Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

[Takao Fujiwara <tfujiwar redhat com>]

(05/15/12 18:12), Weng Xuetian-san wrote:
> On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 5:07 PM, Takao Fujiwara<tfujiwar redhat com>  wrote:
> > (05/15/12 15:28), Marguerite Su-san wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 11:11 AM, Takao Fujiwara<tfujiwar redhat com>
> > >   wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I'm working on the ibus integration.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > (05/13/12 13:31), Justin Wong-san wrote:
> > > > > Well this is how ibus is done, as u can see, ugly.
> > > > >
> > > > > but i should say  users would never see this long long menu, because
> > > > > this
> > > > > menu provides 13 kinds of input methods for users, where normal users
> > > > > use
> > > > > less than 3 input methods, this screenshot is just to show ibus can
> > > > > provide so many IMs....
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > The long menu has been enhanced in the latest ibus-gjs gtk3-vala branch.
> > > > But
> > > > it still do not work in other distros because we're discussing how the
> > > > internal patches are resolved.
> > > > Probably the latest will be available for other distros soon.
> > > > We're still discussing the better UI.
> > > >
> > > > >      >    https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/261/kimpanel/
> > > > >      >
> > > > > https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/68/input-method-status-indicator/
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Sorry, it's a bit old as I explained above.
> > > > It would miss some important features against the last ibus-gjs. E.g.
> > > > using
> > > > libgnomekbd and preloaded xkb engines.
> > > > Yes, ibus-gjs does not support fcitx because upstream suggests to pick up
> > > > one input method as the implementation itself would be possible.
> > >
> > > Welcome! fujuwara, as IBus developer!
> > >
> > > I'm glad to see this thread diversified.
> > >
> > > that sounds a little sad to me actually.
> > >
> > > then others really have to reinvent the wheels...and if deep
> > > integrated, to reinvent the wheels really hard.
> >
> >
> > Currently I suggest an option to check ibus-1.0.pc in configure.ac whether
> > gnome-shell enables ibus or not.
> > So probably I think the default recommended IMF would be ibus but it can be
> > configured by each distros.
> > I'm also thinking ibus-gjs provides the same UI with keyboard indicator when
> > ibus-daemon is not running.
>
> Hi, thank you for your understanding. Well actually I'm worry about this commit
>
> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-settings-daemon/commit/?h=wip/input-sources&id=fbdac0e6dc39b32fc386f391f227e31a05a39670
>
> Which might make gtk im module being set and maybe not easy to override.
>
> As far as I read gnome-shell code, seems it can work without ibus.

Ah, I didn't test the part of g-s-d yet in fact.
Personally I'd like to talk with desktop team later if a module could be acceptable likes /usr/lib*/gnome-settings-daemon-*/libibus.so .

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