iBus alternatives

[Rafael Laguna]

I'm using now fcitx (with sogou, a CJK support). It's faster, themeable 
(very important :D) and included in Ubuntu repos. It's the language 
support that Ubuntu Kylin uses.



Rafael Laguna
Lubuntu Artwork Team

On mié, 1 oct, 2014 at 7:22 , ∅ <wxl at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Especially to those with non-English languages that aren't
> well-supported by simply using the Compose key: has anyone tried uim
> or scim?
> 
> I do a lot of Unicode (an ellipsis is NOT ..., it's …, people!) so I
> value an input manager, but I don't have a particular NEED to do it to
> communicate, so I'd like to get an opinion from others.
> 
> I've used scim and find it a little funkier than iBus (for example,
> for me, the Unicode input method is ONLY for Unicode so you'd have to
> type hex for every character, i.e. not cool). uim is a newer project
> that I have yet to play with. Anyone out there try it?
> 
> Turns out Xubuntu doesn't include ANY input manager in lieu of the
> problems with iBus. I feel like we probably should include something
> because of how many international users we have. I would expect the
> same for Xubuntu but maybe that's not the case.
> 
> Feel free to share your 2¢, 2£, or 2€ on the matter. ☺
> 
> wxl
> 
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