[SCIM] Please help me test the newest SCIM code.

[Cougar]

Hi,

My concern about these issues is that "what's the
future of SCIM project now that IIIMF is approaching
its maturity?"

As long as I can see, SCIM was just designed (and is
trying) to achieve nearly every aspect of IIIMF.
However now more and more distros migrate to IIIMF,
then what SCIM will do next if they are the same
(fundimentally)?

I remember James_su said that SCIM can be transfered
to co-operate with IIIMF, but I can not imagine which
part will SCIM be in IIIMF frame, or will SCIM be
another implemention of IIIMF?

I just think if wheel exists already, why should we
reinvent it again (I mean the daemon and mult-user
support)?

Cheers,
Cougar

--- James Su <suzhe at tsinghua.org.cn> wrote:
> Hi,
>   This patch will work partially. If users start
> scim-setup in other 
> way, the config still can not be reloaded
> automatically. I plan to let 
> scim-setup connect to panel and tell it to reload
> the config directly.
> 
>   init scripts to start/stop/restart scim system
> daemon are the most 
> important part. But beside that, some other issue
> must be resolved, for 
> example:
> 1. How to managed the user tables for generic table
> im module? 
> Originally, the user tables are stored in
> ~/.scim/user-tables, and table 
> setup module can manage this tables directly. But if
> SCIM was started as 
> a system wide daemon, these tables must be stored
> into an independent 
> directory (eg. /var/lig/scim/), then hwo to manages
> these tables within 
> scim-setup table setup module?
> 2. If we uses SCIM as a system daemon, then multiple
> users can use one 
> scim instance at the same time. Is it necessary to
> separate the users' 
> data to different file? Or it's ok to just store all
> user's data into 
> one file? btw. IIIMF can distinguish different
> desktops (users).
> 
> Regards
> James Su
> 
> Ming Hua wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 05:29:47PM +0800, James Su
> wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >> Of course you may have a try. Any bug fixes and
> enhancements are 
> >>welcome. Just give me your patch. Though I had
> already a plan to do this 
> >>feature.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >Well, I have no experience on Unix programming
> (signal, process stuff),
> >so most likely I am doing things wrong.  But the
> following simple patch
> >seems to work for me, any comments?
> >
> >Index: extras/panel/scim_panel_gtk.cpp
>
>===================================================================
> >RCS file:
>
/cvsroot/scim/scim-lib/extras/panel/scim_panel_gtk.cpp,v
> >retrieving revision 1.65
> >diff -u -r1.65 scim_panel_gtk.cpp
> >--- extras/panel/scim_panel_gtk.cpp     13 May 2004
> 11:25:22 -0000      1.65
> >+++ extras/panel/scim_panel_gtk.cpp     17 May 2004
> 21:52:53 -0000
> >@@ -3911,8 +3911,10 @@
> >         if (pid <= 0) break;
> >     }
> >  
> >-    if (pid < 0)
> >+    if (pid < 0) {
> >         _scim_setup_running = false;
> >+        action_reload_config ();
> >+    }
> >  
> >     if (pid == 0)
> >         signal (SIGCHLD, sigchld_handler);
> >
> >  
> >
> >> And, there is a more important feature in my todo
> list: make SCIM 
> >>works as a system daemon. How do you think about
> it? Any comments are 
> >>welcome.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >What is the difference between the current SCIM
> daemon mode and a SCIM
> >system daemon?  I know you need scripts for
> starting, stoping, and
> >restarting a system daemon, but that's all I know.
> >
> >Ming
> >2004.05.17
> >
>
>--------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >We used to think that if we know one, we know two,
> because one and one are
> >two.  We are finding that we must learn a great
> deal more about ``and''.
> >                                                 
> --- Sir Arthur Eddington
>
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