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

[Aron Xu]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 6:21 AM, Norbert Preining <preining at logic.at> wrote:
> Hi Aron,
>
> On Di, 12 Feb 2013, Aron Xu wrote:
>> 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
>
> What does upstream say to this problem?
> Do you have contact with upstream? Good one?
> They must be aware that there are problems with gnome3, aren't they?
>
>> 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
>
> Less advisable if possible in any way. But it depends on upstream
> and their willingness to work on the problems.
>

>From what I've read, it seems that upstream is working quite busy with
the need of every current development version of gnome-shell, and we
must wait for more time before it suits better into environments like
Debian. AFAIK opensuse will stay with ibus 1.4.2, and we've done that
too for Debian Sid and Ubuntu Raring. We can keep at least what we
already have in this way.


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Regards,
Aron Xu