gnome2-2.9.91 and scim

Chen Lihong lihong.chen at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 06:22:11 PST 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 22:01 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 10:23 +0800, Chen Lihong wrote:
>> On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 21:03 -0500, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> >On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 09:58 +0800, Chen Lihong wrote:
>> >> I just upgraded to gnome 2.9.91 see
>> >> http://www.freebsd.org/gnome/docs/develfaq.html
>> >> But all gnome applications lost the input methods, in gnome 2.8
>> >> I can use scim to input non english characters. Not only scim 
>> >> but also all built-in input method gone.
>> >> My locale is en_US.UTF-8. Now only the stardict can see the GTK2's
>> >> input methods.
>> >
>> >Please provide more details.  What revision of the gnome_upgrade29.sh
>> >script did you use to upgrade from 2.8 to 2.9?  What exactly are you
>> >doing?  What are the exact results you are getting?  What are the exact
>> >results you expect?  What version of FreeBSD?
>> >
>> >Joe
>> >
>> My FreeBSD version is 6-CURRENT (kern.osreldate: 600014).
>> The gnome2 was upgraded from 2.8 to 2.9.
>> When in gnome 2.8, I use scim to input Chinese and Unicode symbol
>> characters. Press mouse right button on any GTK application's text area,
>> it will show a menu. The menu has [Input Methods >], move cursor to
>> there, it will show a sub-menu that has input methods like: [Default],
>> [Amharic (EZ+)]... [SCIM Input Method]...[X Input Method].
>> 
>> But in gnome 2.9, Only [Default] input method shown in all GTK
>> application except stardict (A gtk2 dictionary application).
>> So I think GTK2's input methods is fine, because stardict can use it.
>> The strange things is the stardict is the only application that can use
>> GTK2's input methods. All other applications can not use (Not only gnome
>> apps. but also gtk2 apps like gftp ...).
>
>This should be fixed now.
>
>Joe
>
>> 
>> /Lihong
>> 
>> 

Hi! Joe,
	After a long wait for redo upgrade procedure. I still can not use
GTK2's input methods.

Lihong



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