the ibus-kde IM requires plasma-widget-kimpanel and ibus-gtk but they are not installed

[Jonathan Riddell]

On 8 October 2010 07:46, Pan Shi Zhu <pan.shizhu at gmail.com> wrote:
> ibus-kde is an input method in package: plasma-widget-kimpanel-backend-ibus
>
> It require the following:
> 1. kimpanel plasma widget present in the kde panel.
> 2. ibus-gtk package installed in order to show icons correctly.
>
> Currently, Kubuntu choose ibus-kde as the default input method but kimpanel
> is not in the panel, and ibus-gtk package is not installed.
>
> We may have two choices to resolve this problem:
> 1. add ibus-gtk as the dependency of kimpanel and put kimpanel in kubuntu
> panel by default.
> 2. or just use ibus instead of ibus-kde. which does not have any dependency.

Hi, sorry for the late reply.

You say we choose ibus-kde but could just choose ibus.  Do you know
where this is set?  What is the disadvantage for choosing just ibus?

Jonathan