I wonder if it is an easy change to make kde-l10n-zhcn not depending on ibus as preset.
The problem might be if somebody installs a system based on kde-l10n- zhcn and there is no preset IME then there is no input possible in Chinese but only in English. Many Chinese people don't speak English, at least for them it would be difficult to use the fresh installed system, before add an IME. I am not aware of a method to make kde-l10n-zhcn dependend on a chooseable IME, where one method is obligatory and at least all IME with a bigger userbase would be available. So the discussion at the moment could only be if that should be changed to another IME, because more people are using it or because one is better than another. However this could be integrated in system installers of course, like choosing the language or keyboard layout and should be if the userbase of Chinese speaking Linux users is big enough to find developers who would do this quite big task, as this would have to be added to quite a lot of distributions than. I think this is the reason this "bug" isn't changed. In my Manjaro installation kde-l10n-zhcn installs only libibus as dependency, I can't uninstall it. I use fcitx, so I have an unused software of ~48 MiB - not such a big problem today. Even if I would prefer an integration in system installers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Translators Packages, which is subscribed to kde-l10n-zhcn in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1184077 Title: kde-l10n-zhcn depends on ibus-pinyin Status in One Hundred Papercuts: Confirmed Status in kde-l10n-zhcn package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Release: Kubuntu 13.04/KDE 4.10.3 Package: kde-l10n-zhcn Version 4.10.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu13.04~ppa1 What I wanted to do: Uninstall package ibus (IME), ibus-pinyin, ibus-pinyin-db-open-database, pinyin-database, python-ibus, libibus-1.0.0 What instead happened: 4.10.3-0ubuntu1~ubuntu13.04~ppa1 depends on package ibus-pinyin. Uninstalling ibus doesn't work, only if uninstalling kde-l10n-zhcn as well as languagepack-kde-zh-hans. Does that make sense? I use fcitx and there are more IME around. So I don't need ibus as far as I understand. Could that be changed? Thank you! ///// Also affect latest version 14.04 Kubuntu LTS To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts/+bug/1184077/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~translators-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~translators-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

