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- SCIM supports three different input modes -- XIM mode, GTK IM mode, and Qt 3
- IM mode. The Qt 3 IM mode needs an unofficial patch for Qt 3, because
- Trolltech has said that such patch can't go into Qt 3 as it's considered too
- intrusive. Debian's Qt maintainers has included this patch into Qt 3 packages
- since version 3:3.3.5-4.
-
- Qt 4 has plans to officially support input methods, but the current status in
- Qt 4.3.2 is still not clear (at least to the author of this README). And
- there is currently no Qt 4 IM module support for SCIM in Debian.
-
- Therefore, Qt/KDE 3 applications can use either XIM mode or Qt 3 IM mode for
- SCIM. These can be easily set and changed with the im-switch package. The
- XIM mode support is included in scim package. To use Qt 3 IM mode, you also
- need to install scim-qtimm package. Qt/KDE 4 applications only have the
- option of XIM mode, but it should work just fine.
-
- When using XIM mode in Qt 3, You need to pay extra attention on two things:
-
- 1. Both Qt and SCIM have their own settings for XIM style, so you need to make
- sure they match. There are two commonly used XIM styles, usually called "on
- the spot" and "over the spot". To change the style in SCIM, run scim-setup
- (or choose "SCIM Input Method Setup" from your menu), and go to the "FrontEnd
- -> Global Setup" page. The option to change XIM style is "Embed Preedit
- String into client window", when it is selected, you are using "on the spot"
- style; and when it is not selected, you are using "over the spot" style. To
- change the style in Qt, run qtconfig (or choose "Qt3 Configuration" from your
- menu), go to "Interface" tab, and choose the style in the "XIM Input Style"
- dropdown menu at the bottom. You usually don't need the "off the spot" or
- "root" style.
-
- 2. It is reported that some of the KDE applications don't work very well when
- using "on the spot" style. So if your application behaves strangely, you may
- want to try switching to "over the spot" style first.
-
- (Last updated by Ming Hua, on Sat, 13 Oct 2007)
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