Unity's fcitx integration has become obsolete
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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unity-control-center (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Unity integrates both ibus and fcitx. At least it used to. What I mean by that is that if you use e.g. fcitx, you can manage also fcitx input sources from Text Entry, and no Fcitx icon is shown in the top bar.
But time goes by, and the version of fcitx supported by Unity (fcitx 4) is deprecated and replaced by fcitx 5. As from Ubuntu 21.10 language-
So something should be done about this. I can think of two options:
1. Adapt the fcitx integration to work with fcitx 5.
2. Drop the fcitx integration, and let fcitx 5 do its thing alongside Text Entry etc.
I chose to submit this bug against unity-control-
@Aron: If I recall correctly, you were heavily involved in implementing the fcitx integration. Do you have any thoughts on the best way to handle it now?