> On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Shawn Walker > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Sorry, I failed to understand it's annoying. Isn't > it just sitting > >> there? For the En-users, > >> what else need to do to input? > > > > Let me count the ways it annoyed me: > > > > * pointless use of resources unless you need input > switching > > > > * was constantly switching my input to latin mode > (this never happens to me > > in other operating systems) by a bad default > shortcut key > > Is this expected behavior or a known bug need a fix? > > > > > * increased desktop login time > > > > In short, I don't think it is unreasonable to > expect users that need > > alternate input methods to explicitly enable it > *once* after they login as > > it is likely not the common use case. > > > > Cheers, > > -- > > Shawn Walker > > > > No arguments from me about 1) and 3), actually I'm > okay with them. > I understand this change and respect it for En-users. > But I also need to > speak my opinion out since I believe I'm on behalf of > a large proportion of > Non-En-users. > > Thanks, > -Aubrey > _______________________________________________
I need to have input method enabled all the time, yet I firmly believe that it should not be enabled as default. Among all the mainstream Linux distros, I believe only SuSE still continues to have input method enabled by default. With my version of Windows (en_US), I have to go through a tedious procedure to enable input of non-English characters. For Chinese speakers, you probably don't want to use iiim anyway. OpenSolaris/IPS provides perhaps the easiest graphically-implemented path to install the more familiar SCIM. For some reason this great advantage has not been publicized to the extent it deserves. At the present time, the only inconvenience in using SCIM in OpenSolaris is that, after downloading all the packages, you have to manually add the following statement to the .profile file in your home directory: export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim Apparently this process can be further simplified. To summarize, I think it is a good decision not to enable the input method by default. The benefit doesn't justify the confusions. OTOH, local user groups should take a more active role in smoothing the transition to OpenSolaris for ordinary users from different locales. Jaris (JApanese solaRIS) is an excellent example. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
