On Feb 9, 2008 8:10 AM, Ziyuan Yao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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...
First, you guys should refer to Ubuntu's procedure of installing and configuring SCIM. This way at least you can make SCIM available to Kubuntu's KDE desktop when the user presses Ctrl+Space. It would be a bonus if you can further figure out how Fedora 8 KDE LiveCD manages to put the SCIM tray icon to the KDE taskbar. This should also be easy because by running "scim -d" (without running SKIM at the same time) you should be able to see SCIM entering the system tray. The hard part is to make sure when left-clicking this icon you can see a non-empty list of languages and for each language, a submenu of available input methods. The Chinese/Japanese user communities should already have figured out the configuration procedure for this. Ask them. > > 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 Kubuntu Team, which is a bug contact for kubuntu-meta in ubuntu. -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
