GSoC proposal

[Henri Verbeet]

On 25 March 2012 16:49, Qian Hong <fracting at gmail.com> wrote:
> IMO using win32 IME on Linux is necessary for some people. In fact even
> most Chinese users don't know how many Chinese IMEs there exist, some
> of them have no alternative at all. Also, some handwriting input method
> editors and some speech-to-text input method editors have no
> alternative on Linux. Another reason to implement win32 IME bridge is,
> some win32 IME, such as sogou pinyin, google pinyin, are much better than
> there alternative on Linux ( ibus-pinyin, sunpinyin), maybe it is hard to
> understanded by non Chinese users...
>
I'm sure that's all true, but why would making Win32 input methods run
through Wine be a better (or even easier) solution than improving the
Linux/X11 input methods?