Improve default selection of IBus related packages
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ubuntu Kylin |
Fix Released
|
Medium
|
Unassigned | ||
ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
|
Low
|
Gunnar Hjalmarsson |
Bug Description
Currently we have:
"""
Input methods:
* (im-config)
* (ibus)
* (ibus-gtk3)
* (ibus-table)
* (ibus-pinyin)
* (ibus-pinyin-
"""
This is suboptimal in many ways.
1. ibus-gtk should be included, since we have notable GTK2 applications like Firefox and LibreOffice.
2. ibus-table doesn't provide a working input method by itself, it needs at least one of ibus-table-* package to work.
3. ibus-pinyin is useful for only limited set of people; even Simplified Chinese language support defaults to ibus-sunpinyin while UbuntuKylin and LinuxDeepin (a noteable Ubuntu-based distro in China) switch to Fcitx altogether.
The conclusion is that the real workhorse IBus related packages would be pulled by language support.
For meta package like ubuntu-desktop, we either leave a barebone IBus (ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-gtk3) or remove IBus altogether.
Related branches
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added: trusty removed: raring |
Thanks for your bug report!
Even if your reasoning makes sense to me, I can't help thinking that it would be late in the cycle to change this in 13.04. There will probably be quite a few IM related changes going forward.
Is any of the currently seeded packages causing problems, e.g. for UbuntuKylin?
Subscribing Sebastien.