ibus's indicator's support or not

[Zhengpeng Hou]

Hi all,
First of all, indicator is very nice and great! I like it a lot, ibus get
its support from previous release cycle.
And because indicator is under very active  development, its very hard to
get it merged back to ibus upstream.
There is a pkg-ime team on Debian side who are taking care of those input
method related packages, but seems
we don't have such a team on Ubuntu side, so its a little bit hard to let us
benefit from the latest version of ibus[1].
And recently, Karl has made a merge for ibus from sid, which doesn't get the
latest ibus work with indicator support in maverick.[2]
So, its block the latest ibus to our repositary, and because of ibus can't
be upgraded, then those latest IME also being blocked . And we all know that
input method is the key application which being needed for most of non-latin
users, especially for CJK users, therefore, I propose to drop indicator's
support to ibus for now, and leverage Debian's effort directly.

Cheers
Zhengpeng





1 https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2010-March/030510.html
2 https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ibus/+bug/564034
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