Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Posted Mar 11, 2006 23:34 UTC (Sat) by jyp (guest, #29846)
Parent article: Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

In spite of the fact that I am experiencing some frustrating problems with Kubuntu (no
sound in Kaffeine, scim/skim not working and some more...) and that I am eager to
see if Dapper would bring a cure, I would gladly wait a few weeks for a more
polished release.

Although I am far from being a geek, I have been using Linux exclusively for about 2
years (Suse then Debian then Ubuntu/Kubuntu) but I must say that a fair amount of
perseverance and faith was needed to keep on with it, especially when one tries to
build a web site in three languages (Traditional and Simplified Chinese, English and
French). I had to invest quite a lot of time just to be able to switch between English
and French keyboard (the cure was a symlink to be define in /etc/X11/xkb/) and we
unfortunately had to rely on a MS machine to input the Chinese. So my Chinese
friends are for the moment being still in the MS world; what a pity.

BTW, it would also be a nice opportunity to synchronize the releases of
Ubuntu/Kubuntu with the summer and the winter solstices!

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Posted Mar 12, 2006 9:13 UTC (Sun) by job (guest, #670) [Link]

Couldn't you use the kxkb applet to switch layouts?

Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Posted Mar 12, 2006 17:24 UTC (Sun) by jyp (guest, #29846) [Link]

After a fresh install of Kubuntu Breezy, the keyboard layout window was empty
(System setting > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard layout); after reading many
forum posts I found a cure: create a symlink (/usr/share/X11/xkb -> /etc/X11/xkb).

Now the keyboard layout window was offering choices and I selected
Canada_french; the little icon appeared in the system tray; but I still cannot
manage to make the switch-keyboard shorcut works; I have to use the mouse
which is annoying.

The Kaffeine problem: before the fresh install, I had sound. Now no sound. But this
problem is much less of a problem for me than the scim/skim problem.

I am putting much hope in Dapper even if it is released later; better later and
better.

Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Posted Mar 12, 2006 23:38 UTC (Sun) by mepr (guest, #4819) [Link]

i believe your chinese support problem will be fixed if you install the following packages, plus the ones apt will recommend when you apt-get install:

kde-i18n-zhcn language-support-zh language-support-zh-cn language-pack-zh

the command "apt-cache search language-support" will show you all of the available languages.

Now, I tried this myself for japanese on a dapper install, because I was having the same problem.. only english was appearing in the kde-panel's internationalization. And the problem was solved. KDE's system-settings->Regional & Accessibility->Add Language now shows Japanese as an option. Now, as for keyboard layout, I don't know what to say, because Japanese was already listed as a keyboard layout choice. But perhaps I had already installed some other relevant packages.

As I said, that was on dapper, but my non-gui breezy badger server has those same packages available, and I would guess they would likewise fix the problem.
Note: i didn't notice the chinese packages at first because they are using zh instead of the cn that I expected.

Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Posted Mar 12, 2006 17:30 UTC (Sun) by ngiger@mus.ch (subscriber, #4013) [Link]

As my wife is from Korea I also had to setup a solution to enable her to
input korean/hangul. My solution was to create some shortcuts on the
Desktop for the program my wife needs to give input in korean (KMail and
OpenOffice) while still having all the menus in german.
As Input Manager I use Amy, but I think the same would apply to skim (but
not tested). The scripts look like this:
#! /bin/bash
export XMODIFIERS=@im=Ami
export LC_CTYPE=ko_KR.eucKR
export LANGUAGE=de
#export LANG=ko_KR.eucKR
ami &
oowriter
Then using <Shift>-<Space> I can switch between korean and german input.
In OO/kmail you also have to specify a font which supports the korean
input and/or specify the encoding.
I hope this helps for you too

Ubuntu "Dapper" delay proposed

Posted Mar 16, 2006 14:57 UTC (Thu) by jordi (subscriber, #14325) [Link]

Incidentally, a few Ubuntu people are gathering in London to work on this and other issues:
http://lwn.net/Articles/175719/
If you have the time, we really welcome your input on #ubuntu-l10n.