** Changed in: indicator-keyboard (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Invalid
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1430971
Title:
Users not warned about switch to fcitx and no instructions are given
Status in indicator-keyboard package in Ubuntu:
Invalid
Status in unity-control-center package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in unity-settings-daemon package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Bug description:
Received the newest update to 0.0.0+15.04.20150310 a few minutes ago.
There is a significant change to behavior with the change to fcitx
from ibus.
Users, however, are given no warning and no instructions on how to get
their preferred input methods set up again.
This has the potential to cause major inconveniences to users of non-
English input methods, especially for Asian and other languages where
the user needs a full IM and not just an alternative keyboard.
1. Users need to be notified of the change and of the need install the
necessary fcitx packages. Most users will need some instructions on
what to do.
2. After installing fcitx-libpinyin, the Input Method Configuration
dialog still showed only keyboard layouts -- even after a reboot. I
had to restart fcitx using the restart option in the drop-down menu
before additional (non-keyboard) options showed up in the list.
3. After that, finding pinyin input was still not intuitive. Past
dialogs had you search for 'Chinese', then choose the appropriate
method. In this case, however, 'Chinese' is only used in the 2nd
(right) column, which is apparently not searched; so typing 'Chinese'
led to no results. After removing the search term and scrolling to the
bottom of the list, I saw that the IM's are listed by method name
(Pinyin, BoPoMoFo, etc) and do not use the name of the language in the
1st (left) column. This is not expected by users and not consistent
with the name of the keyboard methods.
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