Hello, you might be aware that we are pushing to have a better input story by default for Gnome 3.6 [1].
IBus has a very flexible architecture and there are dozens of engines available for it. There are several engines for the same language and even engines to help input latex among other things. I'm wary though, of just dumping every installed IBus engine into the control center's input sources chooser. You can read about that in [2]. Basically, here's my argument: " The way I see it, we are not doing an IBus UI, we are doing the Gnome input methods UI. The fact that there are engines for IBus like 'latex' and 'compose' doesn't mean that they make sense to expose from the Gnome point of view. They might make sense and be very useful but we really need a design on how to expose them. Just throwing everything into the "Region & Language" input sources chooser doesn't seem like the best decision IMHO. So, I think that, at least for 3.6, we should keep using the whitelist. We should add more engines to it of course, at least the ones Mathieu mentioned in bug 680840 [3] for traditional Chinese and make sure that the ones that we expose are actually usable and maybe even do specific tweaks to the way we present them on a case by case basis. " This is where I'd like your help, since you are obviously in a better position to tell us what works well for you language. If you could give us a good overview of input works in your language and how people usually do it even on other platforms that would be awesome. See [3] for inspiration on the kind of feedback I'd like to see. Of course other comments and (constructive) criticism is also very welcome. Thanks for your help! Rui [1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features/IBus [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682313 [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680840 _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
