Public bug reported:

Fcitx is being included in main, but Unity lacks support for it in
various ways:

- The Text Entry panel in unity-control-center has no effect on Fcitx' engine 
list
- Per-window source options in Text Entry panel don't affect Fcitx
- Fcitx engines (specifically for keyboard layout) are not available under 
unity-greeter
- Fcitx indicator isn't available under the lock screen, only indicator-keyboard
- Keyboard layout switching shortcut behaviour provided by Unity and 
unity-settings-daemon doesn't change Fcitx' current IM
- Fcitx indicator is missing some options that are normally provided by 
indicator-keyboard
- Running indicator-keyboard and Fcitx concurrently is redundant as 
indicator-keyboard only works with Xkb layouts and IBus IMs

Some of the changes we need:

- Add support for Fcitx input sources to unity-settings-daemon, 
unity-control-center, indicator-keyboard
- Customize the Fcitx indicator under Unity to show some menu options that are 
available in indicator-keyboard (already merged upstream)
- Hide indicator-keyboard in the session when Fcitx' indicator is visible
- Add D-Bus property to Fcitx API for the current IM, so that we can detect 
when the user changes the current IM in the Fcitx indicator, and update the 
current input source accordingly (already merged upstream)
- Use indicator-keyboard icons for keyboard layouts in Fcitx and fcitx-qimpanel 
when running under Unity

We have a PPA that includes most of the proposed changes. It is
available at https://launchpad.net/~fcitx-team/+archive/ubuntu/fcitx-
transition. It does not hide indicator-keyboard in the session yet, as
having both indicators visible is helpful for testing purposes.

** Affects: indicator-keyboard
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: unity-control-center
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: unity-settings-daemon
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: fcitx (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: fcitx-qimpanel (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: indicator-keyboard (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Affects: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: patch

** Also affects: unity-control-center
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: indicator-keyboard
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: fcitx
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** No longer affects: fcitx

** Also affects: indicator-keyboard (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: unity-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: unity-control-center (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: fcitx (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Also affects: fcitx-qimpanel (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Branch linked: lp:~attente/indicator-keyboard/fcitx-transition

** Branch linked: lp:~attente/unity-settings-daemon/fcitx-transition

** Branch linked: lp:~attente/unity-control-center/fcitx-transition

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  [FFe] Fcitx input method integration in Unity

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