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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Typing unicode
From:       "John Tapsell" <johnflux () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-03-02 20:41:52
Message-ID: 43d8ce650603021241u5394ba70n9bd356a72fdcda9f () mail ! gmail ! com
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I think you are probably correct.  I haven't managed to get scim
working on my machine (despite great efforts) but scim and skim will
be in the next release of dapper, so I will be able to play with them
then.

I would very much like to see skim become part of the standard kde
distribution (perhaps in kdebase/workspace).  It's pretty much
essential for asians that use kde.
If we do go this route (add skim to kde) then we can solve this
problem in the way you say.

On 3/2/06, LiuCougar <liucougar@gmail.com> wrote:
> As SCIM is an input method platform ( http://www.scim-im.org), it is
> straight forward to implement such kind of functionality. In fact,
> SCIM provides a built-in IMEngine, called rawcode, via which any
> unicode can be inputted.
>
> So if you use SCIM, then you can use rawcode input method whenever you
> want to input ANY unicode character directly (given you know its code)
>
> In my opinion, khotkeys is not the right place for this kind of purpose.
>
> On 3/3/06, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Yeah I haven't quite solved this problem.  At the moment it just
> > prints "hello!" heh. I was hoping it would be easy to fix :/
> >
> > On 3/2/06, Lubos Lunak <l.lunak@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > On Thursday 02 March 2006 16:25, John Tapsell wrote:
> > > > Since somebody brought up keys...
> > > >
> > > > I wrote a patch that let's you do alt-gr + a number to type in a
> > > > unicode number, like in windows.  If you look on wikipedia for some
> > > > symbol, it always has how to type it in windows, how to type on the
> > > > mac, but never how to type in kde :(
> > >
> > >  That's #82260.
> > >
> > > > So what I did was I hijacked khotkeys.  When you type in alt-gr+number
> > > > a popup in the top left comes up and shows what you have typed so far.
> > > >  Then when you have typed the right number of keys, it inserts that
> > > > character.
> > > >
> > > > It's a hack at the moment, and I'm too embarrassed by the code to even
> > > > show the patch.  But I wanted feedback on whether this was a good way
> > > > to procede.  Admittedly it would only work in kde etc, but the plus
> > > > side of that is then we can have the popup come up as you type it (and
> > > > I plan to have it show a preview of your options).  Should I continue
> > > > this way, or do it or another way?  Or is it a stupid idea? :)
> > >
> > >  The problem there is - how are you going to feed that character to the
> > > running application? If you add this feature to khotkeys then after
> khotkeys
> > > handles the user input and knows it has to enter <some char> to the
> running
> > > app, it needs to tell it. Input action in khotkeys simply sends
> XKeyEvent to
> > > the active app, but that one only contains keycode and modifiers state.
> And
> > > you cannot enter <some obscure unicode char> this way if you can't find
> the
> > > keycode and modifiers state for it (and you generally can't, otherwise
> you'd
> > > simply type it in normally). So I think this needs at least some code in
> the
> > > applications for it.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Lubos Lunak
> > > KDE developer
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