[SCIM] The new features I'm implementing.

[James Su]

Hi,
  Thank you for your suggestion. This should be fixed in scim-chinese to 
let user customize the selection keys.

Regards
James Su

Yukiko Bando wrote:

>On Sunday 07 November 2004 00:20, Zhe Su wrote:
>  
>
>>  Currently I'm implementing the following features in the next major
>>SCIM release:
>>
>>1. Multiple displays support for one user at the same time (DONE).
>>2. Add a beep method in IMEngine interface (DONE).
>>3. Client Helper interface, for client side GUI Helper module, eg.
>>customized GUI, On Screen Keyboard, Handwriting, etc. (WIP)
>>4. Proxy IMEngine support, for revert conversion etc. (TODO)
>>5. Keyboard Layout remapping, eg. remap QWERTZ, Dovrak layouts to QWERTY.
>>(TODO)
>>
>>Do you have any suggestions and ideas about these features? Or, do
>>you have any new requests? Please tell us.
>>    
>>
>
>Hello,
>
>I'd like to make a small request about the candidate selection in Smart 
>Pinyin.  Maybe it is related with #5 of the above?     
>
>It's very convenient to be able to select a candidate from the list by number 
>(which is not implemented in UIM's Japanese input methods...), especially 
>when what I want is the last one in the proposed list.  On some keyboard 
>layouts like French AZERTY, however, one has to press Shift to get 1-0 (see 
>below).  Also, with my custom xmodmap, I have to press a mode switch key 
>because 1-0 are in the second group...   
>
>Of course, one has the option to use a different keyboard layout for Chinese 
>input, but switching between two layouts is a little bit confusing for me, 
>and probably so it is for most people, I guess.  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.   
>
>I hope I'm not asking for something crazy... :)
>
>Looking forward to the next release.  Thank you.
>
>Yukiko
>
>--------
>(French AZERTY layout)
>keycode  10 = ampersand 1
>keycode  11 = eacute 2 dead_tilde
>keycode  12 = quotedbl 3 numbersign
>keycode  13 = apostrophe 4 braceleft
>keycode  14 = parenleft 5 bracketleft
>keycode  15 = minus 6 bar
>keycode  16 = egrave 7 dead_grave
>keycode  17 = underscore 8 backslash
>keycode  18 = ccedilla 9 asciicircum
>keycode  19 = agrave 0 at
>
>(My custom xmodmap)
>keycode  10 = EuroSign exclam 1 
>keycode  11 = eacute quotedbl  2
>keycode  12 = ugrave numbersign 3
>keycode  13 = apostrophe dollar 4
>keycode  14 = asterisk percent 5
>keycode  15 = minus ampersand 6 
>keycode  16 = egrave apostrophe 7  
>keycode  17 = at parenleft 8
>keycode  18 = ccedilla parenright 9
>keycode  19 = agrave asciitilde 0
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