Re: Excise input methods

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Thu, 2011-03-31 at 23:19 +0530, Frederic Muller wrote:
> On 03/31/2011 11:17 PM, Shaun McCance wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > I've been struggling with documenting input methods. I have
> > a vague notion of how they work, but not enough understanding
> > to write really stellar help.
> >
> > I was just chatting with Owen, and he informed me we don't
> > even have a blessed upstream input method. Fedora uses IBus.
> > Some distros might use SCIM. And there's all sorts of overlap
> > between the IBus stuff and our keyboard layout selector.
> >
> > So if I'm to document input methods, I either need to write
> > complete docs for all the various input methods, or I have
> > to write crap like "Select an input method. You're on your
> > own now."
> >
> > What's more, this is all planned to change in 3.2:
> >
> > <owen>  shaunm: in 3.2 (if we get thngs done), keyboard layouts are
> > actually going to be closely integrated with input methods, so the top
> > level view is "I want in to write in Greek" vs. "I want to write in
> > Japanese" rather than "I want a Greek keyboard layout" vs. "I want a
> > Japanese input method"
> >
> > So right now, I'm thinking of cutting the page for input
> > methods, and removing the section referencing them from
> > tips-specialchars. It sucks, because this stuff really
> > needs docs in its current state. But it'll take me the
> > rest of the week to write something only barely passably
> > decent, and then we'll throw it away in six months.
> >
> > Objections?
> >
> > --
> > Shaun
> 
> Well I was starting to write some things about iBus following our 
> discussion.
> 
> In fact from a user and high level perspective there are really not much 
> differences (between scim and ibus) apart from the graphics. Usage is 
> similar.
> 
> So if you need a draft you can have it within 1-2 hours and we can 
> discuss it on the channel, else never mind.

Sure, if we can get something that's at least more helpful
than nothing, that's an improvement.

Thanks,
Shaun