[SCIM] Improved scim-panel-kde (about socket config)

[James Su]

Hmm,
  It's a way, but not a good way. people always want to start scim with 
only scim command. Starting scim-panel-kde before scim iteself is very 
annoying for users.
  I think the better way is writing a derived class of scim::ConfigBase 
which using KConfig as the backend.  Then people can start scim with 
just one command, like: scim -c kconfig -d

Regards
James Su

Cougar :

>Hello everyone,
>
>Finally, I decided to "incoporate" KConfig into SCIM
>like this: implement the config retrieving socket API
>in scim-panel-kde and let scim use socket config (of
>course I need to specify the socket address in
>environmental vairable) to connect to scim-panel-kde
>
>now you can have a try like this:
>scim-panel-kde -d (this must be started first)
>SCIM_CONFIG_SOCKET_ADDRESS="local:/tmp/scim-panel-socket"
>scim -c socket -d
>
>scim will happily use what you are configured in
>scim-panel-kde setup UI (though at present there are
>few settings about SCIM itself, more will come)
>
>On the other hand, I found a potentional problem: the
>first time, you ask SCIM to use socket config to
>connect to scim-panel-kde, many settings are empty (do
>not exist in kconfig files), but as long as the socket
>config module connected to the server (in this case is
>scim-panel-kde) and it can receive info from server,
>it will think it can read the settings successfully so
>do not fall back to the "default" value.
>
>I think it would be better to extend the socket config
>API to specify whether it read something from the
>config file (success) or just empty values (fail).
>
>At present, the work around is: at the first time you
>decide to migrate into scim-panel-kde, to do this:
>
>echo "[SCIM]" >> ~/.kde/share/config/skimrc
>cat ~/.scim/config.zh_CN* >>
>~/.kde/share/config/skimrc
>
>Any suggestions and feedbacks are highly appreciated.
>
>Cougar
>
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