Hi, Le lundi 23 avril 2012, à 23:23 +0200, Rui Tiago Cação Matos a écrit : > Hi, > > The GNOME desktop has, up until now, supported different keyboard > layouts configuration and switching through the use of XKB and its > database of keyboard descriptions. What we have never explicitly > supported in the core desktop is input methods such as Pinyin for > Chinese or the various methods to input Japanese. > > IBus[1] is a project that provides a framework to develop input > methods with several readily available on at least Fedora and Ubuntu. > This proposal aims at including explicit support for IBus in GNOME in > such a way that, from the user experience point of view, choosing to > use a German keyboard layout won't be that different from choosing a > Korean input method. > > IBus is composed of several tools. Of those we are mainly interested > in using the core ibus-daemon and the various engines. In particular, > the goal is to not rely on its GUI tools to configure and interact > with it. Instead, gnome-control-center will be the GUI to add "input > sources" which are, for now, a simple tuple of XKB layout and IBus > engine that are known to work together and which will have a UI name > that is meaningful to users. gnome-shell presents the currently in use > input source and the other configured ones in a status indicator and > menu (what now is the keyboard status indicator). It will also present > the candidates window for the input method in use, if any, based on > Takao Fujiwara's work[3]. > > The feature wiki page[2] has some more details and links to initial > code to achieve this.
There's been some recent discussion wrt input methods in openSUSE: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2012-05/msg00169.html Apparently, people seem to think that ibus is not the right long term solution. And fcitx has been mentioned several times, then the upstream author wrote this: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2012-05/msg00205.html When reading this thread, it sounds to me that there are quite some users who are unhappy with ibus. So I'm wondering: have other approaches been considered? Thanks, Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
