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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

There are python issues with ibus-cangjie:

$ ibus-setup-cangjie cangjie
/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ibus_cangjie/setup.py:29: PyGIDeprecationWarning: Using positional arguments with the GObject constructor has been deprecated. Please specify keywords for schema or use a class specific constructor. See: https://wiki.gnome.org/PyGObject/InitializerDeprecations
  self.settings = Gio.Settings("org.cangjians.ibus.%s" % engine)
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/ibus-setup-cangjie", line 62, in <module>
    Setup(args.engine, datadir, gettext_package).run()
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/ibus_cangjie/setup.py", line 35, in __init__
    self.__builder.add_from_file(ui_file)
gi._glib.GError: /usr/share/ibus-cangjie/setup.ui:206:262 'property' is not a valid tag here

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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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