Advanced input methods in 17.10/18.04

[Joakim Walldén]

Hi.

Fcitx currently does not support Wayland, but the status of that support is
“in progress”: https://fcitx-im.org/wiki/Todo-List

Regards,
Joakim

2017-05-09 17:56 GMT+02:00 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>:

> unity-control-center supports both IBus and Fcitx. While IBus is launched
> by default for most users, Fcitx is the default IM framework for Chinese,
> Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese (CJKV). Thus, if you select a CJKV language
> when installing Ubuntu, Fcitx is the IM framework in use at first login.
>
> gnome-control-center (g-c-c) only supports IBus, and in Ubuntu GNOME IBus
> is the default IM framework irrespective of the selected language.
>
> Since the fix of <https://launchpad.net/bugs/1594681>, and even if g-c-c
> does not support it, the Ubuntu GNOME users have the option to use Fcitx or
> some other alternative to IBus. If doing so they need to set up the input
> method(s) using e.g. Fcitx Configuration, not g-c-c.
>
> The decision to switch to Fcitx as default for CJKV in Ubuntu was made for
> a reason. The Fcitx tools are better maintained and preferred over IBus by
> many CJKV users, not least for Simplified Chinese.
>
> Going forward I suppose we have these options:
>
> 1. Implement support for Fcitx in g-c-c and keep Fcitx as the default IM
> framework for CJKV. (Does anybody have time to add Fcitx support to g-c-c?
> Would it be possible to have it accepted upstream?)
>
> 2. Keep Fcitx as the default IM framework for CJKV, and let the affected
> users live with the missing g-c-c integration. (I can't tell how well
> tested the use of other IM frameworks but IBus in Ubuntu GNOME is.)
>
> 3. Go back to IBus as the default IM framework for all languages.
>
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