Hi, list. According to http://packages.ubuntu.com/raring/ubuntu-desktop ubuntu-desktop recommends ibus and friends.
I'd like to question it since: 1. The coverage of IBus stuff is limited. Only Pinyin engine would be usable, which is merely one particular method of inputting one particular language. ( ibus-table needs data package to make it useful. ) It won't work in Qt4 applications since ibus-qt4 won't be installed. ( IBus upstream don't provide support for other Qt versions. ) 2. IBus is not a hard dependency and there are IBus alernatives. Nothing should break in Unity if IBus is uninstalled and a custom built version of IBus is installed. IBus has notable alternatives like Fcitx. Removing unnecessary dependency of IBus stuff from ubuntu-desktop can make derivatives, e.g., UbuntuKylin life a bit easier I guess. (disclosure: I installed UK recently but the installer somehow screwed up and IBus is still pulled.) -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
