On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 12:51 PM, Aron Xu <happyaron...@gmail.com> wrote: > I see your point, and I agree it's not intuitive. But unfortunately we > can't add ibus to Recommends for all desktop tasks, and even if any > GNOME package do that then it is a bug. > It's a long story to tell the whole thing, but in short it is not an > ideal solution because some (significant amount of) users have other > preference on input method framework other than ibus. It could be > added to ibus package so that users of ibus get this feature by > default. It's up to you. Why we integrate Vi when user base of Emacs, Nano is also huge? Provide a default and let the tweakers do whatever they want.
> There were some discussions about how the input method integration > should be implemented in GNOME, but the outcome was that GNOME > designers and developers disagreed to accept the advices from input > method developers and took an approach that has led us to an > embarrassing situation. Better to summarize as the developer and fans of one IMF try to prevent GNOME from integrating another IMF. > If you'd like to choose which input method framework to use, try > im-config. After you have installed the package, run the command > "im-config" from a terminal and then follow the guide. > Ubuntu has language-selector, a tool said to be deprecated by GNOME's > new control center component, but the replace won't happen in the > upcoming 12.10 at least. The input method framework selection part of > language-selector is a frontend of im-switch, which has been > deprecated by im-config in Debian. If the tool won't get out of 13.04, > I'll try to push patch to migrate it from im-switch to im-config. We > won't have that tool because it manages language packs and fonts as > well, which are pointless for Debian. That's the solution favored by some people. They know im-config on Debian, im-switch on Ubuntu, im-chooser on Fedora, System/Environment/Language/INPUT_METHOD on openSUSE... They also know input method related environmental variables (apply to all distribution). Happy tweaking! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
