tlug: Mozilla, uh, M15

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

Hey, this is pretty cool (wacked out as you would expect from a Gtk
<haff, kaff, choke, bletch> app), but

	     LANG=ja_JP XMODIFIERS="@example.com=kinput2" mozilla

actually allows you to Japanese input via XIM.

Of course the status window appears as a separate popup window, not
necessarily on the same desktop as your Mozilla window, and you have
to focus on the root window to actually input any Japanese, and the
preedit data ends up in the text window that expects input and doubles
up when the candidate is confirmed (but without ending up in the input
buffer so if you delete the "extra characters", you lose).

"The amazing thing about a dancing bear is not how badly it sucks, but
that it dances at all."  Gtk still sucks, but at least now it sometimes
blows, too.  Gets you coming and going.[1]  :-)

And if you think that assessment is unjustified, consider this:  the
implementor of the XIM support didn't have time to implement a simple
off-the-spot method that works, but _did_ have time to colorize the
preedit feedback (just like Ms. Ime).  Sheesh ... but at least at
least it isn't "transparent".

Anyway, if I must go to a site that insists on frames, I now have an
alternative to manually navigating them via Lynx.  YOW!


Footnotes: 
[1]  Just a little "lip service" to the fact that this _is_ Japan.[2]

[2]  Chained footnotes ... you wouldn't have known that I gave my last
final this am, would you?

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