Re: RFS: scim-qtimm and scim-bridge for ZhengPeng Hou

[Ming Hua <minghua-list@sbcglobal.net>]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 10:11:07PM +0800, ZhengPeng Hou wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 08:20:25PM +0000, Wen-Yen Chuang wrote:
> > 
> > [2] For example, gcin's im-switch script enables Qt3 immodule 
> > automatically, when it found libqgcin.so. If the user remove 
> > gcin-qt3-immodule, then XIM will be used as the fallback default.
> > 
> Maybe we can set this in scim's conffile for im-switch, then it can
> use scim-qtimm/scim-bridge-client-qt automatically, according to guys 
> install any of them, if they haven't install any, then it will use xim
> defaultly.

I know that Ubuntu's scim uses this approach, which checks the existence
of the GTK/Qt IM module at runtime and changes the im-switch setting
accordingly.  I haven't looked at Debian's gcin yet, but I assume it
does a similar thing.

I am still not convinced that this is the right way to go.  I really
don't like scripts changing behaviors just because a newly installed
or removed package.  This also makes a user with GTK/Qt IM module
installed impossible to use XIM instead.

Currently Debian's scim uses two different im-switch settings, one with
XIM, the other with GTK/Qt IM module (although the Qt settings are not
enabled yet), and users can use im-swtich to choose between these two.
This approach has its own problem (more maintenance, more confusion to
the user, etc.), but I still like it better.

Ming
2006.12.06