Comment 8 for bug 1184077

I wonder if it is an easy change to make kde-l10n-zhcn not depending on ibus as preset.

The problem might be if somebody installs a system based on kde-l10n-zhcn and there is no preset IME then there is no input possible in Chinese but only in English. Many Chinese people don't speak English, at least for them it would be difficult to use the fresh installed system, before add an IME.

I am not aware of a method to make kde-l10n-zhcn dependend on a chooseable IME, where one method is obligatory and at least all IME with a bigger userbase would be available. So the discussion at the moment could only be if that should be changed to another IME, because more people are using it or because one is better than another.

However this could be integrated in system installers of course, like choosing the language or keyboard layout and should be if the userbase of Chinese speaking Linux users is big enough to find developers who would do this quite big task, as this would have to be added to quite a lot of distributions than.

I think this is the reason this "bug" isn't changed. In my Manjaro installation kde-l10n-zhcn installs only libibus as dependency, I can't uninstall it. I use fcitx, so I have an unused software of ~48 MiB - not such a big problem today. Even if I would prefer an integration in system installers.