[SCIM] Lookup table direction

[James Su]

Hi,
  The direction of lookup table can be changed to vertical by 
scim-setup. If you think horizontal lookup table is not good, just 
change it to vertical.

Regards
James Su

yusuke at cherubim.icw.co.jp wrote:

>>Hi,
>>  Ok. If you have any new idea, please tell me.
>>    
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>
>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:
>>
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>>>On Tue, Aug 17, 2004 at 11:42:12AM +0800, Zhe Su wrote:
>>> 
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>>>      
>>>
>>>>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?
>>>>   
>>>>
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>>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>> 
>>>
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>>>
>>>> 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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