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

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

So far no IM user has replied to Sebastien's message at ubuntu-devel.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2014-February/038104.html

Seeding a bunch if IM engines seems to be an uphill project, so for
14.04 I ask that my original merge proposal (dropping ibus-pinyin) is
sponsored as a resolution of this bug.

The desktop guide for 14.04 will state the need to install desired IM
engines in one way or the other:

http://people.ubuntu.com/~gunnarhj/keyboard-layouts.html

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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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