Cannot type Chinese character using ibus in search bar of unity dashboard

Bug #924961 reported by Hsin-Yi, Chen (hychen)
This bug report is a duplicate of:  Bug #915828: ibus not getting focus. Edit Remove
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
OEM Priority Project
New
Critical
James M. Leddy
Precise
New
Critical
Unassigned
unity (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
High
Canonical Desktop Experience Team

Bug Description

Step To Reproduce

1. user press Window key to launch search bar of unity dashboard
2. user press Ctrl+Space to active ibus
3. user types Chinese characters...

Except Result:

1. user should be able to input Chinese chracters with ibus

Actault Result:

iBus can not be active when user press Ctrl+Space in search bar o unity dashboard

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: unity 5.0.0-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-11.19-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
CompizPlugins: [core,bailer,detection,composite,opengl,decor,imgpng,resize,regex,gnomecompat,mousepoll,animation,compiztoolbox,grid,snap,move,vpswitch,place,session,workarounds,wall,expo,fade,ezoom,scale,unityshell]
Date: Thu Feb 2 00:17:24 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120128)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=zh_TW:zh
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=zh_TW.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: unity
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

iBus Depedency:

ii ibus 1.4.0-3ubuntu3 Intelligent Input Bus - core
ii ibus-chewing 1.3.10+clean-1 Chewing engine for IBus
ii ibus-gtk 1.4.0-3ubuntu3 Intelligent Input Bus - GTK+2 support
ii ibus-gtk3 1.4.0-3ubuntu3 Intelligent Input Bus - GTK+3 support
ii ibus-pinyin 1.4.0-1 Pinyin engine for IBus
ii ibus-pinyin-db-android 1.4.0-1 Pinyin engine for IBus - Android database
ii ibus-table 1.3.9.20110827-1 table engine for IBus
ii libibus-1.0-0 1.4.0-3ubuntu3 Intelligent Input Bus - shared library
ii python-ibus 1.4.0-3ubuntu3

Revision history for this message
Hsin-Yi, Chen (hychen) (ossug-hychen) wrote :
description: updated
Pascal Morin (pcm689)
summary: - can not user iBus to type text in search bar of unity dashboard
+ Cannot type Chinese character using ibus in search bar of unity
+ dashboard
description: updated
Changed in oem-priority:
importance: Undecided → Critical
Pascal Morin (pcm689)
description: updated
Revision history for this message
Steve Magoun (smagoun) wrote :

Input method support, especially support for Chinese, is critical for commercial engagements in 12.04.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Critical
importance: Critical → High
Changed in oem-priority:
assignee: nobody → James M. Leddy (jm-leddy)
Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Canonical Desktop Experience Team (canonical-dx-team)
tags: added: regression-release
Revision history for this message
Brandon Schaefer (brandontschaefer) wrote :

This should be fixed with this bug fix.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/915828

Revision history for this message
Steve Magoun (smagoun) wrote :

Marking as duplicate based on comment #3

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in unity (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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