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

Hello,

I think iBus is better than SCIM for Japanese language.

We often met the problems between firefox, flash and input methods.
iBus debelopers will fix it, but SCIM developers will not do it.
The latest SCIM was released at 2009-04-19.

iBus supports Anthy and Mozc.
Mozc is a Google's Japanese conversion engine.
People say it's better than Anthy, so Japanese users will accept iBus.
(iBus also supports SCIM.)

You-Cheng Hsieh wrote:
> For local Linux community in Taiwan, gcin is more widely used than any
> other input mothod platforms.

I think we can keep gcin in Mandriva's Main repository,
but we should not include non-multilingual input methods in multilingual ISOs.

Funda Wang wrote:
 > 2. move all binary and source rpms named scim* and lib{,64}scim* to
 > contrib.
 > 4. move all binary and source rpms named ibus* (including those
 > ibus-table-* binaries) from contrib to main.

Some users need SCIM, so we should keep it in Contrib.
iBus is good for the default multilingual input method in Mandriva 2011.

 > 5. do needed changes in rpmsrate and drakx.
///
--- lang.pm	2010-07-21 00:06:34.000000000 +0900
+++ lang.pm.new	2010-07-21 00:07:50.000000000 +0900
@@ -680,7 +680,7 @@
  	XMODIFIERS => '@im=ibus',
  	packages => {
  		generic => sub { qw(ibus-table ibus-m17n), if_($is_kde4, 'ibus-qt4') },
-		ja => sub { qw(ibus-anthy) },
+		ja => sub { qw(ibus-mozc) },
  		zh => sub { qw(ibus-pinyin ibus-chewing) },
  		ko => sub { qw(ibus-hangul) },
  	},
///

mozc source rpm:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mdk-ut/files/10-cooker/cooker/

Regards,
Hirosi
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