On Tue, 1 Jun 2010 02:36:36 +0300 Simos Xenitellis <simos.lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> dijo: >The purpose of IBus is to accommodate special scripts with complex >writing rules, which are a handful, such as Chinese, Korean, Japanese >and Burmese. >All other scripts, such as anything Latin-based, Cyrillic, Greek, >Thai, Arabic, etc stay for the foreseeable future with the default >input method, based on GTK+ (for gtk+ applications). >Apart from Fedora, Ubuntu uses IBus if the user specifically selects >to write in one of the 'complex scripts'. > >IBus does not replace what you get with gtk+ so I would not consider >the 'non-IBus' input method as old. The precise wording would be that >IBus is special, and is to be used for those cases that require >complex writing systems, such as Chinese. > >IBus replaces something called SCIM. > >The keyboard layouts found in System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layouts come >from the X.Org project (generic GUI project for Linux systems) and are >used by default by both GNOME and KDE applications. GNOME applications >have Ctrl+Shift+U, and I think that KDE applications have a similar >shortcut, which are independently implemented. >Both GNOME and KDE programs can be switched so that they work with the >IBus input method (select in Settings and re-login), which in this >case the System/Preferences/Keyboard/Layouts are replaced with the >IBus keyboard layouts. I am confused because I have no idea what iBus is, or any of the other components mentioned. I am a linguist and I need to type characters from several Unicode pages (IPA, combining diacritics, and a few others). Over the years I have learned the codes for the characters that I use - for example, if I need an esh I type Ctrl-Shift-u + 283. Keyboard layouts are great if you need to switch from one language to another, but I cannot use a keyboard layout because there are too many characters - roughly 140, plus about 20 optional combining diacritics. If I upgrade my Fedora 11 to Fedora 13, will I still be able to use Ctrl-Shift-u + Unicode value? If so, do I have to change the default settings somehow? _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
