On Tue, 1 May 2018 12:17:37 +0200 wofgdkncxojef@... wrote: > no, i meant ibus/scim/uim/fcitx and other programs of the like > you could type in chinese in kde3 with all of those > > it would be far simpler to bundle with trinity an older version of ibus that > works. In one of the links, i saw some one saying that ibus worked in > trinity. It was in 14.04? I think there was some big changes in ibus a few > years back. Maybe it broke at that point? maybe you can test this with a > 14.04 live cd, still supported until 2019 > > then the devs could bundle it as ibus-trinity > i think not having an input method is a big flaw..... uim might be a better choice, since it seems to still carry a series of old flags intended for building against KDE3/QT3 (--enable-kde-applet --with-qt --with-qt-immodule (the related QT4 flags all have a "4" in them)). Whether the code they control is still there, still functional, and will work with Trinity is another question, of course, but it's a starting point. E. Liddell