Re: RFC to remove "Input Method Status" menu option and implementation

Hi Tomaž,
Le 18/06/2018 à 15:14, Tomaž Vajngerl a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> In Writer, File->View we have "Input Method Status" option, which is
> for me in "disabled" status ~all the time and I guess for others too.
> The gerrit patch in [1] has a proposal to remove this from the menu,
> but before we proceed with that it would be good to get some consensus
> if this is "safe" to do.
>
> In the help file [2] it says this is only implemented for IIIMP IM
> framework in Linux that wasn't really used much and quickly replaced
> by SCIM and later with IBUS. If that's true this function doesn't work
> practically for nobody. Looking into the code this depends on X11 and
> isn't really implemented for anything else. X11 is already in the way
> out itself.
>
> If somebody is more familiar with this, can give more information
> about it and if this would be safe to remove?
>
> If we can agree with the removal, I'll apply the patch and remove the
> code from VCL.

For information, I forwarded your message to our l10n list and get no
feedback.

Cheers
Sophie