Comment 59 for bug 1045914

On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Karen Zagorski
<email address hidden> wrote:
> i guess canonical doesn't care... I really think about going back to
> windows after so many years on linux, coz all distributions have the
> same issue, the idea of ubuntu was fixing THAT, not making amazon lenses

I won't go back to proprietary OS but I feel that Karen Zagorski made
a good point.

We used to have unattractive, but almost working environment like
GNOME 2. We believed that some remaining glitches would be resolved in
a few releases.

It turns out that we get ground breaking stuff like GNOME 3 and Unity
in 2011. We are now struggling about things that probably been done
right since Windows 95. I haven't seen any improvements that could
potentially increase productivity / usability for quite a long time.

Talking about Canonical management or Mark Shuttleworth, I guess they
don't realize how buggy current Ubuntu is. So they continue to seek
new targets. I actually interested in whether I can evaluate
healthiness of current Ubuntu by doing some statistics. Many packages
are indeed unhealthy because there are many unanswered bug reports
piled up.

After a long spam, I'd give some advice on IBus users, if any.
I encourage you to use Fcitx in GNOME Shell environment.
I still encourage you to use IBus in KDE, LXDE, MATE, Xfce, Unity plus WMs.
Because GNOME input integration is a mess. The upstream integration is
problematic, as included in Fedora 18 (not released yet). There are
distributions disabled IBus integration like Arch and openSUSE 12.3
(not released yet). There is a distribution called Ubuntu 12.10 that
mix GNOME 3.4/3.6 stuff.
Fcitx ported most, if not all, third-party IBus engines. It has a well
maintained Shell extension:
https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/261/kimpanel/
( All input method frameworks have working tray icon, but GNOME
developers don't like tray icons, so tray icons disappear in GNOME
Shell. Besides, IBus in Ubuntu has indicator patch, which may added an
additional layer of complexity.)
Switching to Fcitx and getting timely support from its mailing list is
the only working solution for inputting stuff under GNOME Shell.