[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#691396: Bug#691396: ibus-anthy: Engine fails to start

[Ma Xiaojun]

On 10/25/12 1:18 AM, Marcus Lundblad wrote:
> Trying to use ibus-anthy with gnome-shell 3.6.1 in experimental.
> I add a Japanese keyboard layout using anthy. Things don't work.
> After some digging around, I found that the file
> /usr/share/ibus-anthy/engine/_config.py contains invalid paths.
> These paths (PKGDATADIR, LIBEXECDIR, and LOCALEDIR) starts with /usr/share
> Thus, python won't find the modules defined by the engine.
> Manually changing these paths to have a prefix of "/usr/" actually makes it
> work.
> I can now type in text with the Japanese input method (and also the input
> method options appears in gnome-shell's keyboard menu in the top bar).
Did you notice similar issue in the upstream tracker?
http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=1513

I guess the upstream developer assume that you are using /usr
I think non /usr prefix should be supported so I kept the upstream issue 
open.
However, this issue is not a high priority issue at least for me personally.