[MIR] plasma-widget-kimpanel

[Jonathan Riddell]

https://wiki.kubuntu.org/MainInclusionReportPlasmaWidgetKimpanel

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

> Needs scim set up prior to use

Arne switched Ubuntu from scim to ibus, and also planned to switch Kubuntu to ibus-qt. Is that actually tightly coupled to scim, or was it meant to be "needs input method set up"?

Subscribed Arne for input (no pun intended..).

Package is okay otherwise.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

plasma-widget-kimpanel can work with multiple input methods. Scim is one of them.
Ibus is supported by starting kimpanel with --ibus, AFAIK. There is a README somewhere in the source code IIRC.

To determine the input method to use, look into ~/.xinput.d/${LOCALE}. That is a symlink to IM specific files in /etc/X11/xinit/xinput.d/. What ever is linked there is the IM of choice.

For Karmic the default ought to be 'ibus'
The IM itself is started in Xsession.d/, so it should be available before kimpanel fires up.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

~/.xinput.d/${LOCALE} actually is the locale without .UTF-8 and @variants... e.g: en_US, zh_TW, ja_JP.

So, kimpanel would need a wrapper script that checks which input method is selected for the locale the user runs in and starts kimpanel with the appropriate flags.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

Fallback locale setting is 'all_ALL'. I.e. if the user is running in en_US, but there is no link in ~/.xinput.d/ for en_US, the link for all_ALL is used if present.

[Jonathan Riddell (jr)]

I've moved it to main for feature freeze but I'll try and work on such a wrapper script soon.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Thanks, Arne. So this is fine for main, approved.

[Martin Pitt (pitti)]

Please note that this will not be promoted unless something in main or the seeds require it.

[Michael Ummels (urmel291)]

I have noticed that the plasma-widget-kimpanel binary package does currently not ship with the ibus backend. I had to copy the backend (file backend/ibus/panel.py) from the source package and change the im-switch configuration to get the widget working with ibus (ibus-daemon needs to be started with --panel=<path-to-panel.py> to get it working). Should I open a bug for that?