by Michael S. Kaplan, published on 2007/01/26 11:51 -08:00, original URI: http://blogs.msdn.com/michkap/pages/1537879.aspx
Yes, here is where you can suggest a topic for future coverage by Sorting it all Out. I will allow any item that even remotely makes sense for me to cover, and will probably remove items after they are covered. We'll see how it goes, I am new at this....
(Due to the way the blog server is set up, comments close in 90 days. At this point, a new suggestion page gets set up every 90 days, if I don't forget to create a new one. I'll try to not forget. :-)
# IMEless in Tōkyō on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 6:10 AM:
The IME bar occasionally disappears. By disappears, I do not mean becomes transparent or hidden; it is really gone. When I click on another application, the IME is available; click back and it is gone. Thus, it must be on a per-application basis. I have no idea how to reproduce it consistently, but I have experienced it on Windows 2000 (JP) and Windows XP (ENG and JP) on multiple machines. I typically hit it once or twice a week. Completely restarting that application fixes it. As well as in XP (not 2000 so far) pressing the IME language change key sequence (such as Alt + Shift) will "often" restore it.
Any ideas what is going on? Is this a known issue? Restarting the application is easy enough, but often not very desirable.