Comment #6 on issue 1472 by [email protected]: Making IBus usable in Hong Kong
http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=1472
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.
The ordering of suggestions is not good since even some commonly used characters are placed in the third or even fourth page, but people are learned to type using that order either themselves or in school. People select a character from the candidate list without even looking at it. Introducing some smart ordering that based on how frequently the user type a character will slow down the user and increase the rate of error for the general public.
In fact, the ordering of the Quick Classic table is identical to that of Windows when only considering Traditional Chinese. Changing the line 833 in /usr/share/ibus-table/engine/table.py (the Ubuntu version, I'm not sure how much it will differ) from "_page_size = 6" to "_page_size = 9" will make it apparently identical to that of Windows. But I think that the behavior of the space key will need to be changed as it is currently used to commit a character directly but not to flip page.
Quick was not designed to limit conflicts in the same language, only Cangjie was. There are thousands of commonly used Chinese characters, but after two key presses in Quick, the candidate selection list popup immediately.
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