Bug#1029821: change gnome-desktop's default choice of Japanese input methods for Debian

[James Addison]

Package: libgnome-desktop-4-2
Followup-For: Bug #1029821

On Thu, 2 Mar 2023 15:50:22 +0000, smcv wrote:
> When there are patches available for whatever we decide is the right
> behaviour, you shouldn't need to walk through the whole install process.

Thanks; yep, I think I took an unnecessarily long path through this.  I'd been
looking for a reason to try the latest Debian installer (and may have learned
one or two things about it along the way, but I'll save any of that for
separate threads).

On Wed, 01 Mar 2023 16:47:22 +0000 James Addison <jay at jp-hosting.net> wrote:
>   2. select 'anthy' in 'gnome-initial-setup'
>   3. attempt Japanese keyboard input

Result: ペンギン

>   5. select 'mozc-jp' in 'gnome-initial-setup'
>   6. attempt Japanese keyboard input

Result: ペンギン

(in truth: those are not from the d-i alpha 2 sessions I was running; after
reading Simon's advice, I used a local user account instead)

In both the anthy and mozc cases, the keypresses (chords?) required were fairly
similar: 'pe', 'ng', 'gi', 'ng' - with some delete-key and enter-key usage to
complete each glyph and/or input entry.