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

[Ma Xiaojun]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Aron Xu <happyaron.xu at gmail.com> wrote:
> I see your point, and I agree it's not intuitive. But unfortunately we
> can't add ibus to Recommends for all desktop tasks, and even if any
> GNOME package do that then it is a bug.
> It's a long story to tell the whole thing, but in short it is not an
> ideal solution because some (significant amount of) users have other
> preference on input method framework other than ibus. It could be
> added to ibus package so that users of ibus get this feature by
> default.
It's up to you.
Why we integrate Vi when user base of Emacs, Nano is also huge?
Provide a default and let the tweakers do whatever they want.

> There were some discussions about how the input method integration
> should be implemented in GNOME, but the outcome was that GNOME
> designers and developers disagreed to accept the advices from input
> method developers and took an approach that has led us to an
> embarrassing situation.
Better to summarize as the developer and fans of one IMF try to
prevent GNOME from integrating another IMF.

> If you'd like to choose which input method framework to use, try
> im-config. After you have installed the package, run the command
> "im-config" from a terminal and then follow the guide.
> Ubuntu has language-selector, a tool said to be deprecated by GNOME's
> new control center component, but the replace won't happen in the
> upcoming 12.10 at least. The input method framework selection part of
> language-selector is a frontend of im-switch, which has been
> deprecated by im-config in Debian. If the tool won't get out of 13.04,
> I'll try to push patch to migrate it from im-switch to im-config. We
> won't have that tool because it manages language packs and fonts as
> well, which are pointless for Debian.
That's the solution favored by some people.
They know im-config on Debian, im-switch on Ubuntu, im-chooser on
Fedora, System/Environment/Language/INPUT_METHOD on openSUSE...
They also know input method related environmental variables (apply to
all distribution).
Happy tweaking!