[Pkg-ime-devel] Alternative README.Debian proposal
Osamu Aoki
osamu@debian.org
Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:43:28 +0200
On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 10:14:18AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > scim-m17n and libm17n-0 (for all languages: Arabic, Thai, Greek, ...)
> > anthy and (scim-m17n or scim-uim) (for Japanese)
>
> If Japanese belongs to "all languages", does that mean the user has to
> install scim-m17n anyway, so noone will use scim-uim?
Maybe "almost all languages" But some people do not want to get it.
> > (prime or canna) and scim-uim (for alternative Japanese)
>
> I think it may be worth adding a metapackage scim-japanese with proper
> dependencies (are these right?)
There are so many ways to support Japanese just with anthy as back end.
> Depends: anthy | prime | canna, scim-uim | anthy, scim-m17n | scim-uim
I see. This is a thought.
> Results should be (not tested, am in bit of a hurry):
>
> - apt-get install scim-japanese
> => install first alternative, anthy
> => skip scim-uim since anthy is already marked for installation
> => install scim-m17n
> - apt-get install scim-uim scim-japanese
> => install first alternative, anthy
> => do nothing, both installed already
> => skip scim-m17n since scim-uim is already marked for installation
> - apt-get install prime scim-japanese
> => install prime
> => skip anthy since prime is there
> => install scim-uim
> => skip scim-m17n
> - apt-get install canna scim-japanese
> (likewise)i
Now this sounds interesting idea. Hmmm... can you create patch for scim
source package by adding entry to debian/control?
> > Other package to consider are:
> > scim-table-zh, scim-table-ko, scim-table-ja, scim-tables-additional
>
> When should I as a sysadmin consider installing these tables?
Achademic interest :-) As far as I can tell for scim-table-ja, these
are useless for practical Japanese input.
> > Now press Ctrl-Space should switch input from English and Japanese. If
> > you have a notification area on the panel, there would also be an icon
> > there indicating the status of scim.
>
> Ctrl-Space or Shift-Space? (I use anthy, and it seems to be Shift-Space
> for me)
Hahaha, Try it. scim require you to be started with Ctrl-Space and it
activate small panel. If anthy is selected, Shift-Space toggles anthy
mode <-> english mode while scim panel is on.
Osamu
PS: My ISP is flaky.