What is SKIM / KDE Frontend ?

[wjp.reg]

I have googled the web and searched both kubuntu/ubuntu forums for a definitive explanation other than:

"skim is an input method platform based upon scim-lib under *NIX systems (including GNU/Linux and FreeBSD) systems optimized for KDE. It provides a GUI panel (named scim-panel-kde), a KConfig config module and SetupUIs for itself and scim-lib. It also has its own plugin systems which support on-demand loadable actions."

Which tells me nothing

I am running flight 4 and see the pretty little icon in the tray whihc seems to do nothing.What the heck is it for?

Anyone? Thanks in advance.

[askrieger]

Re: What is SKIM / KDE Frontend ?

Try google/linux for SCIM. It's a platform for the input of a variety of different national character sets. This is the first I've heard that SCIM is supported in Dapper. I guess I ought to pay attention to what's going on.

[wjp.reg]

Re: What is SKIM / KDE Frontend ?

Thanks for the response;

And how might I make use of this platform?

[askrieger]

Re: What is SKIM / KDE Frontend ?

It's mainly for programmers trying to write s/w that will do i/o in Asian (and European) languages that use what we North Americans think of as "unconventional" character sets. If this interests you, check out http://www.scim-im.org/