Regarding SCIM

[Loïc Martin]

Abel Cheung a écrit :

>Hi Mauran,
>
>On 2/27/06, மு.மயூரன் <mmauran at gmail.com> wrote:
>  
>
>>I have tested 6.04 flight 4.
>> scim is there. working without problems. it is not slowing down application
>>start up. but still there are no any language input methods in default
>>repositories.
>> It'll be better if anyone put scim-m17n, scim-uim, scim-tables input
>>methods with all of their dependencies.
>>    
>>
>
>They are progressly being worked on; currently they are still in universe,
>but discussion is ongoing, and things without any extra dependency
>(like scim-table) may be able to move to main more easily (depending
>on outcome of discussion).
>
>Abel
>
Could it also be possible to add scim on Dapper's cd? Since part of it 
is in main, and since the rest might end up in main too.

Lots of people still don't have broadband (or even any net) access, and 
they rely on CD. With scim on the cd (along with 
scim-tables-ja/ko/zh/additional, scim-m17n, scim-uim, scim-chewing and 
scim pinyin) Ubuntu would be sure to be usable by most people. Even if 
some packages didn't get in main before release, they could still be on 
the cd (no licensing pb at least). And even if some are not proposed as 
a default (and for Chinese at least, scim is proposed and installed by 
the language selector by default), one could still configure it 
afterwards to input his own language.

I know place is not cheap on the cd, but the idea should be considered. 
This wouldn't be giving Asian language a better support than other ones 
in Ubuntu (it's different than offering dictionaries and check 
spellers), just allowing them to get the same level of basic support as 
other languages (unless I'm mistaken and most languages can't input 
anything out of the box).