I personally believe that a modern OS should include all languages out of box. OS X does this, Windows 8.1 is probably there also.
In the context of Ubuntu, we do have an annoying concept of language packs. I and others find it annoying because: * Net installing the language packs at the end of Ubuntu installation can have issues in too many ways * Installing languages packs after Ubuntu installation is confusing for beginners * As I tried some time ago, one cannot select all languages in language selector; there will be obscure error like locale running out of hash space Including ibus-pinyin is a workaround for language pack annoyance; at least there is some input engine there. Barebone ibus-table is definitely useless. But there are many counter-argument for ibus-pinyin inclusion: * It is merely useful for Simplified Chinese users; maybe they should use Ubuntu Kylin * Language pack of Simplified Chinese picks ibus-sunpinyin instead ibus-pinyin as Pinyin input engine * ibus-pinyin is not in good shape both upstream (almost dead) and downstream (outdated, problematic) * At English installation of Ubuntu requires non-intuitive enabling process of IBus engines (it is getting better because of keyboard-indicator, but keyboard-indicator has its blocking bugs) An alternative approach is that we include more IBus engines. We try to cover all the common languages (ibus-m17n should probably be avoided). We may reference GNOME/Fedora for a list of common IBus engines. I also wonder what is Ubuntu Touch doing on this issue. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164252 Title: Improve default selection of IBus related packages To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntukylin/+bug/1164252/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
