KDE vs GNOME vs XFCE for CJK display-, input- and printing-friendliness
In the most recent (i.e. Etch, or Ubuntu Feisty) releases, which of the KDE, GNOME and XFCE will be most friendly to users who need a lot of CJK input, display and printing?
From my experience, GNOME can display Chinese text very nicely, whereas KDE replaces some Chinese words with a dot. For input, SCIM is automatically display whenever I right clink gedit or openoffice and select scim as the input method, but I can't figure out how to enter Chinese text under KDE (in a easy way)
How can these things be automated (as user-friendly as your Chinese Windows XP) under KDE? Also how good XFCE is in these things?
At this stage I have a laptop which is loaded with Kubuntu Edgy and my Desktop with Debian Sarge (GNOME). However I am thinking about switch my laptop back to GNOME when the Ubuntu Feisty is released because of the input and WPA encryption issues.
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Problems with Ubuntu Feisty Chinese input
hmm i am currently using Ubuntu Feisty. I am having a hard time on Chinese input because they are not really user friendly.. I'm not sure is it because this is a beta verison or because I am new in linux. Chinese words arrangement is pretty odd because they do not put the common words in the front. Also, there are no suggestion words after word I typed. For example, if i type phone, it would be great if they give me a list like number, book, contact... Any help will be good..
Cantonese input method has problem too
I only use Cantonese input method, and yes, it has the problem as you mentioned.
It's really depend on which
It's really depend on which chinese input method you use. As I know, Zhu Su is mainly focus on Smart pinyin, while you can find the full function in scim-pinyin. For Cangjie 3 (倉頡三代) / Quick (速成), I had already reorder it to similar the the order as Windows. For others, I can only said I don't use them and have no idea which order is better. Some input method may have some copyright issue, like 大易, and seem not possible to distribute the correct version legally.
Anthony, I suppose you have
Anthony, I suppose you have the ability to fix the cantonese input method! XP
I'm using Etch with KDE and
I'm using Etch with KDE and have followed the wiki instructions for setting up Chinese (fonts & input using scim). Whilst most qt/gtk applications behave properly and I can use scim to input Chinese, the one problem is Openoffice. When in Openoffice it simply ignores the hotkey to bring up scim - eg using the default hotkey of CTRL-Space only inserts a "hard space" when in OOo. I've changed the scim hotkey to "CTRL-Shift-Space" but still does nothing when using OOo.
Any help appreciated.
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