Fedora 7: SCIM Launch Problem

[Jeremy Katz]

On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 14:18 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> Yesterday's Change
> ==================
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=229742
> We attempted to solve this rare groupremove problem by making SCIM
> install with the base-x group.  This means that *ALL* Fedora desktop
> installations will have SCIM both installed and running.

Note that the live CD for Fedora 7 has been including SCIM in all cases
since day 1.  So this is just increasing our overall consistency in
addition to fixing the groupremove case.

[snip]
> Solution
> ========
> Jeremy Katz, the RH Desktop team and I have agreed upon the following.
> 
> 1) Undo the hack made in Bug #235435.

Should be straight-forward...

> 2) Change SCIM's automatic launching to be locale specific.  For
> example, Asian languages are in a SCIM automatic list, so launch
> automatically in those languages.  Do not launch SCIM automatically in
> other languages.

Also should be straight-forward.

> 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?

> Can we please implement this before Fedora 7?  The SCIM running by
> default in all desktop languages is unacceptable, and the hack in Bug
> #235435 confuses the issue, hiding the real problem.
> 
> We are willing to be flexible during the freeze to fix this.

How much can we get in the next day or two so that we can also get eyes
on the change with test4?  Can we at least get the first two and the
backend of the third (ie, not necessarily the UI but the setting and a
simple description of how to manually do it)?

Jeremy