[Uim] Re: IM switching by toolbar (was: "n." in romaji kana input mode of anthy)

[Etsushi Kato]

On 2/16/06, YamaKen <yamaken at bp.iij4u.or.jp> wrote:
> ek.kato at gmail.com wrote:
> > BTW, I've added IM selection feature using a gtk's toolbar icon recently.
> > Please try it.
>
> Useful. Thank you for the improvement. I would like to make the
> feature standard for all environments at now.
>
> To avoid some problems in the toolbar-centric approach
> (described below), I prefer action-based one. Please see
> im-switcher.scm and let me know how do you think about it.

Cool.  I also prefer action based one.

> - It requires re-implementation for each toolbar impl (such as
>   Qt version)
> - The helper message 'im_list' lacks user friendly im-label-name
> - And revising the message format costs us considerable bothering

Totally agreed.

> Related to the IM switcing, I want to revise
> prop_{label,list}_update messages to add indication-id (roughly
> equals to icon name) to support icons for all action-items. Are
> you interested in it?

Good idea.  Ashie-san recently put Japanese scim's IM icons for
 BSD/LGPL license, so we can use them.

Cheers,
--
Etsushi Kato
ek.kato at gmail.com