Bug 465214

Summary:	emacs should disable XIM by default
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	emacs	Assignee:	Daniel Novotny <dnovotny>
Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	10	CC:	i18n-bugs, tagoh
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Description Jens Petersen 2008-10-02 07:38:28 UTC

Description of problem:
XIM (X Input Method protocol) is pretty intrusive for Emacs users specially for SCIM which defaults to using C-Space as its hotkey, and anyway Emacs provides its own superior builtin input methods designed for native input.  I propose that we turn off XIM by default Emacs for fedora.  It can still be enabled by users using the X resource useXIM.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run Emacs with SCIM enabled.
2. Press C-Space
  
Actual results:
2. SCIM is enabled

Expected results:
2. mark to be set

Additional info:
Emacs is capable of input most major Asian languages adequately by itself and also can support has package that support anthy, scim-bridge and uim via elisp, therefore is no need to have XIM enabled by default any longer.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2008-10-02 07:39:13 UTC

I think configuring the build with "--without-xim" should be sufficient to do this.

Comment 2 Akira TAGOH 2008-10-02 14:33:31 UTC

I thought building with --without-xim doesn't allow people to turn it on again with X resource.

Comment 4 Bug Zapper 2008-11-26 03:27:08 UTC

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 10 development cycle.
Changing version to '10'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping

Comment 5 Akira TAGOH 2009-04-01 11:26:44 UTC

We shouldn't take a mistake again on this change. just noticed that '--without-xim' option broke a dead key support on emacs earlier. see Bug #224626.