I'm a end-user of Gnome and Fcitx, and co-developer of this extension ( https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/261/kimpanel/)
One year ago i was still using iBus as my first-choice input method, but it has bugs and runs slowly, so i turned to fcitx. Fcitx is now growing up smoothly and has a lot of new features, for example i'm now using fcitx-keyboard for English inputing which has spell-checker and word prediction for i'm not a native english speaker. In technical way, as far as i know iBus now also has a gnome-shell extension to integrate with gnome-shell via DBus, with no special code. Fcitx did the same way but just some difference in implementation. the kimpanel-gnome-shell extension is a gjs implementation of Kimpanel which provides a general communication interface with IMs via DBus, it now works well with gnome-shell. there is a screenshot i took while writing this mail (http://static.bigeagle.me/kimpanel-gnome-shell.png). *And it can also work with ibus.* My point is neither ibus nor fcitx should be the default IM or even the ONLY IM for gnome, that would be a tragedy for users, and making me think of m$ and IE. What if ibus cannot satisfy me? Should i give up Gnome for a better IM? In technical way, it's NOT difficult to make a general abstraction for IM, which can be middleware for most IMs to work well with gnome. Kimpanel for KDE is a good example. and as far as i know, Weng Xuetian is now planning for Kimpanel2, which fixes some historical protocol bugs of kimpanel. He would be glad to help u to do this work. I love gnome and fcitx , and ibus , too. So just let theme to live together. On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Allan Day <allanp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Frederic Peters <fpet...@gnome.org> wrote: > > Jasper St. Pierre wrote: > > > >> We only have the development resources to ship one input method. It's > >> going to need special code to integrate with Clutter and the St > >> toolkit. If IBus is bad right now, we need to fix it. > > > > Or use fcitx instead of IBus? I honestly do not know the topic, but I > > read the emails from Marguerite Su and believe she brought important > > points. I'd like to understand what are the plus points of IBus today. > > I can't provide a technical comparison. What I can say is that I have > established a productive relationship with the iBus team as I've > worked on this feature, and I've had some productive (and quite > detailed) design conversations with them. They seem committed to > making iBus work with GNOME, and are are working towards that end. > > Allan > -- > IRC: aday on irc.gnome.org > Blog: http://afaikblog.wordpress.com/ > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Open Source,Open Mind Blog: http://bigeagle.me/ E-mail: bigea...@xdlinux.info
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