Accepted scim 1.4.4-1ubuntu2 (source)

[Ming Hua]

On Mon, Mar 13, 2006 at 01:00:07PM -0000, Michael Vogt wrote:
>  scim (1.4.4-1ubuntu2) dapper; urgency=low
>  .
>    * debian/patches/20_start_in_session.dpatch:
>      - add it to /etc/xdg/autostart

I don't quite understand how these autostart things work, so I read the
source, which only made me more confused:

1. There is indeed a patch 20_start_in_session.dpatch which add an
debian/scim.desktop file, but nothing else to make sure it's installed
in any binary package.  And I checked my installation of scim,
libscim8c2a and scim-gtk2-immodule packages, all of them at
1.4.4-1ubuntu2, none of them has anything in /etc/xdg/autostart/.

2. The scim.desktop file has the following line:
    Exec=scim
and I wonder if it really works.  As for scim to work properly, some
environment variables need to be set (if not for scim, at least for X
and GTK+/Qt), and usually scim is started as "scim -d".

Would someone please clarify how this autostart thing is supposed to
work?

At last I want to warn that having scim running in the backgroud for all
desktop installs has a big risk of making bug #2246 (crasher for many
third-party GTK+ applications) much more widespread then it should be,
from my understanding (that is, scim-gtk2-immodule will be installed by
ubuntu-desktop, and .desktop files installed in /etc/xdg/autostart/ will
make the program to automatically start when the user log in).

Thanks,
Ming
2006.03.14