Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 08:43 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote:
> Rather a long discussion over IBus, but it seems to more or less boil
> down to two voices and this:
> 
> Gnome developers: we want tighter IM integration and simpler UI in the
> name of better UX, and are looking at IBus as the underlying technology,
> 
> Users: IBus has poor support for CJK input and a history of not
> addressing these problems.
>
> The developers desire for improving the UX is commendable, but without
> core functionality there is no UX regardless of how sweet the UI; in the
> UX contest ugly menu wins over no keyboard hands down; Linux users will
> put up with a lot, but I dare to say (though I am not a UX designer!) we
> all draw the line at not being able to use the keyboard.
> 
> CJK represents a big target user group that Gnome cannot afford to
> ignore; it would seem to me that the necessary conclusion here is that,
> at this point in time, IBus is not a suitable candidate for a singular
> IM framework supported by Gnome, and that any plans for immediate IM
> improvements need to be rethought to avoid hard IBus dependency.

Tomas - I think there might be some confusion here. IBus is developed by
Chinese and Japanese developers and is certainly capable of entering
text in these languages.

- Owen