[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#700076: ibus: non-functional, setup breaks

[Aron Xu]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 5:54 PM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> Hi Aron,
>
>> Frankly, I haven't tested it in very detail since Fedora 18 has been
>> released with this version.
>
> Oh, surprise. I guess we should look into the patches fedora applies, they wouldn't ship it as it, or?
>
> If I can do anything let me know
>
> Norbert

Yes, I'm surprised when it actually breaks like this... And after
asking some Chinese users of F18 they said it's very hard to get it
work, sadly.

It seems to be quite difficult to deal with current situation after my
checking into details of the whole stack because, ibus 1.5 series
depends extensively on gobject technology, but due to the nature of
input method - it need to work with all reasonable combination of the
libraries/applications, we may need to patch everything to make it
actually work for every certain situations (think about Sid,
experimental and Ubuntu). I have verified that current git master does
not work on Ubuntu Raring at all, it just throw out tons of errors and
eventually crashes. This is not something wanted, and I don't think
fixing it in this way is feasible.

A possible solution is to revert everything back to ibus 1.4.2 series
and keep supporting it, and it will be supported by mainstream
distribution maintainers until ibus upstream release a reasonable
version. If you agree then I can start doing it. An alternative
solution is to try to fix as much as possible, but I bet users will
suffer.

What do you think?


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Regards,
Aron Xu