[SCIM] Selection keys in scim-chinese (and scim-skk)

[Yukiko Bando]

On Thursday 30 December 2004 11:15, Zhe Su wrote:
>   Great news. But using alphabets to select candidates is not suitable
> for Chinese pinyin input method, because such alphabets are part of
> pinyin token and Chinese users don't want to hit commit key for each
> phrase or single Hanzi.
>
You are right.  I thought it was a good idea but realized soon that it was not 
good for smart pinyin... :p

Thanks.

Yukiko

> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 10:59:17 +0900, Yukiko Bando <ybando at k6.dion.ne.jp> 
wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > It was not announced here but scim-skk-0.1.0 was released last night.
> > http://sourceforge.jp/projects/scim-imengine/
> >
> > Based on ddskk, it allows users to choose from three types of selection
> > keys in the setup panel like this.
> > http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~apricots/screenshot/skk_setup_panel.png
> >
> > The qwerty and dvorak arrangements use the home position keys of each
> > keyboard layout, i.e. asdfjkl or aoeuhtns.
> >
> > http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~apricots/screenshot/QWERTY.png
> > http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~apricots/screenshot/DVORAK.png
> >
> > The number selection uses 1-0 just like the current scim-chinese.
> > http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~apricots/screenshot/NUMBER.png
> >
> > How about adopting the same method in scim-chinese?
> >
> > In that case, please add the azerty arrangement (qsdfjklm) too for
> > French users. :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Yukiko
> >
> > ----- Reminder -----
> >
> > On Friday 12 November 2004 00:58, James Su wrote:
> > > This should be fixed in scim-chinese to let user customize the
> > > selection keys.
> > >
> > > > I'd like to make a small request about the candidate selection in
> > > > Smart Pinyin.
> > > >
> > > > It's very convenient to be able to select a candidate from the list
> > > > by number <snip>.  On some keyboard layouts like French AZERTY,
> > > > however, one has to press Shift to get 1-0. <snip>
> > > >
> > > >  So, I wonder if either of the following would be possible.
> > > >
> > > >* Allow users to customize the select keys.
> > > >* SCIM (or scim-chinese) judges what users select from the list by
> > > > keycode instead of characters/figures that are mapped to a key.
> >
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