Re: [Maintainers] To make scim back to default IM or not, for 2010 Spring

2010/7/19 Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:11:47PM +0800, Funda Wang wrote:
>> 2010/6/18 Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
>> > On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 09:48:06PM +0800, Funda Wang wrote:
>> >> 2010/6/18 Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau-4qZELD6FgxhWk0Htik3J/[email protected]>:
>> >> > You-Cheng sent an email about similar issues 10 days ago, but suggesting
>> >> > to switching to ibus. I'd feel more comfortable about a switch if all
>> >> > parties involved agreed on which IME to use :)
>> >> ibus currently sits in contrib, and selecting it changes too much for
>> >> both media and ISOs.
>> >
>> > This doesn't tell me if ibus is better or worse than scim. If we do the
>> > change for 2011.0, the ibus issue you mention aren't issue, they are
>> > easy to solve.
>> Sure. ibus is actively maintained upstream, and scim seems dead for
>> about two years. And fedora and ubuntu defaults to ibus now.
>
> If something is to be done for input methods for Chinese (ie switch to
> scim or ibus), now would be a good time to at least tell us which one is
> the best so that we can decide how to make the transition :)
>
> Christophe
>
Hello,
Thanks for notifying this matter. I would recommend migrating to ibus,
personaly. The specific modules required by traditional Chinese users
should be ibus-chewing and ibus-table-chinese, while chewing is
prefered as default for traditional Chinese.

For local Linux community in Taiwan, gcin is more widely used than any
other input mothod platforms. However, I suppose that distribution
developers need a more well developed platform for multi-lingual
support. In this case, since scim seems less actively developed for a
while, I think ibus should be a more suiable option.

Perhaps this should also be discussed in cooker-i18n list?

Regards,

You-Cheng Hsieh

ps. this message also sends to Shiva Huang, the Mandriva translation
coordinator of zh_TW, and Frank Weng, the KDE zh_TW translation
coordinator who is also a Mandriva user.