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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Proposal: unified input method/keyboard layout switching support
From:       LiuCougar <liucougar () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-12-12 23:35:58
Message-ID: 955806780612121535y6b5b2bd2g71e449314685eee9 () mail ! gmail ! com
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On 12/12/06, Andriy Rysin <arysin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2006/12/11, LiuCougar <liucougar@gmail.com>:
> > Hi All,
> > I am the author of skim (SCIM for KDE, an input method which supports
> > more than 30 languages, see http://www.scim-im.org ).
> >
> > I'd like to propose that KDE4 includes a similar app (let's name it
> > KDEINPUT for now) in its basic package (maybe kdebase?) which provides
> > not only an input method platform, but also multi-keyboard layout
> > switching capacity (and handwriting recognition in future).
>
> I had an impression that there's work happening on integrating SCIM with
> libxklavier which kxkb plans to use (now xklavier is used for configuration
> parsing but I was planning to reuse layout switching too). If work for
> merging SCIM and libxklavier is successful we'll get more universal way of
> switching layouts/input methods in KDE, GNOME and any other environment
> which uses libxklavier.
oh, yeah, I remember some discussion about this some time ago.
However, I haven't heard any updates since then. Anyone I can ping to
check the progress?

thanks,
Cougar

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