[i18n] Input Method and Fonts improvements for Gutsy

[Arne Goetje]

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Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Arne Goetje 
> 
> | So, for making SCIM the system wide default, the following should be
> | done on the Live CD and in the default installation:
> | 1. install and configure scim and its modules
> | 2. install im-switch
> | 3. run as root:
> | 	im-switch -s scim
> | After a relogin, the user can toggle SCIM on/off by pressing CRTL+SPACE.
> 
> Grabbing ctrl-space as a default shortcut is quite unfortunate as this
> will make emacs more or less useless in the default configuration.
> C-SPC is used for marking the start or end of a region you want to
> operate on.

Well, this is the default key binding for ANY East-Asian input method
application, be it on Linux or Windows. So, East-Asian users will expect
it to be this way.
But you can adjust the key binding in the scim-setup GUI, if you need.
That said, I don't think that the common Ubuntu novice will use emacs as
their default editor, and those experts who do use emacs, will be able
to find a way around this problem. Maybe we can give them a hint in form
of a README file somewhere in the file system. ;)

> [...]
> 
> | The following packages may NOT be installed:
> |  * scim-uim: BROKEN, will trash the SCIM setup tool. Don't install it.
> |  * scim-chinese: old version of scim-pinyin, not compatible with the
> | current scim package; breaks dependency handling.
> 
> If those are actually properly broken and useless, then I think they
> should be removed from the archive.
> 
Agreed.

Cheers
Arne		
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