[SCIM] About trigger key and English/European mode.

[Zhe Su]

Hi,
  I think maybe we should remove this English/European entry, because
multi/dead keys are already supported transparently by any FrontEnd.
How do you think?

Regards
James Su

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 01:15:13 +0100, LiuCougar <liucougar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:51:53 -0500, Ming Hua <minghua at rice.edu> wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 10:40:00PM +0100, LiuCougar wrote:
> > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2004 04:56:13 +0800, Kitae <neeum at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > Second is I am enable only two mode Korean > 3bul 390, and  Chinese >
> > > > Smart Pinyin.  But when I change mode using switch input method key,
> > > > there is three mode.  English/European is never disappear.  I hope
> > > > that English/European mode can turn off.
> > > I think you can disable European keyboard in IMEngine configuration dialog.
> >
> > If you mean IMEngine frame in scim-setup, no it doesn't work.  You can
> > disable everything except English/European.  Actually you can choose to
> > disable English/European, but the panel ignore your setting.
> Ok, you are right: I confirmed this in the source code.
> 
> > I would also like to see this fixed, personally I don't really care, but
> > I am recieving wishlist about this for my Debian packages.  
> Agree. IMO, we should provide the capability to disable this feature,
> for most of CJK users do not really need this compose IMEngine at all.
> 
> OTOH, this IMEngine is built-in in the scim library itself. I think,
> it would be better to split it in a separate plugin: otherwise this
> introduce un-necessary overhead for most CJK users.
> 
> What's your opinion?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
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