Fedora 7: SCIM Launch Problem

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Wed Apr 18 18:48:02 UTC 2007


Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Warren Togami (wtogami at redhat.com) said: 
>>>> 3) Modify im-chooser to allow the user to override the automatic SCIM
>>>> launch behavior.  im-chooser should offer something like:
>>>>    * Always Use [SCIM]
>>>>    * Follow the system-wide configuration [SCIM]
>>>>    * Never use input methods
>>> I would guess that this is pretty easy to do?
>> With the exception of translations, yes.
> 
> The issue I see here is that 'follow the system-wide configuration' is not
> too informative to the user - what is the system-wide config? How should
> they know that?
> 
> Would "Only use SCIM for non-Latin locales" be better? Something else?
> 

I agree "Follow the system-wide configuration" is confusing and 
non-ideal.  I would have chosen something closer to "Automatic" myself. 
  But changing the label of that now would require more disruptive 
translation changes too...

Warren




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