On Sun, May 21, 2006 at 08:06:45PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote:
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > [..] maybe what we should do is:
> > 
> > GTK_IM_MODULE=scim as default for SCIM. 
> > GTK_IM_MODULE=xim as default for UIM.
> 
> What's wrong with using GTK_IM_MODULE=xim everywhere? It always
> works (in Linux).

True.

> I gather that the separate input methods for GTK are only there to
> provide "portability" to other systems, like MS Windows. But we
> are discussing Debian here, i.e. Linux, so (if I understand it
> correctly) we do not have to care about Windows portability, and
> can use the "standard" xim.
> 
> see http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/2004-05/msg00004.html
> 
> About the many different window managers, each (possibly) with
> their own best way to start the IME: yes, this is a problem. But
> it has to be solved somehow (I mean it cannot be left unsolved,
> otherwise for many users, uim/scim, etc., mysteriously do not
> work). It is more important for im-switch to pay attention to the
> window managers than to pay attention to the locales.

That sounds like too uch complication.  Let me think a bit more.

Simble global restart seem to work OK with recent SCIM now.
 SCIM seems robust for restart
 UIM: candidate window seems to have issue
      may be resolved by "sleep 1"

> Maybe a "test protocol" for uim/scim should be devised which can
> be sent to all Debian maintainers of window managers.

If you impliment such an nice thing, let us know.

Osamu





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