True, it's capable.
but u ought to know "just can work" is far away from "work well", although ibus developers have done a lot to make it better.
On May 13, 2012 10:46 PM, "Owen Taylor" <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
>
> 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
>
>
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