Re: [tlug] [Fwd: [Bug 1240] no SCIM applet (for japanese input) for root]

[Hideki Yamane <henrich@example.com>]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009 19:37:12 +0900 (JST)
"nigel barker" <tech@example.com> wrote:
> so what would be a sensible list of fonts? vlgothic + what others?

 VL Gothic is enough, I think.


 If you want more fonts, get (unofficial yet) font from my repository.
 IPAfont or so.
 http://www.mithril-linux.org/~henrich/debian/package

 Some of them are now in Debian (testing/unstable).

> I've been using scim for a few years now, following the TLUG wiki. Before
> I discovered your wiki I struggled considerably and failed many times to
> get japanese input on debian/KDE. Its still not perfect - KDE apps can't
> type japanese. However since we mostly use OOo, iceweasel and icedove when
> typing japanese, it doesn't matter that much.
> If someone could update the wiki to make it work with KDE apps that would
> be fantastic.
> 
> Are you suggesting that uim-anthy is better than scim-anthy? Should I
> request both to be included?

 It is same as which is better - GNOME or KDE or ... :)
 Now Debian's Japanese environment, it just uses uim and uim-anthy.


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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.or.jp/iijmio-mail.jp
 http://wiki.debian.org/HidekiYamane