[Fedora-i18n-bugs] [Bug 505100] need xinput conf file for XIM to enable X locale compose maps

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--- Comment #72 from Jens Petersen <petersen at redhat.com>  2009-10-30 10:01:24 EDT ---
Thank Marko for the good detailed summary and the Finnish perspective also.
(I am glad this also resurfaced in the i18n Test Day this week.)

(In reply to comment #71)
> Problems arise especially when these GTK builtin rules conflict with
> national/locale specific rules like in pt_BR or fi_FI. Using some character
> specific trick like im-cedilla is really not a feasible solution to the issue
> which literally covers thousands of compose rules.

Right - as also noted here earlier.

> 1. Use any Input Method system like IBus or SCIM if configured by the user
> 2. If no Input Method system configured use X/locale settings (default)
> 3. If both previous methods fail or are unavailable use GTK builtin rules

My suggests are:

1) avoid im-cedilla.so
2) install gtk2-immodules-xim by default
(or better move im-xim.so back into gtk2?)
3) try to make im-xim.so the default gtk immodule
(which corresponds to Marco's (2) instead of
gtk-im-context-simple, as Akira also suggested.
4) everyone (gtk, qt, X) happy

In fact I have pushed for this in the past (see bug 452938)
to bring parity with qt which has long defaulted to XIM
(probably because of its European heritage?:)

I think fedora-i18n can help to work on this in the coming days,
though it is getting rather late for f12-final...
It might be more realistic to target day-zero updates to
not risk destabilizing and further delaying the release
at this stage: I think that was our original intention.

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