Re: Questions (about CJK input) on GNOME 3.6 live image

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Sat, Oct 6, 2012 at 2:33 PM, Ma Xiaojun <damage3025 gmail com> wrote:
> The live image is downloaded from:
> http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/misc/promo-usb/GNOME-3.6.0.iso

Hey, thanks for testing this, and providing feedback !


> Firstly, according to "rpm -qa | grep ibus" and Input Sources tab,
> there is no Chinese input sources but there is Japanese (ibus-anthy)
> and Korean (ibus-hangul) input sources. Why is that?

It is an oversight. We'll fix that for the next spin.


> Secondly, Both Anthy and Hangul has setup UI. However, in the Input
> Sources tab, only Hangul's setup UI is accessible.
> You can access Anthy's setup UI through the following command, though.
> python /usr/share/ibus-anthy/setup/main.py

I don't know for sure, but I think this is probably because the ibus
engine doesn't provide information about the config app in its
metadata.


> Thirdly, there is no input source switching shortcut by default. Even
> if I manually set Ctrl+Space and Shift+Ctrl+Space, there is no OSD
> when switching. I'm expecting something like this:
> http://desktopi18n.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/ibus-new-controlspace-window/

We didn't get the OSD done for 3.6; it is planned for 3.8.
See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682315


> Fourthly, can I set input sources to be application-wide rather than
> global? It is a feature found in both IBus 1.4 and Mac OS X. A obvious
> reason on Linux is that I don't want to use CJK input when I'm using
> Terminal. Why should I have to manually switching to "en" every time?

How we can integrate app-specific layouts into the current model is
being discussed in
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684210
For now, somebody already wrote an extension that does the equivalent
of the old 'layout per window' checkbox.

> Fifthly, can you remove the application launch for im-chooser? It
> maybe useful for non-IBus users. However, currently it is just broken
> and confuses uninformed users.

Just another oversight in putting together the live cd. We'll get that
fixed in the next spin.

Thanks again !


Matthias