Re: [tlug] New Input Method in Fedora Core 2?

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

>>>>> "Botond" == Botond Botyanszki <tlug@example.com> writes:

    Botond> It seems to me that this thing is aimed for Solaris (I see
    Botond> the htt server on our solaris box at work, but haven't
    Botond> tried it there) developed by Sun people. Qoute:

Uh, half right.  IIIMF grew out of experience with XIM and Java, and
was intended as a framework that would be compatible with Java, but
extensible to other environments.

    Botond> Hope that it will become usable in the next 10 years, but
    Botond> by then it will be obsolete again...

IIIMF itself has been usable for years, but nobody is interested
(except Sun) in implementing front-ends for it.

    >> Evidently, you can put Chinese, Korean, and Japanese in the
    >> same text without having to login again and change the locale
    >> setting.

    Botond> This is already possible with gtk2.

And Emacs.  "Convenient multilingual input since 1993."

    >> I haven't played around with this yet.  Does anyone have an
    >> opinion as to whether the new input method is an improvement or
    >> not?

The protocol is a big improvement over XIM, especially for apps like
Emacs that make sophisticated use of the keyboard.  However, for users
it all depends on the input methods.

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