Kubuntu Indian & East Asian language display and input not as good as Ubuntu
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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kubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
scim (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
scim-chinese (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
scim-pinyin (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
skim (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
unidistro-kde-desktop (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: skim
Kubuntu's support for Indian & East Asian language display and input is not as easy-to-use as Ubuntu's.
For Indian & East Asian language input, Kubuntu uses SKIM but it is not easy to set up and configure. On Ubuntu GNOME SCIM works out of the box. SKIM should also work out of the box and allow typing in all the languages for which input methods were installed at install time. The ideal user experience is that the system automatically sets up commonly used input methods and make them available in a SKIM tray icon after the user indicates his working language during Kubuntu installation. We need such a zero configuration treatment!
Also, Kubuntu's default Chinese font is informal (rather than the formal font commonly used in Chinese publications and software) and does not display all characters correctly. I suggest that Kubuntu uses the open source Chinese font "wenquanyi" whose homepage is http://
Changed in kubuntu-meta: | |
status: | New → Invalid |
Scim-chinese is the old source package name of scim-pinyin. It's irrelevant here.