Bug#838318: ibus: Characters swapped under certain circumstances

[Michaël Meyer]

Thank you for your answer.


> I am not having such problem here with japanese conversion engin.  So it
> is likely to be the problem by the package offering "sanskrit - IAST
> (m17n)"


I tried with the Japanese input method, and still find the same glitch
(typing ";!" results in "!;", etc.).

Is this particulat to some application or always true for all program?


This applies to all programs I use (web browser, terminal, text editor) .

What to do from now? Should I report this to the developers, too?

Regards,

MM

2016-09-20 14:40 GMT+02:00 Osamu Aoki :

> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:45:47PM +0200, Michaël Meyer wrote:
> > Package: ibus
> > Version: 1.5.11-1
> > Severity: important
>
> I think it is normal bug with high level of annoyance to the user.
>
> > Dear Maintainer,
>
> I maintain ibus but not entire ibus tool platform.
>
> > I'm experiencing an annoying glitch with the "sanskrit - IAST (m17n)"
> input
> > method: when I press a key that can be part of an input sequence and then
> > another key that cannot, the corresponding letters are swapped.
>
> I am not having such problem here with japanese conversion engin.  So it
> is likely to be the problem by the package offering "sanskrit - IAST
> (m17n)"
>
> > For instance: typing "ape" results in "pae", although typing "aei" or
> "zrt"
> > produces the corresponding letter sequences.
>
> Is this particulat to some application or always true for all program?
>
> Say: Chromium, gnome-terminal, ...
>
> There are some race condition problem I heard for some input method ...
> I do not know much ...
>
> > I've used ibus for a few years on a variety of systems, but never had
> this
> > issue.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847495
>
> ibus is not so easy...
>
> Osamu
>

Bug#838318: ibus: Characters swapped under certain circumstances

[Osamu Aoki]

Hi,

On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 09:45:47PM +0200, Michaël Meyer wrote:
> Package: ibus
> Version: 1.5.11-1
> Severity: important

I think it is normal bug with high level of annoyance to the user.
 
> Dear Maintainer,

I maintain ibus but not entire ibus tool platform.
 
> I'm experiencing an annoying glitch with the "sanskrit - IAST (m17n)" input
> method: when I press a key that can be part of an input sequence and then
> another key that cannot, the corresponding letters are swapped.

I am not having such problem here with japanese conversion engin.  So it
is likely to be the problem by the package offering "sanskrit - IAST
(m17n)"

> For instance: typing "ape" results in "pae", although typing "aei" or "zrt"
> produces the corresponding letter sequences.

Is this particulat to some application or always true for all program?

Say: Chromium, gnome-terminal, ...

There are some race condition problem I heard for some input method ...
I do not know much ...

> I've used ibus for a few years on a variety of systems, but never had this
> issue.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=847495

ibus is not so easy...

Osamu

Bug#838318: ibus: Characters swapped under certain circumstances

[Michaël Meyer]

Package: ibus
Version: 1.5.11-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

I'm experiencing an annoying glitch with the "sanskrit - IAST (m17n)" input
method: when I press a key that can be part of an input sequence and then
another key that cannot, the corresponding letters are swapped.

For instance: typing "ape" results in "pae", although typing "aei" or "zrt"
produces the corresponding letter sequences.

I've used ibus for a few years on a variety of systems, but never had this
issue.

Regards,

MM

-- Package-specific info:
default-display-manager: /usr/sbin/lightdm
ibus is /usr/bin/ibus
ibus-setup is /usr/bin/ibus-setup
im-config -l =>  ibus xim
im-config -m => default missing ibus ibus
XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus
GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus
QT4_IM_MODULE=xim
QT_IM_MODULE=ibus
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/xfce4:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games

ls -l /usr/lib/ibus/
total 392
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  19144 Nov 20  2015 ibus-dconf
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  35904 Oct 26  2014 ibus-engine-m17n
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  10696 Nov 20  2015 ibus-engine-simple
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  27568 Oct 26  2014 ibus-setup-m17n
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 206568 Nov 20  2015 ibus-ui-gtk3
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  92824 Nov 20  2015 ibus-x11

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.utf8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages ibus depends on:
ii  adwaita-icon-theme   3.21.91-1
ii  dconf-cli0.26.0-1
ii  dconf-gsettings-backend [gsettings-backend]  0.26.0-1
ii  gir1.2-gtk-3.0   3.21.5-3
ii  gir1.2-ibus-1.0  1.5.11-1
ii  libatk1.0-0  2.21.90-2
ii  libc62.23-5
ii  libcairo21.14.6-1+b1
ii  libdconf10.26.0-1
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0 2.49.6-1
ii  libgtk-3-0   3.21.5-3
ii  libibus-1.0-51.5.11-1
ii  libnotify4   0.7.6-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0   1.40.2-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.40.2-1
ii  librsvg2-common  2.40.16-1
ii  libx11-6 2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxi6   2:1.7.6-1
ii  python3-gi   3.21.92-1
pn  python3:any  

Versions of packages ibus recommends:
ii  im-config   0.29-1.4
ii  libqt5gui5  5.6.1+dfsg-3+b1

Versions of packages ibus suggests:
pn  ibus-clutter  
pn  ibus-doc  
pn  ibus-qt4  
ii  libqt5gui55.6.1+dfsg-3+b1

-- no debconf information