----- "Peter Gordon" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Aside from the benefits of having the IMEs more modularized and whatnot, > what would be the user-visible dis/advantages of iBus versus existing > SCIM usage? I think the benefits will grow. Initially users should see quicker startup times for F11 and be able to add or remove IMEs without restarting their desktop for example. > For example, I use SCIM/Anthy to input Japanese text on a frequent basis > (using the Rõmaji method); and one thing I love about it is that it is > very easy to toggle between English and Japanese with its default > keyboard shortcut (ctrl + space). Is switching back and forth as easy > with iBus? Yep, ibus supports Ctrl+Space for toggling by default just like scim. > Another excellent feature of SCIM, for me, is the > handwriting-recognition features provided through Tomoe. This helps > me *immensely* in my study of Kanji characters since it allows me to search > for the character in StarDict or on Wiktionary when I do not yet know > its readings (and thus could not enter it with the phonetic Anthy/Rõmaji > method) as I can simply draw it on my Wacom tablet and then have it > inserted into the search window. Does iBus have similar capabilities > or a Tomoe plugin of its own? Not yet, I agree it would be nice to have ibus-tomoe. Actually scim-tomoe is just a thin layer over tomoe-gtk and tomoe itself so it should not be terribly hard to do. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
