Re: xim doesn't work (scim)

[Zhang Weiwu]

Omniscient wrote:
> On May 4, 11:46 pm, Zhang Weiwu <zhangwe...@realss.com> wrote:
>   
> > Checken & egg problem. If you don't offer applications why people want
> > to type Chinese into your applications?
> >     
>
> Well, that's why I think it should focus on application developments
> that actually create revenue. People would prefer more to type
> anything into an application if the act of typing give them some money.
> Once we have money, we can buy more attention from i18n coders et al.
>
>   
It depends on the development model & how you see it. You can also 
through "bad" application to users and if they can use, they might want 
to improve it. Some projects succeeded doing so. Me as an example might 
grow a lot of interest in working on optimizing user interface logic of 
PRINCE but since I cannot type things there I am not motivated to 
contribute ideas. Non-developer like me are also sometimes aiding projects.
> > Can you explain further why you think DTP is an area that benefits from
> > GNUStep design? I happen to be quite used to existing DTP solutions thus
> > want to know the details, if GNUstep is really well designed, how can it
> > help DTP workers?
> >     
>
> Since GNUstep's whole display system is all done in vector based, it's 
> pretty easy to provide WYSIWYG from the widget level, eg. you print a 
> widget you get a 1:1 postscript. It's text system is also very 
> powerful and very well designed and can be rotated by any arbitrary 
> degrees, pretty fit into DTP requirements by that it could allow 
> better integration and interaction between view and model.
Sounds interesting. Let me think, that may be inspiring to user 
interface design too.