Make SCIM work with KDE and OpenOffice

[Guest chris_99]

Hi.

How can I make SCIM work with KDE and OpenOffice? Currently, it works fine with (gtk??)-Apps like gqviw and mozilla. There is a panel-applet visible in kicker. But I cannot activate the Chinese input for KDE-apps like kedit. I am using de_DE.UTF-8 in my LANG. Since SCIM works with some apps, this should be OK.

 

I am using Mandrake 9.2 with almost everything updated to 10.0 or 10.1CE. I updated scim from cooker to:

 

libscim0-0.99.9-1mdk

libscim-chinese0-0.4.2-2mdk

scim-0.99.9-1mdk

scim-chinese-0.4.2-2mdk

scim-tables-0.4.3-1mdk

 

I also tried "skim" from Cooker, but I cannot make it work at all...

 

Any ideas?

 

chris

[jonas]

Maybe this helps - for 10.1:

 

Internationalization in Mandrakelinux 10.1

a mini guide to SCIM/UIM

 

http://www.h4.dion.ne.jp/~apricots/mandrake/miniguide.html

 

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jonas

[Guest chris_99]

Thanks, jonas. It's a wonderful guide. Skim works now seamlessly... with gtk-apps :sad:

I think there is a problem with QT and the SCIM engine. Starting a KDE-app from konsole gives me the following message:

QInputContext: no input method context available

I tried to add

QT_IM_SWITCHER=imsw-multi 
QT_IM_MODULE=scim

before or after

GTK_IM_MODULE=scim

in my ~/.i18n. But a

echo $QT_IM_SWITCHER

or

echo $QT_IM_MODULE

just gives me an emty line. GTK_IM_MODULE is fine. It seems that the QT_IM_* are reset somewhere else again (or not read at all).

 

Does SCIM not work (any more) with QT? Is sth. broken in Community or Cooker?

[jonas]

Sorry, chris - can't help you with your problem.

Saw on the board are some members from china and .jp - hopefully they know a fix.

 

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jonas

[Guest chris_99]

I think it has sth to do with "qtimm". Maybe there's some problem with that and KDE and / or Mandrake. but I did not figure it out yet :-(