Comment 5 for bug 1363150

On 2014-08-29 18:53, William Hua wrote:
> im-config was patched so that under Ubuntu, Fcitx would be prioritized
> over IBus.

Actually that code in debian/rules is included upstream. It's there for a reason - Ubuntu Kylin - and if it's going to be dropped, some other solution for Ubuntu Kylin must be in place first.

> This was fine before because Fcitx wasn't a seeded package
> and installing Fcitx explicitly meant that you pretty much wanted it.
> But if Fcitx is seeded, this means that patch effectively makes Fcitx
> default, so we need to revert that behaviour.

What would the point be with seeding Fcitx in distros where it's not supposed to be the default?