Hi, Under linux, input method is always being a mess: 1. Start it correctly ubuntu, debian: im-switch, im-config fedora: imsettings opensuse: their own script and I don't really know package name about it.
im-switch and im-config have bug so long time, and all of them are distro specific. 2. Relation betwen keyboard layout and input method Agree it or not, keyboard layout is only a kinds of special input method, and it should live with input method, Now, more and more input method are taking care of keyboard layout (which means it would just conflict with kde's own keyboard layout settings), but it's the correct way to go: Here comes my beloved usecase :D User is using a Chinese input method, which expect it to be something similar with qwerty, but if you're using a de layout, it will type some non-sense character. And idea is, input method have layout on its own, and should be take care by input method itself (if they can). So, leaving user with keyboard layout settings provided by kde if input method can already handle it doesn't make any sense. Under upper idea, I wrote some code, now it's only complete the idea 1. https://github.com/csslayer/kde-input-method Currently it only have fcitx's profile for test (since I'm selffish fcitx dev), but it's trivial to add others (gcin, hime, ibus, maliit). It provides distro independent start up and environment handling (by global kde env script), input method process starting and monitoring (by kded). BTW kded part can be also adopted by plasma-active. Configure button in kcm is not implemented yet. Currently it has its own kcm, which I want to have it sit in kcm-component- chooser. And for backward compatibilty, it can be switch to "none" and in that way nothing will be affected. And I need input from kcm-keyboard maintainer (already in CC) and non-CJK people. I'm not sure about which list should be CC to, so I only send to kde- devel for now. Regards, Xuetian
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