kimtoy in kdereview

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dijous, 16 d'agost de 2012, a les 13:06:55, nihui va escriure:
> hi
> 
> Yes, we have kimpanel plasmoid in plasma-addons, and we have skim for scim
> in old kde3 days. kimtoy is technically the standalone version of kimpanel
> plasmoid with many additional features. Both kimtoy and kimpanel plasmoid
> are strictly not input method framework like ibus, they act as frontend(or
> panel) for the underlying input method frameworks. Users can still
> write/type using ibus built-in frontend without KDE ones, but some nice
> intergrations between KDE and input method frameworks will be missing, such
> as storing ibus settings in kconfig instead of gconf/dconf and consistent
> style in KDE environment, etc.
> 
> the benefits of kimtoy over the current kimpanel plasmoid includes:
> no dependence on a running plasma desktop, you can use it in other DE like
> xfce... kconfig intergration for ibus and scim
> very powerful theming support and customization
> more intergration, thumbnailers and strigi analyzers

Is there any chance in sharing code between kimtoy and kimpanel plasmoid? Or 
it doesn't make sense?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> best wishes,
> nihui
> 
> 
> 在 2012-08-16 00:44:45，"Albert Astals Cid" <aacid at kde.org> 写道：
> 
> >El Dissabte, 11 d'agost de 2012, a les 11:43:45, nihui水竹院落 va escriure:
> >> hi all
> >
> >Hi
> >
> >> I am very happy to inform you all that kimtoy is now in kdereview. The
> >> final target is extragear-utils.
> >> 
> >> kimtoy is an input method frontend for KDE. It is an alternative to
> >> kimpanel plasmoid. kimtoy aims to provide a stable and intergrated
> >> frontend for input methods, such as fcitx, scim and ibus. kimtoy makes
> >> easy for fcitx/ibus/scim users. These three input methods should work
> >> out of box.
> >> 
> >> it has a powerful theming system, it supports hundreds of sogou skins
> >> from
> >> http://pinyin.sogou.com/skins/ (in chinese) and fcitx skins. it is a
> >> quite
> >> handy and useful tool for East Asian language users. If you type
> >> chinese/japanese/korean etc, try it and you will love it ;)
> >> 
> >> app page with some screenshots:
> >> http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=140967
> >> 
> >> 
> >> your reviews and comments are welcome :)
> >
> >Didn't we have something like this previously? If we had what are the
> >benefits of this over what we have at the moment?
> >
> >And if we did not have anything like this, how did people write before?
> >
> >Sorry for being 0 knowledgeable in this issue :-)
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >  Albert
> >  
> >> best wishes,
> >> nihui