I have not actually looked at the /usr/bin/scratch script, but I do know
that the use of /usr/bin/squeak (or /usr/local/bin/squeak) is already
overloaded depending on what flavor of VM was installed most recently. I
suspect that it would be better to have a /usr/bin/scratch script that
does exactly what you want it to do, possibly not relying at all on the
/usr/bin/squeak script.

Tim, when someone installs Scratch on their Pi, does that installation
include the VM? Or does it expect a VM to be installed separately? I am
assuming that the Scratch installation would include a VM and with the
Scratch plugins, and that you would not want other installations of VMs to
affect the Scratch application. Is that right?

Dave

> The relationship between /usr/bin/scratch and /usr/bin/squeak is
> somewhat confused.  /usr/bin/scratch has some code to handle VMOPTIONS
> but it is not actually passed to /usr/bin/squeak.  But then if
> /usr/bin/scratch was passing those to /usr/bin/squeak, that shell
> script does not handle them.  I'd think it might be good to copy the
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH part of /usr/bin/squeak to /usr/bin/scratch, and the
> latter does not deal with the former.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima
> <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:06 AM, Yoshiki Ohshima
>> <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
>>> On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 10:04 AM, tim Rowledge <tim at rowledge.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> Forgive me if I’m being hopelessly naive here, but does this text
>>>> input mechanism work for other languages too? Would it, for example,
>>>> be usable as an on-screen keyboard for theRaspberry Pi lcd
>>>> touchscreen?
>>>
>>> It should work for any other languages that ibus or scim can handle.
>>> Yes, it will be usable with the on-screen keyboard.
>>
>> So I wrote about two possible options on changes to /usr/bin/scratch;
>> I think that the option that uses the XMODIFIERS environment variable,
>> or some other ways to tell that there is an input method running, is
>> more suitable for this purpose.
>>
>>
>> --
>> -- Yoshiki
>
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>
> --
> -- Yoshiki
>