I did some testing with the latest packages in the PPA. On Ubuntu GNOME it worked as expected. Whether the display language is English or Japanese, im-config starts IBus and sets ibus in the variables, and I can type Japanese. gnome-language-selector behaves in consistency with im-config.
On GNOME Flashback im-config seems to work as expected. When the display language is English, im-config does not start IBus or change any variables. When I start gnome-language-selector from the terminal, it behaves in consistency with im-config. However... When I start gnome-language-selector from System Settings in GNOME Flashback, gnome-language-selector thinks that the applicable system default is "auto". Hence it shows that IBus is the selected IM framework, and creates a ~/.xinputrc file stating ibus. The reason proved to be that while XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP has the value "GNOME- Flashback:Unity" in the terminal, XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP has the value "Unity" when gnome-language-selector is started from the graphical environment. This undesired behavior is not due to the proposed changes in language-selector, but it's apparently there also with the current version. My view right now is that at least these two issues should be further dealt with in separate bug reports: * The incorrect XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP value in the graphical environment of GNOME Flashback. (Dmitry?) * The failure (first time) to change the display language from Region & Language in Ubuntu GNOME. (Tim, if you can reproduce that problem, please feel free to subscribe me to a bug report. Considering that it worked after the language had been changed once using gnome-language- selector, the required change should reasonably not be very extensive.) Since those pending issues won't likely result in any further changes to im-config or language-selector, personally I think the proposed packages in the PPA should go to the xenial archive now. Let me know. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-session in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1551283 Title: ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME Status in Ubuntu GNOME: New Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu: Invalid Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu: New Status in im-config package in Ubuntu: In Progress Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu: In Progress Bug description: In the gnome-language-selector one is able to set the "Keyboard input method system". For instance on my system I can either set it to "none", "IBus", or "fcitx". However there is no such option in the gnome-control-center's Region & Language section, though I think that there should be. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-gnome/+bug/1551283/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
