What status is Input Method on Breezy?

[Hiroyuki Ikezoe]

Thank you for the reply.

On Thu, Aug 24, 2005 at 21:05-0700 , Matt Zimmerman wrote:

> The development team currently doesn't have enough experience with input
> methods to know:
> 
> - Which input method platform to choose (you seem to prefer scim, but others
>   have expressed preferences for other input methods.  we need objective
>   criteria)

Yes, I prefer scim, because I had written some codes of scim-anthy.

I don't have any objective criteria about Input Methods (SCIM, IIIMF and
UIM), but Fedora Core 5 took in scim-anthy [1] and dropped iimf-le-canna
(Japanese). Does it become an objective criterion? 

> - Which input methods work best for which languages (again, we need
>   objective assessments)

For Japanese, scim-anthy is the best choice I think, because its
behaviour is similar to Windows IME which is standard Japanese Input
Method on Windows. It's easy to use for begginers of Linux. In SUSE and
Mandriva scim-anthy are also a standard package for Japanese. 

I'm not sure about other languages, I send this mail to scim-devel
mailing-list, so please somebody in scim-devel explain about other
languages, especially James and Ming Hua.

> - What work needs to be done in order to make them work "out of the box"
>   (surely there is more to be done than simply installing the packages?)

I do not know about debian package in detail, Ikuya Awashiro who is the
maintainer of scim-anthy of debian and Ming Hua who is the maintainer
SCIM of debian are appropriate persons to explain it. Both persons are
subscribing this linst, maybe.

> We are in feature freeze for the 5.10 release, so intrusive changes will
> need to be delayed until after the release, but if there are simple and safe
> things that we can do in order to enable this functionality, we can consider
> it.

Thank you for your kindness. I will account for as far as I know.

[1] http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/devel/scim-anthy/