[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#690605: ibus-xkbc: not installed on with desktop metapackage

[westlake]

Package: ibus-xkbc
Version: 1.3.3.20100922-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,
dunno, but finding out about this package if one needs to configure
his keyboard to additional input control for other languages is very remote..
I'm sort of raising the suggestion this should be part of a desktop
metapackage.. as there's already two Keyboard sections in a gnome
environment to change keyboard settings (keyboard and RegionalNLanguage), and
sometimes a there needs to be a tweak with the input method system that
would benefit many.. yet this is very non-intuitive

I shouldnt compare distros, but in ubuntu there are 3 modes selectable from
a pulldown itemlist concerning which input method system to use. This is arranged
as part it's desktop install..('Keyboard layout' icon in its systemsettings)

The similar settings(on debian) can be found in the Ibus app, on the 2nd tab 'Input Method'
but this isnt installed by default and largely complements anything 'Keyboard' and RegionalNLanguage
in systemsettings.. 

(I didnt raise this until a few people were asking me on irc related questions
about input method systems for typing in other languages)



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages ibus-xkbc depends on:
ii  ibus            1.4.1-7
ii  python          2.7.3~rc2-1
ii  python-support  1.0.15

ibus-xkbc recommends no packages.

ibus-xkbc suggests no packages.

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