[உபுண்டு_தமிழ்]Recent developments - scim, scim-tables, scim-m17n

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Sethu wrote:
> Friends,
>
> Some recent releases / changes among scim components  - news from
> scim-im ( http://www.scim-im.org/ ) of interest to tamil keyboard
> users:
>
> 1. SCIM 1.4.5  released -08th Oct - mainly bug fix version. To see
> features click "Read more" for these under latest news release column
> on http://www.scim-im.org/
> (SKIM-1.4.5 had been released past June )
>
> I haven't updated my scim installation yet to this release in the distros I use.
>
> 2. SCIM_TABLES-0.5.7  released -09th Oct. And two days later its
> tar-ball got renewed on discovery of a bug. The "Read more" pages of
> these two are respectively:
>
> http://www.scim-im.org/news/imengines_news/scim_tables_0_5_7
> http://www.scim-im.org/news/imengines_news/new_scim_tables_0_5_7_tarball
>
> Interestingly, this SCIM_TABLES release introduces a new layout for
> tamil - called "Remington". I did not update my scim-tables to this
> release 0.5.7 but pulled out this tamil-Remington from the tar ball
> and included with scim-tables-0.5.6 in my Ubuntu-Dapper. It is a
> typewriter layout and I pressed a few keys to compare with the
> corresponding for XKB Tamil-Unicode tw layout  - they appear to be
> same.
>
> If there are no difference between the layout of this scim-tables
> Remington and that of XKB tamil-unicode then I would recommend a tamil
> typewriter user to stick to XKB one (at least on GNOME that I am more
> familiar with) because  XKB is less problematic and more longstanding
> than scim framework (scim is of more value for those layouts for which
> xkb is not or less suited - i.e., phonetics like romanised,
> transliteration and tamilnet99)
>
> 3. scim-m17n-0.2.1 released -10th Oct. A bug-fix and minor enhancement
> version. As mentioned on [
> http://www.scim-im.org/news/imengines_news/scim_m17n_0_2_1  ] they
> have removed the name prefix: M17N- in the scim panel icon listing.
> See the following two scrn-shots I made on my Ubuntu-Dapper, the first
> being before with earlier scim-m17n 0.2.0 version bridge and the
> second being after replacing it with scim-m17n-0.2.1.
>
> http://i10.tinypic.com/4bq6y6s.png
> http://i10.tinypic.com/2v1rz35.png
>
> The M17N prefix for the five m17n-tamil keyboards in the first are not
> there in the second.
>
> ~Sethu
>
>   


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