GNOME and input method integration

Posted Jul 7, 2012 4:35 UTC (Sat) by rodgerd (guest, #58896)
In reply to: GNOME and input method integration by pizza
Parent article: GNOME and input method integration

You must have read a different article to the one I did; in the one I read, there is one option which has some shortcomings but is widely used by people who speak, read, and write CJK languages as the best option, and some other option considered vastly inferior for people who use the languages in question.

The GNOME developers, who don't for the most part have no first-hand expernience of the problem space, following their usual user-hostile model of development, ignored what their users told them and went with the less useful option on the grounds there will be jam tomorrow.

GNOME and input method integration

Posted Jul 7, 2012 15:13 UTC (Sat) by tuna (guest, #44480) [Link]

IBus for mainland standard Chinese and Japanese work pretty well. For Cantonese and other Chinese input method types it might not be as good as other input frameworks.

The upside if Gnome would add Ibus for 3.6 is that you would not have to add and configure a lot of extra software in order to input CJK.

In Fedora 17, there is one keyboard configuration tool and one Ibus configuration tool. It is way easier just to have one.