[indiana-discuss] [ug-bjosug] Fwd: iiim panel doesn't start automatically

[Colin Zou]

Aubrey Li wrote:
> Hey Guys,
>
> What's your opinion about this issue?
> This is really unacceptable to me.
>   
Thanks for forwarding this email and asking for opinions.

I don't see any benefits by disabling iiim-panel and IM 
activate/deactivate trigger key. It's better to enable it. I believe a 
lot of users (including me) want it enabled by default. It is not right 
to assume that English users won't switch keyboard layout.

Colin

> Thanks,
> -Aubrey
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems <Fuyuki.Hasegawa at sun.com>
> Date: Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 10:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [indiana-discuss] iiim panel doesn't start automatically
> To: Aubrey Li <aubreylee at gmail.com>
> Cc: Indiana Discuss <indiana-discuss at opensolaris.org>
>
> It was based on the feedbacks we received.
> We assumed majority of English users won't switch keyboard layout
> and don't need to know/see the current IM status. Without iiim-panel
> and IM trigger key, users can input Latin characters by Compose key
> sequences. And users can change the behavior easily via iiim-properties.
>
> Thanks,
> Fuyuki
>
> Aubrey Li wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:01 PM, Fuyuki Hasegawa - Sun Microsystems
>> <Fuyuki.Hasegawa at sun.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> Oh, I've just remembered a default change.
>>> iiim-panel and IM activate/deactivate trigger key have been disabled
>>> for English UTF-8 locales from 2008.11. This change applies to new users.
>>> To enable them, use iiim-properties.
>>>
>>> Fuyuki
>>>
>>>       
>> iiim-properties works.
>>
>> I wonder why this behavior is changed? To be more friendly to the EN-input
>> users while not to the others?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> -Aubrey
>>