[SCIM] Re: [PATCH]Clarify using InputMethod in KDE

[Kazuki Ohta]

Hi, all!

Each side has each opinion about cooperating.
We cannnot making up our mind yet to decide which side should take a step 
backward.
So, please wait a while.

>   It will be great if UIM and SCIM can cooperate each other. Because
> SCIM has a flexible design which can be act as an input method library
> as well as a network server (like iiimf). So I think it should be better
> if UIM can be act as an input method module of SCIM.
>   But recently I noticed that the current API of SCIM can not support
> UIM very well, for example, SCIM currently does not support generic im
> property. I'm extending SCIM to support this feature. And more
> important, I and several input method specialists coming from RedHat,
> ThizLinux, Sun Wah Linux, RecFlag linux etc. took a meeting in these
> days. We discussed the issue of current input method frameworks very
> deeply, especially IIIMF and SCIM. I got many new idea in this meeting,
> and decided to make a big change to SCIM API. These changes may be done
> before the end of June. After that change, I think the architecture SCIM
> should be strong enough to compete with IIIMF.

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Move the worlD!

Kazuki Ohta : mover at hct.zaq.ne.jp