gnome dict applet does not work with scim

[Michal Suchanek]

Binary package hint: gnome-applets

I was unable to type any complex characters in the gnome dictionary applet even when scim is installed and working in other applications (tried scim-anthy).

Since the applet already has setup for dictionaries that use complex sctipts (Thai), this might be a problem for users wishing to use such dictionaries.

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

So while all other GTK/GNOME applications work fine with scim, and the gnome dictionary applet doesn't, it's still scim's fault?

I remember seeing silmilar things in Debian (around GNOME 2.12), and I don't use the dictionary applet anymore.

I can test, on Debian at least, if some GNOME maintainers show interest in fixing this bug. But if such bugs are just reassigned back to scim without any explanation whatsoever, I won't bother, and this bug can rot under scim forever.

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

unless there is an explanation what scim does wrong that it works with everything but the applet it looks like that applet's fault.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

the applet works fine without scim, why would it be due to it?

[Michal Suchanek (hramrach)]

On 20/05/07, Sebastien Bacher <email address hidden> wrote:
> the applet works fine without scim, why would it be due to it?
>

Because everything else works fine with scim, just the applet does
not. You can type only English in the applet not CJK or the like.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

reassigning to scim, the desktop team has not a lot of knowledge of what scim does exactly and how it can be confused. Could anybody from scim explain what the applet is doing wrongly and reassign to gnome-applets if the bug is due to it?

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

I'm not a programmer, and even if I am, without looking at the code I won't have much insight.

But for those programmers there who may be interested in this bug, there is a bug in GTK+ (http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331369) that has similar symptoms -- only one application doesn't work (gedit) with input methods, but English works fine.

That bug was fixed in 2.10.10, and feisty has 2.10.11, so it's not likely the same bug, I am just mentioning it hoping it can be helpful.

[Ming Hua (minghua)]

One obvious thing to try, of course, is to see if the bug still exists with a different input method.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Thank you for reporting. I think this may be fixed in 1.4.9 which is about to be released in Karmic. Please verify.

https://launchpad.net/~r0lf/+archive/hardy/+sourcepub/678492/+listing-archive-extra

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Am I correct to assume the issue is fixed now?

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Michael, please let us know if this is still a problem for you.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

nothing to do without further information.