IME for drawing characters under Linux

[youpii]

the title says all ...

is there a Linux Chinese IME that allows you to type pinyin and draw characters, like Microsoft pinyin IME 2003 does under Windows ?

[cwmccabe]

Are you familiar with SCIM? http://www.scim-im.org/?

It doesn't allow you to draw characters, but you can type pinyin.

I'm actually bumping this thread to see if anyone else has suggestions... I'm specifically interested to see if there's some type of character drawing input method available for Linux. All I want is something like the 'handwrite characters' feature available on nciku. I'm offline much of the time, so nciku is often not a solution. I want an app that lives on my desktop.

[flameproof]

It doesn't allow you to draw characters,

As far as I know Xp IME can also not draw characters

[ep1200]

XP IME does offer some basic handwriting recognition, but i think it is not enabled by default. To enable it: you open the IME PAD then right-click on the dictionary icon (the book with the looking glass) in the left border. Choose Settings. Then add Handwriting (zh-tw) - as the name implies it works for traditional characters (though outputs unicode).

[toads]

You can handwrite characters with scim, I think I did it by installing scim-tomoe or something.

[cwmccabe]

Toads (or anyone), could you explain how to install scim-tomoe? I downloaded the files listed below, but I haven't found good instructions of which ones to install and how to install them.

tomoe-0.6.0.tar.gz

scim-tomoe-0.6.0.tar.gz

uim-tomoe-gtk-0.6.0.tar.gz

tomoe-gtk-0.6.0.tar.gz

Here's a little more information on tomoe for others interested. I'm not sure, however, how up-to-date the information is.

Tomoe website: http://tomoe.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/en/blog/index.rb

tomoe overview with screenshots: http://www.geocities.jp/ep3797/tomoe_01.html

Sourceforge files: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=193138

[toads]

I'm afraid I don't recall the specifics, it was a while ago. I run ubuntu and I added the http://archive.ubuntulinux.jp/ubuntu-ja repository, IIRC installing scim-tomoe from that was enough.

[russmeier]

You didn't tell us which LInux you were using. I use SCIM all the time on Novell/Suse Enterprise Desktop 10. It comes installed by default. In any case, you probably should just use the automatic installation packages:

1. If you are on Suse or a distro that uses yast, try using yast to locate the scim application and install it.

2. If you are on Debian or another distro that uses apt-get, try doing

apt-get install scim

3. If you've already installed scim and just want the new package, try using apt-get instal scim-tomoe.

I'm sorry I'm not on Linux now to try, but good luck!

Russ Meier

Milwaukee, WI

[ipsi()]

Are there any solutions for NetBSD that can be done by a non-privileged user? Ideally from a flash drive or something, but anything would be nice. It's not really urgent anymore as my Uni account has been disabled (I've finished for the year), but it would be nice to know.