[The patch discussed in this mail is in #335426, however it was sent to #314744 (a bug about the same issue but against scim instead of scim-pinyin) by mistake. Resend to #335426.]
I had a brief talk with Emfox about the patch for this bug (in Chinese, therefore I can't just paste the log here), and following is the summary: My concern about his patch are: 1. The patch introduces a conffile. As it's usually not modified by users (but see point 2), and im-switch is not likely the ultimate solution, this conffile is unnecessary and add quite some maintenence burden. 2. The patch hardcodes GTK_IM_MODULE=scim, while there are quite some good reasons for user to want to user GTK_IM_MODULE=xim instead. 3. It only benefits the zh_CN locale users. Users with en_US.UTF-8 locale (like myself :-) still need to work on the configuration on their own. While (3) is more like the design problem of im-switch, (1) and (2) should be solvable. Emfox proposed using two separate configuration files to set GTK_IM_MODULE as xim and scim respecitively, but that introduces one more conffile. :-( So I told him the most important thing is getting rid of conffiles. There are two ideas: I. Put the im-switch configuration files into /usr/share/scim-pinyin/, and symlink (delete) it in postinst (prerm) script. II. Somehow trick the debhelper scripts in debian/rules to not label the im-switch configuration files not as conffiles. I have no idea how to do this, what the consequece will be, or if this is permitted by the Policy. So there are basically just some ideas from a brainstorm. Hopefully Emfox will follow up to say which ones are feasible. Ming 2006.02.18 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
