[Bug 1551283] Re: ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME

[Alkis Georgopoulos]

Hi Gunnar,

> May I ask: Which display language are you using? If it's something
else but Greek, can you please switch to Greek, log out, log in again,
and then try to type in Greek (with IBus running). Does that make a
difference?

I tested with display language = Greek. I haven't tested with display
language = English.

> Also, just to make sure: Is your Xenial updated with the latest
package versions?

Yes.

> Well, it started with bug #1550325, where it was reported that some
applications need IBus to work. Maybe that's true for other flavors but
MATE. Then there is the inconsistency in Ubuntu GNOME, which led to the
confusion resulting in this bug report.

>From what I read there, some people reported that xim doesn't work for them.
Noone reported that ibus or xim are useful for people that don't need any input method at all.

> Nah, I don't think IBus requires a lot of memory. Please note that
IBus is running in Unity and Ubuntu GNOME, whatever the settings are.
(Only some environment variables differ.) I don't know about Gnome
Flashback in this respect.

I did report that ibus breaks the first Greek accented character in Unity as well.
Many people don't have the knowledge to pinpoint that ibus is what breaks their keyboard input, and just live with their problems.


Gunnar,
1) Would you be willing to accept a patch that makes im-config default to None in all desktop environments, in locales that don't need ibus or xim?
2) If not, is it possible to make language-selector-gnome NOT depend on im-config?
Or ubuntu-desktop not depend on language-selector-gnome?
Now we can't even uninstall im-config without uninstalling ubuntu-desktop, so we will have to resort to dpkg-divert to bypass this current issue... i.e. that 16.04 will be the first LTS release that we won't be able to properly type in Greek, in all desktop environments.

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Title:
  ibus/im-config in Ubuntu GNOME

Status in Ubuntu GNOME:
  New
Status in gnome-control-center package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in gnome-session package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in im-config package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  In the gnome-language-selector one is able to set the "Keyboard input
  method system". For instance on my system I can either set it to
  "none", "IBus", or "fcitx". However there is no such option in the
  gnome-control-center's Region & Language section, though I think that
  there should be.

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