On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 6:45 AM Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > currently we have 4 bugreports open regarding input methods: > > #983704 Switch to fcitx5 for Simplified and Traditional Chinese desktop > #941624 Recommending ibus breaks fcitx > #983653 task-japanese-gnome-desktop: no Japanese input method available out > of the box > #982175 task-japanese-desktop: should explicitly prefer mozc over anthy > > This correlates with Gnome's changing to Recommends: ibus. > > So, what's the way to solve these issues for Bullseye? > What are the options? > > 1. Since Gnome only supports ibus, all relevant languages would need to get > an ibus-* package installed, to run Gnome. > Would that work? Is ibus working fine for all relevant languages? > > 2. There are of course people, who don't want to use ibus, but fcitx or uim. > In that case, would it be ok, to install both (ibus + fctix|uim) ? > It has been stated, that it's no problem, when more than one input method > is installed, im-config is there to take care of that. > > 3. Getting Gnome reverting the Recommends:ibus dependency is probably no > longer possible in this development status of Bullseye ... (?) > > 4. What about other desktop environments? > Apart from the fcitx -> fcitx5 switch, are there any other changings > needed? > > 5. <maybe more?>
Just FTR, as there's another thread in #983695. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=983695#85 It may be better to recommend gnome-initial-setup for gnome tasks like task-korean-gnome-desktop, to workaround that ibus doesn't have a default config for all languages.
