[kubuntu-devel] Making IBus usable in Kubuntu

Scott Kitterman ubuntu at kitterman.com
Tue Aug 7 05:26:18 UTC 2012


On Thursday, August 02, 2012 09:43:49 AM Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday, August 02, 2012 12:14:09 PM AWASHIRO Ikuya wrote:
> > Hi Scott,
> >
> > 
> >
> > I added several changes to my PPA.
> > https://launchpad.net/~ikuya-fruitsbasket/+archive/kimpanel
> > In my opinion, plasma-widget-kimpanel-backend-ibus should have its own
> > im-switch script for (hopefully near) the future.
> > /etc/xdg/autostart/kimpanel-ibus-panel.desktop is not good idea.
> >
> > 
> >
> > And, kubuntu-desktop doesn't depend ibus (but ibus-qt4 do).
> > It is time to add dependency.
> >
> > 
> >
> > $ apt-cache show ibus
> > Package: ibus
> > Priority: optional
> > --snip--
> > Task: ubuntu-desktop, ubuntu-usb, edubuntu-desktop, edubuntu-usb,
> > xubuntu-desktop, lubuntu-desktop, ubuntustudio-desktop
...
> For precise, we need to do the minimum change to get things working.  I
> think  your ~ppa1 package represents that and I've included those changes
> in the KDE SC 4.8.5 packaging I'm working on.

This is done and in the Kubuntu updates PPA (ppa:kubuntu-ppa/ppa).  I would 
appreciate it if interested people would test this and see if it works.

Scott K



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