[SCIM] SCIM 1.1.2 is available for testing.

[Zhe Su]

Hi,
  Proxy IMEngine can be used to filter/convert some output of an
IMEngine. For example convert the output strings from Simplified
Chinese to Traditional Chinese, or translate between Chinese and
English, on the fly. It also can do many other tasks, eg. provide an
extra window to display the meaning of a phrase in the LookupTable.
And keyboard layout switching also can be implemented by such way.

  For keyboard layout switching, your idea is good, but it seems that
it's very complex :-). In my view, each IMEngine should tell scim
which keyboard layout should be used. SCIM should provide a setup tool
to let users specify the keyboard layout actually used by them.  Then
scim should convert the key events from the layout used by users to
the layout used by IMEngine before sending them to IMEngine.
  But in such way, the API of IMEngine and KeyEvent must be changed.
And IMEngines must be modified to support it.

Regards
James Su


On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 09:23:19 +0900, Yukiko Bando <ybando@k6.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Saturday 15 January 2005 23:01, Zhe Su wrote:
> 
> >   I plan to add the following features before releasing scim 1.2.0:
> 
> I have a couple of questions again.
> 
> >   * Proxy IMEngine (or Cascade/Nested IMEngine? Which name is better?)
> 
> What is it?  How will users benefit from this new feature?  Could you please
> clarify it a bit, preferably in human understandable words? :)
> 
> >   * Keyboard Layout switching.
> 
> I'm more curious about this one.  Will it allow users to specify a keyboard
> layout to be used for each IMEngine in the setup panel if they want?
> 
> -----
> In my imagination, Global Setup in the panel will look like this in
> scim-1.2.0.
> 
> Captions: Name --- Enable --- Hotkeys --- Keyboard
> Buttons: Expand/Collapse --- Edit Hotkeys --- Select Keyboard
> 
> When I select an IMEngine and click the Select Keyboard button, a small window
> pops up and prompts me to choose one from a list of keyboard layouts.  The
> window has the "Browse" and "Customize" buttons as well.  If I click
> "Browse", the open file dialog box pops up and I can select my custom xmodmap
> in my home directory.  (Can SCIM read xmodmaps???)  If I click "Customize",
> another window pops up, where I can remap individual keys just like in the
> stillborn "Custom keyboard layout editor". :D  I would then remap €éù'*-è@çà
> on the first row of my keyboard to 1234567890 for scim-pinyin until it
> supports custom selection keys. :)
> ----- End
> 
> Am I completely misunderstanding the purpose of "Keyboard Layout switching"?
> 
> Anyway, I'll try out 1.1.2 first.  Thank you.
> 
> Yukiko
>