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regarding fcitx: latin input cannot be activated
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Package: fcitx
Version: 1:4.2.7-2
Severity: normal
There seem to be some usability problems with fcitx [1]. After
installing, for instance, fcitx-googlepinyin, the Chinese input works
fine but plain latin (English) input is no longer accessible.
The documentation seems to refer to a need to have some "Keyboard"
entry in the input method list, but no much entry can be found in the
Configuration Tool. Shouldn't it (the normal X/Gnome keyboard) be
included automatically anyway? This is on Gnome 3 (gnome-shell
3.4.2-7)
The workaround is to shutdown fcitx, which is not so useful.
Thanks,
Drew
[1] If a "default" installation is done, just installing fcitx alone,
then no input method is installed at all. So it appears to a dumb
casual user as though fcitx is just broken. It would be better if some
input methods were installed, perhaps as a Recommends. Of course fcitx
does not know if you want Korean, Japanese or Chinese input (and which
version of them). Would a better default be to install the most
common input method of each language?
I think the comparison could be made with xserver-xorg, which installs
all video drivers via xserver-xorg-video-all, unless a user specifies a
specific one (which provides xserver-xorg-video). By analogy, fcitx
could Depends: fcitx-input-method-common | fcitx-input-method.
fcitx-input-method-common would be a dummy package that depends on
selected common methods, while each separate method would
Provides: fcitx-input-method.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages fcitx depends on:
ii fcitx-bin 1:4.2.7-2
ii fcitx-data 1:4.2.7-2
ii fcitx-modules 1:4.2.7-2
Versions of packages fcitx recommends:
ii fcitx-config-gtk 0.4.6-3
ii fcitx-frontend-all 1:4.2.7-2
ii fcitx-ui-classic 1:4.2.7-2
ii im-config [im-switch] 0.21
Versions of packages fcitx suggests:
pn fcitx-m17n <none>
pn fcitx-tools <none>
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Version: 1:4.2.9.9-2.1+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package fcitx has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1147324
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