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

Almost all other distros are using ibus as default input method
platform now. I would suggests that we do following changes for cooker
now:
1. kill all binary and source rpms named scim* and lib{,64}scim* in
contrib. None of them are actively maintained now, and we never
promoted them in the past.
2. move all binary and source rpms named scim* and lib{,64}scim* to
contrib. Those packages will be dropped one year later due to life
cycle of Mandriva Linux.
3. drop all source packages named ibus-table-* from contrib. Their
package layouts changed a lot, and I'll do the migration in svn later.
4. move all binary and source rpms named ibus* (including those
ibus-table-* binaries) from contrib to main.
5. do needed changes in rpmsrate and drakx.

2010/7/19 You-Cheng Hsieh <[email protected]>:
> 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.
>