[Uim] Setting up for (traditional) Chinese and Japanese input on a modern GNOME installation

[James Su]

Hi,
  Which distribution are you using? And which version of gtk2 are you 
using? Could you please try scim-0.99.9 uim-0.4.2.1 and scim-uim-0.1.3 
to see if the first two bugs can be fixed?

  If you are using gtk2 2.4.x, you can not use the binary package for 
suse 9.1. Please compile and install scim from source.

  And maybe you want to read this before reporting scim related bugs: 
http://scim.freedesktop.org/Software/ScimReportBug

Regards
James Su

Duncan Mak wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-09-01 at 22:19 +0900, TOKUNAGA Hiroyuki wrote:
>  
>
>>I recommend scim if you type Chinese. And, from the point of view of
>>consistency, I recommend scim-uim for you to type Japanese right now.
>>
>>This document may help you.
>>http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~apricots/mandrake/miniguide.html
>>
>>    
>>
>
>After writing this e-mail, I went to SCIM's page and downloaded their
>RPM packages. For Chinese input, it works perfectly (if only I could use
>the pinyin method to write only traditional characters!).
>Congratulations to both teams! This is really awesome!
>
>You're correct that UIM/anthy is a lot better than SCIM for typing
>Japanese. I tried using SCIM's method, and it could not do mixed-input
>(kana + kanji) at all. Without mixed-mode support, it is effectively
>useless.
>
>I installed anthy, UIM and scim-uim afterward and things work
>beautifully now.
>
>I do have a few problems:
>
>(1) I use gdm as my display manager. On startup, it seems like scim
>takes a long time to load and my X input is frozen completely. It takes
>about 2 ~ 3 minutes until everything settles down. Usually, I switch
>back to the text terminal and then switch back, that seems to fix it
>somehow.
>
>(2) This also happens right after I log into my GNOME session. When I
>start up my first app that can handle text input (gnome-terminal, say),
>the SCIM tray icon flicks constantly for about 3 mins or so, until it
>settles down.
>
>It'll be nice if these two bugs goes away, then I can be productive as
>soon as I turn on my machine.
>
>(3) This is a strange one. Using gedit, anthy works great with SCIM. I
>can type words (i.e. 銇嶃倗銇嗐€€and it'll show me 浠婃棩 with an underline. I press
>enter and the word gets inserted and the underline goes away).
>
>With gaim however, my enter key does not release the current selected
>word from the underlining. Which means I have no way of finishing one
>word and moving on to the next one. Without this, it is very difficult
>to write anything substantial.
>
>Bug (3) is my current no.1 bug. I don't know how to debug it. If someone
>would like to look into this problem, please contact me and I'll try my
>best to find a way to reproduce the error.
>
>I'm running:
>	scim-0.99.2-1suse
>	uim-0.3.9-1 (home-made RPM)
>	scim-uim-0.1.1
>	anthy-5500-1
>
>Thanks!
>
>Duncan.
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