Re: m17nlib support in uim (Was: Re: [m17n] New uim.spec...)

At Fri, 26 Aug 2005 01:00:18 +0900 (JST),
UTUMI Hirosi wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> --- Mike FABIAN <[email protected]> wrote:
> > UTUMI Hirosi <[email protected]> :
> > 
> > > - enable uim-m17nlib.
> > 
> > This is disabled on purpose on request of Zhe Su <[email protected]>
> > (SCIM author) because scim-m17n is also available. scim-m17n
> > works just fine and supporting m17n in uim as well is therefore
> > not necessary and only makes it more confusing for beginners.
> 
> Then we should remove uim-anthy/uim-canna/uim-skk (or uim itself),
> because scim supports anthy/canna/skk.
> 
> We can remove scim-uim for Japanese, then UIM packages will be optional.
> Beginners will not be confused.
> (Mandriva's uim packages support m17nlib.)
> 
> I think scim-anthy and scim-uim-anthy will confuse beginners.
> scim-anthy is good enough for most users.

I agree to remove scim-uim from useability perspective, but then there
would be people screaming about the regression on the latest version :)

> > > SUSE installs scim-uim for the default Japanese input.
> > > I think scim-anthy is better.
> > 
> > No, scim-uim is not the only default Japanese input, *both* scim-uim
> > *and* scim-anthy are installed by default.
> 
> SUSE 10.0 beta2 didn't install scim-anthy for Japanese.
> (Is it my mistake ?)

Might be.  Anyway, it's already fixed on beta3.


Takashi

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