Just wanted to let everyone know that QIM is having a promotion from Dec. 14 through Jan. 4.

This IME has been talked about a lot on CPod.  I think it's the best for Mac.  Even if you don't purchase the full version, the free trial version is great if you don't need traditional support (you lose some of the features, including trad. support, after 30 days or typing 10,000 characters).

Some features:

1) Display the candidates while typing.
2) Switch between Chinese and English with one key.
3) Switch between Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese with one key.
4) Supports both Mac OS and Windows input-method conventions.
5) Parses Pinyin input strings automatically.
6) Supports full-width punctuation and Roman text.
7) Users can change the appearance of the candidate palette's font, font size, opacity, colors, and more.
8) Saves user-defined word and phrases automatically.
9) Recognizes URLs automatically. Just use the return key to input the Roman input string directly.
10) Supports Fuzzy Pinyin.
11) Supports Tone Control.
12) Supports all Mac OS X international keyboard layouts (French, German, etc.).

Promotion Details:

3-weeks promotion from 12/14/2008 to 1/4/2009. 
  1.QIM only 11.99 USD
  2.ID3Mod2 only 6.99USD.
  3.QIM&ID3Mod2 bundle package, Only 16.99 USD.

Hi, Folks,

I'm just wondering if there are any Linux users out there who can advise me. I'm running Ubuntu 9.04 on my laptop, and have been using SCIM to input Chinese, but SCIM seems a bit creaky, and occasionally does odd things, eating up my system resources, and demanding a re-install. IBus (http://code.google.com/p/ibus/) looks promising as an alternative, and certainly seems prettier, but I can't seem to get it working. Anybody out there managed to get IBus installed on their machine? And if so, is it a worthy replacement for SCIM.

Thanks,

Will