Re: do XFree86 accept XIM projects?

It's not so correct.

As I know, minichinput was derived from Chinput which was a Chinese
input method software developed by Turbolinux. Then Chinput/Minichinput
were widely adopted by many other distributions, like RedHat etc.

Until Turbolinux 8.0, Chinput was the default Simplified Chinese input
method. But now it has been replaced by a totally new Input Method
platform in Turbolinux 10 Desktop, which is called SCIM.

I'm the author of SCIM and was a maintainer of Chinput. In my view, the
structure and technology of Chinput/Minichinput is too old, and will not
fit into the modern Desktop technology very well.

So please consider to drop Minichinput/Chinput into trash and start to
use some other modern input method platform instead, for example, SCIM,
IIIMF etc.

Regards
James Su

> Hello. I'm zhangweiwu from the minichinput project. This is the first 
> time I post to XFree86 list, so please forgive me if I posted to the 
> wrong list.
> 
> To be brief: minichinput is a Chinese input method server. Can XFree86 
> accept minichinput as its subproject?
> 
> Minichinput is the most widely used *nix input server among the 
> simplified Chinese users (or at least I think so). Linux distros like 
> RedHat and Turbolinux adopted minichinput as the default input server. 
> minichinput handles both GB, Big5 and UTF8, it is lightweighted, doesn't 
> rely on gtk/qt.
> 
> Who/what list should I contact if I wish to make minichinput a 
> subproject of XFree86, and release as part of it? Do XFree86 accept this 
> kind of subprojects?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
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