Comment #5 on issue 1472 by [email protected]: Making IBus usable
in Hong Kong
http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=1472
But the candidate list in IBus are very different to that in Windows
which means every users needs to learn again. SCIM did a much better job
in positioning the characters in the candidate list.
That doesn't seem to be a problem in itself. I mean, lots of things are
different when going from Windows to Linux already.
Unless the ordering of suggestions is actually better in Windows of course,
but otherwise, it seems to me that IBus should try to do **better** than
others, not **identical** for the sake of being identical.
In any case, couldn't that be simply improved by making the suggestion
list "adapt" its ordering to the words most commonly used by the user?
(IIRC some input methods in IBus can do that already)
That seems like a separate improvement though, doesn't it?
The problem of the filter (which was the purpose of this bug report) still
remains.
If possible, can you take a closer look at ibus-table and give more
specific proposal of improvements?
I realize there is one thing I omitted in the bug report: the default
setting for the filter (the language it lets pass) depends on the locale of
the user session.
For example, if the session is "zh_HK", then the filter will by default
only show Traditional Chinese. But for an English locale, like en_HK which
is commonly used here, the filter will default to letting only Simplified
Chinese characters pass.
This happens in /usr/share/ibus-table/engine/table.py, in the
get_chinese_mode function.
And finally, this is a real problem because there isn't any easily
accessible UI to change the filter setting, or at least there won't be in
GNOME >= 3.6:
https://live.gnome.org/GnomeShell/Design/Guidelines/SystemStatus/InputLanguage
Again, given that the Candgie and Quick input methods were designed to
limit conflicts between different languages (i.e not provide candidates in
more than one language for every given key combination), the filter does
more harm than good.
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