On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 12:06:32PM -0400, Ambrose Li wrote: > Package: scim > Version: 1.0.2-3 > Severity: wishlist
Hi Ambrose, Thanks for reporting. > The "Shift" hotkey comes from the Microsoft pinyin input methods. > However, it is very frustrating because it is very easy to > accidentally hit the "Shift" key (e.g., when thinking about how > something should be typed) and then all the partially-typed characters > are lost. Also, input methods used in Taiwan and Hong Kong > traditionally do not have a "Shift" hotkey, so when the "Shift" hotkey > changes the input mode to "English", the user will have a hard time > figuring out why he/she cannot type Chinese any more. > > For this reason, I think it is essential to have some way to > completely disable the "Shift" hotkey. The "Ctrl+Space" hotkey already > does the same function. I agree this will be annoying to users who are not familar with it (and don't use it), and there should be a option to disable it. However apparently this is an upstream issue, and all I can do is reporting to upstream. I would like to clarify one thing though - you are talking about the "Smart Pinyin" input method in the scim-chinese package, don't you? Since this shift key behaviour is specific to scim-chinese, and I've just tested m17n-zh-py, shift key doesn't switch between English/Chinese there. If so, I'm going to reassign this to scim-pinyin package (scim-chinese is renamed to scim-pinyin by upstream). Regards, Ming 2005.10.26 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
