The sort-of final word on Input Managers in Leopard

There's long been a controversy brewing about Input Managers in Leopard. At first it seemed that they were doomed. Now that Leopard is out, however, the news is not so dire. Input Managers are allowed in Leopard, but the restrictions on their use have increased. Apple has released a Document outlining these restrictions, and warns that Input Manager "functionality is likely to be disabled in a future release." As it stands, however, they can still work so long as the conditions are met, most importantly that they're located at /Library/Input Managers (instead of the corresponding folder in the user's home directory) and the permissions are set properly. This hint over at Mac OS X Hints sets out the procedure to make these changes with a couple of simple terminal commands. The hint itself focuses on the Safari search tool Inquisitor, but the same idea should work (in principle) for other Input Managers (though some will still be incompatible for other reasons). We also previously mentioned Plugsuit which accomplishes the same task, but apparently in a different way (see below).