mozc support in the default ISO

[Mitsuya Shibata]

>> I guess we need to patch gnome-desktop if Ubuntu decides to use
>> different default input methods for certain languages.
>
> What significance does the default input source have on GNOME? Are we
> affected atm? I'm asking because my understanding is that this is determined
> in Ubuntu by the installer and language-selector (pkg_depends).

This table used to detect which input source is used at a locale.
https://developer.gnome.org/gnome-desktop3/stable/gnome-desktop3-Language-Utilities.html#gnome-get-input-source-from-locale

Mainly used is at "Input Source Chooser" on System Settings / Region &
Language
/ Input Sources menu. The chooser get default input source type (xkb
or
ibus) and engine (jp or anthy) for specified locale.

However Input Source Chooser will retrieve "valid", normally equal to
"installed", engine from ibus instance, and filter out not installed
engine.
That is, if ibus-kkc and/or ibus-anthy are not installed, Input Source Chooser
doesn't show up these choices (I guess).

In System Settings context, if gnome_get_input_source_from_locale() will return
"ibus-mozc", there is a possibility to drop ubuntu_ibus_configs.patch from
gnome-settings-daemon package.


2017-10-21 11:23 GMT+09:00 Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com>:
> On 2017-10-21 02:44, Jeremy Bicha wrote:
>>
>> gnome-desktop 3.27.1 was released today and changed GNOME's default
>> Japanese input method from ibus-anthy to ibus-kkc.
>>
>> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-desktop/commit/?id=9c1aea9d
>>
>> The GNOME bug is interesting since it originally requested switching
>> to ibus-mozc (Ubuntu's current default) but eventually they
>> preferred to use kkc because it has GTK+ tools:
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/787664
>>
>> I guess we need to patch gnome-desktop if Ubuntu decides to use
>> different default input methods for certain languages.
>>
>>
>> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-desktop/tree/libgnome-desktop/default-input-sources.h
>
>
> What significance does the default input source have on GNOME? Are we
> affected atm? I'm asking because my understanding is that this is determined
> in Ubuntu by the installer and language-selector (pkg_depends).
>
> May be worth mentioning the history, btw:
>
> 14.04 - ibus-anthy
> 16.04 - fcitx-mozc
> 17.10 - ibus-mozc
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Mitsuya Shiata
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