gnome-language-selector no longer installs a readily usable IME when adding Japanese

[w3wsrmn]

Binary package hint: language-selector

As of Karmic, gnome-language-selector no longer installs an IME when adding Japanese language support.

When I installed Japanese support, despite having "Input methods" ticked, an IME was not installed. I had to manually install scim and scim-anthy. In previous versions of Ubuntu, this step is handled automatically.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 8 12:20:26 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-language-selector
InterpreterPath: /usr/bin/python2.6
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: language-selector 0.4.11
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.38-generic
SourcePackage: language-selector
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
XsessionErrors:
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1716): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (gnome-settings-daemon:1716): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_propagate_error: assertion `src != NULL' failed
 (polkit-gnome-authentication-agent-1:1778): GLib-CRITICAL **: g_once_init_leave: assertion `initialization_value != 0' failed
 (nautilus:1747): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()' failed

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

According to the dependency list of language-support-input-ja, the ibus-anthy package should be installed. Can you please verify if that is the case?

[w3wsrmn (w3wsrmn)]

Sorry for the mistake. ibus-anthy is indeed installed. However, a Japanese input method is not immediately available.
Launchpad is throwing an error when I attempt to edit the bug description, so I'll provide an updated description here:

As of Karmic, gnome-language-selector no longer installs a readily usable IME when adding Japanese language support.

When I installed Japanese support, ibus was not configured with a Japanese input method. Post-install, I had to manually add one.

In previous versions of Ubuntu when language-selector installs scim-anthy, a Japanese input method is automatically configured. The switch to ibus-anthy has introduced an extra step in configuration of a Japanese input method.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

OK, so the request is for a better ibus configuration handling. Marking this to be done in Lucid+1.

[Arne Goetje (arnegoetje)]

ibus-anthy should register itself in ibus automatically.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

natty has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the natty task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".