On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:58 AM, Karen Zagorski <1045...@bugs.launchpad.net> wrote: > i guess canonical doesn't care... I really think about going back to > windows after so many years on linux, coz all distributions have the > same issue, the idea of ubuntu was fixing THAT, not making amazon lenses
I won't go back to proprietary OS but I feel that Karen Zagorski made a good point. We used to have unattractive, but almost working environment like GNOME 2. We believed that some remaining glitches would be resolved in a few releases. It turns out that we get ground breaking stuff like GNOME 3 and Unity in 2011. We are now struggling about things that probably been done right since Windows 95. I haven't seen any improvements that could potentially increase productivity / usability for quite a long time. Talking about Canonical management or Mark Shuttleworth, I guess they don't realize how buggy current Ubuntu is. So they continue to seek new targets. I actually interested in whether I can evaluate healthiness of current Ubuntu by doing some statistics. Many packages are indeed unhealthy because there are many unanswered bug reports piled up. After a long spam, I'd give some advice on IBus users, if any. I encourage you to use Fcitx in GNOME Shell environment. I still encourage you to use IBus in KDE, LXDE, MATE, Xfce, Unity plus WMs. Because GNOME input integration is a mess. The upstream integration is problematic, as included in Fedora 18 (not released yet). There are distributions disabled IBus integration like Arch and openSUSE 12.3 (not released yet). There is a distribution called Ubuntu 12.10 that mix GNOME 3.4/3.6 stuff. Fcitx ported most, if not all, third-party IBus engines. It has a well maintained Shell extension: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/261/kimpanel/ ( All input method frameworks have working tray icon, but GNOME developers don't like tray icons, so tray icons disappear in GNOME Shell. Besides, IBus in Ubuntu has indicator patch, which may added an additional layer of complexity.) Switching to Fcitx and getting timely support from its mailing list is the only working solution for inputting stuff under GNOME Shell. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1045914 Title: Keyboard layout doesn't show in GNOME Shell session To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-shell/+bug/1045914/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
