[SCIM] Lookup table direction

Choe Hwanjin krisna at kldp.org
Tue Aug 17 00:06:56 PDT 2004


On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:42:12AM +0800, Zhe Su wrote:
> Hi,
>   Sorry, currently there is no solution. I'll try to solve this issue
> after scim 1.0.0. Currently there are two possible way:
> 
> 1. Let IMEngine choose the direction of lookup table.
> 2. inform IMEngine the direction of lookup table, so IMEngine can
> change it's behaviour.
> 
>   IMO, the direction should be decided by user, so 2 is better. But I
> currently have no idea how to inform IMEngine.
> 
>   How do you think about it?

I agree, It should be selected by the user.
And I have no idea, either :)

Anyway, I will modify the keys for lookup table of scim-hangul because
current keys are for vertical lookup table and scim's default value of
lookup table direction is horizontal.

> 
>   Anyway, there are two ugly way for this issue, but not recommended:
> 
> 1. Not use arraw keys for this purpose at all.
> 2. Read the configuration value "/Panel/Gtk/LookupTableVertical" from
> config object to decide the direction. But this is not workable for
> skim (scim-panel-kde).
> 
> 
> Regards
> James Su
> 


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