Is there an IME pad at all?

[magomago]

Often times, when I'm practicing Chinese, there are several characters I can't understand...so I simply input it into the built in IME pad with windows and roll from there. This is when I'm watching movies (so I can't simply copy the character over like with a text document)

Is there a package that does something similar? I tried sifting through synaptic but I couldn't find anything (I had only a few minutes to look...I will check a second time). Is there something out there that will do that?
Even an online java/flash version would work fine.

I ended up finding an oolllld post I made back in the day on ubuntu forums when I used ubuntu much more heavily on this subject. No one had responded either, so hopefully I'll have more luck today hjere =)

 

[AnonymouseUser]

Give Cellwriter a try.

An online app to try is nciku. To the right of the Search button is a handwriting recognition dropdown box.

 

[magomago]

Just wanted to let people know that I started using tomoe. I figured it out last night, but didn't have the time to write instructions (for those who want to do it). I'll update tonight.

 

[magomago]

This is for Ubuntu:

Add the following repos

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/japaneseteam/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/japaneseteam/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Get the GPG key in terminal:
$ gpg --recv-keys 68B5F60DCDC1D865
$ gpg --export -armor 68B5F60DCDC1D865 | sudo apt-key add -

then update apt-get and

$ sudo apt-get install scim-tomoe

Finally,
cd /usr/share/tomoe/recognizer
sudo lsn -s handwriting-zh_CN.xml handwriting-en.xml


And now it should be a button on SCIM =)

I actually like the nciku...the detection rate on Tomoe seems a lower than that flash app. There is also this annoying 'hiccup' that happens after the first stroke.