Hi,
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:30 PM, Aric Stewart aric@codeweavers.com wrote:
Hi,
As a developer who has done a lot of work in the IME/XIM areas of wine I thought I would chime in.
The IME/XIM stuff sounds interesting but I am really not sure how useful it is going to be. I will have to review what the GSoC outline is like but it feels like something that would not really get into wine not would regularly get used by people outside of wine. If you want to flesh it out a bit more I could maybe see where you are going with it but it feels more like a project "Making use of Wine" instead of "Improving Wine"
This is not a discouragement, just an invitation to sell it to me more. Make me see why you think this would be good for IME in Wine.
IMO using win32 IME on Linux is necessary for some people. In fact even most Chinese users don't know how many Chinese IMEs there exist, some of them have no alternative at all. Also, some handwriting input method editors and some speech-to-text input method editors have no alternative on Linux. Another reason to implement win32 IME bridge is, some win32 IME, such as sogou pinyin, google pinyin, are much better than there alternative on Linux ( ibus-pinyin, sunpinyin), maybe it is hard to understanded by non Chinese users...