[SCIM] Lookup table direction

[yusuke at cherubim.icw.co.jp]

> Hi,
>   Ok. If you have any new idea, please tell me.

FYI.
Most of Japanese input methods use left/right direction to select and
resize text segments. So candidate selection operations are assigned to
up/down/PageUp/PageDown key.

However, selectiong horizontal candidate items by vertial
operationg keys seems not intrusive for Japanese users.

> 
> Regards
> James Su
> 
> Choe Hwanjin wrote:
> 
> >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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