[Bug 1164252] [NEW] Improve default selection of IBus related packages

[Ma Xiaojun]

Public bug reported:

Currently we have:

"""
Input methods:

 * (im-config)
 * (ibus)
 * (ibus-gtk3)
 * (ibus-table)
 * (ibus-pinyin)
 * (ibus-pinyin-db-android)
"""

This is suboptimal in many ways.
1. ibus-gtk should be included, since we have notable GTK2 applications like Firefox and LibreOffice.
2. ibus-table doesn't provide a working input method by itself, it needs at least one of ibus-table-* package to work.
3. ibus-pinyin is useful for only limited set of people; even Simplified Chinese language support defaults to ibus-sunpinyin while UbuntuKylin and LinuxDeepin (a noteable Ubuntu-based distro in China) switch to Fcitx altogether.

The conclusion is that the real workhorse IBus related packages would be pulled by language support.
For meta package like ubuntu-desktop, we either leave a barebone IBus (ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-gtk3) or remove IBus altogether.

** Affects: ubuntu-meta (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: raring

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Title:
  Improve default selection of IBus related packages

Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Currently we have:

  """
  Input methods:

   * (im-config)
   * (ibus)
   * (ibus-gtk3)
   * (ibus-table)
   * (ibus-pinyin)
   * (ibus-pinyin-db-android)
  """

  This is suboptimal in many ways.
  1. ibus-gtk should be included, since we have notable GTK2 applications like Firefox and LibreOffice.
  2. ibus-table doesn't provide a working input method by itself, it needs at least one of ibus-table-* package to work.
  3. ibus-pinyin is useful for only limited set of people; even Simplified Chinese language support defaults to ibus-sunpinyin while UbuntuKylin and LinuxDeepin (a noteable Ubuntu-based distro in China) switch to Fcitx altogether.

  The conclusion is that the real workhorse IBus related packages would be pulled by language support.
  For meta package like ubuntu-desktop, we either leave a barebone IBus (ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-gtk3) or remove IBus altogether.

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