[Bug 181300] Re: Kubuntu East Asian language display and input not as good as Ubuntu

[Yao Ziyuan]

Now I have found a solution to this bug:

Currently there are two distros that can make East Asian language
input available to the user's KDE desktop as a tray icon if the user
chooses/adds a East Asian language in his system, WITHOUT FURTHER
CONFIGURATION BY THE USER:

(1) Ubuntu, with which if you first add Chinese language support in
its System > Administration and enable "Input of Complex Scripts" (now
you will have the scim icon on system tray) and then install
kubuntu-desktop and then log into a KDE session, you will
automatically be able to input East Asian characters by pressing
Ctrl+Space to activate scim (in Ubuntu's KDE environment, there is no
scim icon on the system tray, but Ctr+Space still can invoke a SCIM
input method);

(2) Fedora 8 KDE Live CD, with which if you add Chinese language
support in its Control Center, you will automatically see the scim
icon added to the system tray. And Ctrl+Space can invoke a SCIM input
method.

These two distros share the same way to their succcess of making SCIM
available with zero user configuration:
1. They don't use SKIM at all (unlike Kubuntu);
2. The SCIM tray icon they make available belongs to SCIM itself, and
SCIM itself has a GTK front-end. So this tray icon is actually a GTK
applet that runs on the KDE taskbar.
3. The remaining task is figure out how to configure SCIM so that the
end user can see such a SCIM tray icon. I leave this problem to you
guys...

How to verify that you have successfully figured out an automatic
configuration procedure?
(1) There should be a "keyboard"-like tray icon;
(2) Right clicking this tray icon should lead to a popup menu showing
"Configure SCIM", "Reload Configuration", "Stick Window", "Hide
Toolbar", "Help", "Exit" (translated from Chinese translations).
(3) Left clicing this tray icon should see a list of available
languages and for each language a submenu of available input methods.
IT SHOULD NOT BE AN EMPTY MENU.

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Kubuntu East Asian language display and input not as good as Ubuntu
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