Package: fcitx Version: 1:4.2.7-2 Severity: normal There seem to be some usability problems with fcitx [1]. After installing, for instance, fcitx-googlepinyin, the Chinese input works fine but plain latin (English) input is no longer accessible.
The documentation seems to refer to a need to have some "Keyboard" entry in the input method list, but no much entry can be found in the Configuration Tool. Shouldn't it (the normal X/Gnome keyboard) be included automatically anyway? This is on Gnome 3 (gnome-shell 3.4.2-7) The workaround is to shutdown fcitx, which is not so useful. Thanks, Drew [1] If a "default" installation is done, just installing fcitx alone, then no input method is installed at all. So it appears to a dumb casual user as though fcitx is just broken. It would be better if some input methods were installed, perhaps as a Recommends. Of course fcitx does not know if you want Korean, Japanese or Chinese input (and which version of them). Would a better default be to install the most common input method of each language? I think the comparison could be made with xserver-xorg, which installs all video drivers via xserver-xorg-video-all, unless a user specifies a specific one (which provides xserver-xorg-video). By analogy, fcitx could Depends: fcitx-input-method-common | fcitx-input-method. fcitx-input-method-common would be a dummy package that depends on selected common methods, while each separate method would Provides: fcitx-input-method. -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.8-1-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages fcitx depends on: ii fcitx-bin 1:4.2.7-2 ii fcitx-data 1:4.2.7-2 ii fcitx-modules 1:4.2.7-2 Versions of packages fcitx recommends: ii fcitx-config-gtk 0.4.6-3 ii fcitx-frontend-all 1:4.2.7-2 ii fcitx-ui-classic 1:4.2.7-2 ii im-config [im-switch] 0.21 Versions of packages fcitx suggests: pn fcitx-m17n <none> pn fcitx-tools <none> -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
