Re: [tlug] Desktop Wars Query

[Erin Hughes <eredicatorx@example.com>]

David J Iannucci wrote:
> In response to your honest curiosity, I have to say honestly that I
> haven't tried a lot of terminals :-)  I got into using Konsole because I
> liked KDE, and particularly like the (re-nameable) tabs, translucency,
> and easy configurability, including being able to hide the menu bar and
> scrollbar. I'm sure there are other terms that do this :-)
>
> I believe it may still be one of the few terminal emulators that's NOT
> a rewrite of xterm, which seems to be considered a good thing :-)
>
> As for i18n, it seems to handle Japanese reasonably well, but I have
> sometimes had troubles with input.  
No it was not your fault.  In older versions of konsole specifically the 
ones that were bundled with Fedora Versions lower than 4 or possibly 5 
(AFAIR) Making SCIM/Anthy talk to Konsole was nearly impossible.

I spent the better part of a day stracing the output from SCIM/Anthy to 
Konsole only to never see a input added to my console session. This is 
seriously a weak description of the problem. But in a crunch for time 
and the fact that konsole comes as part of the KDE bundle of apps I am 
unable to locate its actual version. The FC6 version below [1] worked 
out of the box. I also have tried to get it working with kbuntu but that 
was some time ago so I can say Japanese input was broken there as well.

Sorry for the 1/2 assed crappy answer. But no it was not you.
> It might have just been my own
> ignorance.  I've never had a pressing need to input Japanese in a
> terminal, and never tried hard to figure out why it might not be
> working in a given case.
>   
E./


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Core applications for the K Desktop Environment.  Included are: kdm
(replacement for xdm), kwin (window manager), konqueror (filemanager,
web browser, ftp client, ...), konsole (xterm replacement), kpanel