Re: Input Method of Gnome

["Hilary Cheng" <hilarycheng usa net>]

Hello:D

>"Hilary Cheng" <hilarycheng@usa.net> writes:
>
>> As I concern,  how about the current X Application ? If we use backend
XIM
>> one,
>> current X application maynot supported ( I donno whether it is correct or
>> not).
>> If Gnome got all type of application that we want, I think backend one is
>> the best.
>
>That's right.  But Niibe is not concerned about this and I tend to
>agree.  We are mainly talking about GNOME applications here.  You'll
>hopefully not have to use non-GNOME apps which don't bring their own
>input-server handling with it.  The only non-GNOME application I can
>think of is Emacs/XEmacs.


Only Emacs / XEmacs ???? :O amazing. It mean except Emacs and XEmacs
, other applications that X got, Gnome also got it ? right ? :o

>> My concern is, not all the current applications of X got source Like
>> WordPrefect, etc. We can't modifty it to backend one.
>
>Sorry to destroy your dreams but Wordperfect and all the rest of these
>ex-Windows applications will not use the XIM X Windows methods and of
>course also not the GNOME methods.  They use their WINE stuff which
>must somehow be mapped to the Windows API.  There is not much room for
>fancy X extensions.


What a bad news........A Good Gnome project should got different kinds
of Applications to support it. If XIM can't support current X Application,
it would be bad. IMO, number of non-english users are much more than
english users. It would be better to serve all of people in the world.

>And: of course you don't want to use WP in the first place.  Hopefully
>Lyx or whatever will use Gtk soon and have everything you ever want.


Haaaa:D , it is ok for me, I can go back to M$ to type my Chinese
Document. -_-
If Linux can support International Language in a better way, it would be
good. Since M$ always got strange problem on mixing Chinese/English/etc.
Now, Linux Desktop is just started. If we can put more effort on this issue,
programmers and users feel comfortable on using it  any languages w/o reboot
or sths or recompile or patching or service pack ( :p ) else (that's the
success of Linux ...wahaha). I hope Gnome's Author would take some time have
a look on this. If it is possible, I can contrib to work on this issue.

Regards,

Hilary