify any options, just before Kconfig
>closes, it will write them back via scim config module
>API. (Unfortunately, currently configbase in scim-lib
>does not support retrieving all the setting options.)
>
>What's your opinion?
>
>Regards,
>Cougar
>
>
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