> IBus integration in GNOME >= 3.6.0 is filtering input method engines
> and properties, which makes most of the commonly used engines being
> filtered out, or being completely broken because their configuration
> menu items ("properties") are almost all being filtered out. Although
> engines that are not in its white list can be exposed in
> gnome-control-center by manually change a gsettings value, those
> engines cannot be used because the existence of white list filtering.Though the description here is not very accurate. I still agree this is a grave bug. > The items in white list are selected by GNOME developers that they > think are most sophisticated based on their opinion that inputting > using IME is just as easy as input Spanish using an US keyboard which > only needs one or very few options, but the actual situation is in the > contrary. It's a very complicated thing just like there are different > editors including vim, emacs, gedit and even more, and those editors > can't be limited by a DE. Maintaining a patch to that white list to > enable commonly used engines and properties is not feasible for a > downstream project, at least pkg-ime does not have any plan to support > such a move, so the best option is to drop IBus integration in GNOME > by configuring gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center with > --disable-ibus, which preserves the original behavior. Agree, we should never follow the problematic path. > There has been lots of complains in GNOME's desktop-devel-list from > Chinese users and developers, and there isn't real progress on > figuring such collision out right away. Currently Ubuntu has decided > to go with --disable-ibus for Raring with GNOME 3.6, and OpenSuSE does > not have the plan to support such a feature in foreseeable time. Only > Fedora has been officially being the test ground of GNOME so they have > the integration. I see no reason to enable it in Debian, as we are not > yet another test ground. In case some people want keep up with GNOME. Please help correcting GNOME's decision. The bugzilla discussion is probably more on topic than that ones of d-d-l. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688914 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688916 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
