Now I have found a solution to this bug: Currently there are two distros that can make East Asian language input available to the user's KDE desktop as a tray icon if the user chooses/adds a East Asian language in his system, WITHOUT FURTHER CONFIGURATION BY THE USER:
(1) Ubuntu, with which if you first add Chinese language support in its System > Administration and enable "Input of Complex Scripts" (now you will have the scim icon on system tray) and then install kubuntu-desktop and then log into a KDE session, you will automatically be able to input East Asian characters by pressing Ctrl+Space to activate scim (in Ubuntu's KDE environment, there is no scim icon on the system tray, but Ctr+Space still can invoke a SCIM input method); (2) Fedora 8 KDE Live CD, with which if you add Chinese language support in its Control Center, you will automatically see the scim icon added to the system tray. And Ctrl+Space can invoke a SCIM input method. These two distros share the same way to their succcess of making SCIM available with zero user configuration: 1. They don't use SKIM at all (unlike Kubuntu); 2. The SCIM tray icon they make available belongs to SCIM itself, and SCIM itself has a GTK front-end. So this tray icon is actually a GTK applet that runs on the KDE taskbar. 3. The remaining task is figure out how to configure SCIM so that the end user can see such a SCIM tray icon. I leave this problem to you guys... How to verify that you have successfully figured out an automatic configuration procedure? (1) There should be a "keyboard"-like tray icon; (2) Right clicking this tray icon should lead to a popup menu showing "Configure SCIM", "Reload Configuration", "Stick Window", "Hide Toolbar", "Help", "Exit" (translated from Chinese translations). (3) Left clicing this tray icon should see a list of available languages and for each language a submenu of available input methods. IT SHOULD NOT BE AN EMPTY MENU. -- Kubuntu East Asian language display and input not as good as Ubuntu https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/181300 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
