[SCIM] scim 0.9.6 & openOffice

[Damien Menanteau]

I'm currently having an issue with SCIM 0.9.6 and openOffice 1.1, I 
don't know if anybody encoutered this one already.

I've been using SCIM with openOffice for a few months on a SuSE 9.0 box 
with KDE 3.2.2, and was very happy with it until I recently upgraded qt3 
to version qt3-3.3.2-3. I'm not 100% positive that this change in QT 
version is the cause of the problem, but I can not see any other reason 
for this change in SCIM behavior.

What happens is the following: When I switch to pinyin input method from 
openOffice and start typing characters, I can not see anymore the popup 
window containing the list of available choices, and the scim icon in 
the toolbar starts blinking (well, actually its behavior gives the 
feeling that scim daemon keeps restarting, failing, and so on). This 
seems to be only a display issue though, because scim keeps working. 
Indeed, when I type for example "ni1", "ni2" or whatever pinyin input, I 
get the proper character inserted in the right place into my openoffice 
document.

At the time I encoutered the problem, I was using SCIM 0.9.3. I then 
upgraded to version 0.9.6 hoping that it may fix the issue, 
unfortunately it did not, the behavior is exactly the same.

The only workaround I have to this issue today is to activate the "On 
the spot" option in scim config, but then I get the annoying behavior 
related to the fact that ooffice does not support this option yet, with 
the cursor always moving away from the place I want to have the 
characters inserted.

Any idea or suggestion is welcome, I've tried all the options I could, 
but without any success up to this point.

Thanks

Damien