Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

[Marguerite Su <i marguerite su>]

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:
> Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
>> Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>>
>>> We only have the development resources to ship one input method. It's
>>> going to need special code to integrate with Clutter and the St
>>> toolkit. If IBus is bad right now, we need to fix it.
>>
>> Or use fcitx instead of IBus? I honestly do not know the topic, but I
>> read the emails from Marguerite Su and believe she brought important
>> points. I'd like to understand what are the plus points of IBus today.
>
> I can't provide a technical comparison. What I can say is that I have
> established a productive relationship with the iBus team as I've
> worked on this feature, and I've had some productive (and quite
> detailed) design conversations with them. They seem committed to
> making iBus work with GNOME, and are are working towards that end.
>
> Allan
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what if after one or two years, a brand-new IM comes.

then you guys will remove all ibus codes and start what you do today again?

and after another one or two years, again again.

then it becomes you guys' life-time career to fix bugs and reinvent the wheels.

Marguerite