[Bug 1164252] Re: Improve default selection of IBus related packages

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

Let's add those to the list:

ibus-table-wubi
- pulls: ibus-table
- would need 11.8 MB

ibus-cangjie
- pulls: libcangjie2 libcangjie2-data python3-pycangjie
- would need 1.5 MB

So, then we have:
                             MB

Change in comment #7         31
+ ibus-table-wubi            11.8
+ ibus-cangjie                1.5
- ibus-chewing               -1.4
                             ----
                             43

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Title:
  Improve default selection of IBus related packages

Status in Ubuntu Kylin:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

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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