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Bug#557555: [Qt] Qt applications don't heed global QT_IM_MODULE



Package: libqtcore4
Version: 4:4.5.3-4
Severity: normal

Dear Qt maintainers,
I've recently installed Debian for somebody needing support for entering
traditional Chinese characters. I chose iBus to allow that and works great so
far. To enable iBus at login time there is a small one-liner in the
.kde4/Autostart directory and three lines in the .bashrc, including
> export QT_IM_MODULE=ibus

And while Gtk+ or X applications honer the exported variable and allow iBus to
be activated for them, Qt applications don't.

A workaround for the time being is to start any Qt application from e.g.
terminal with
> QT_IM_MODULE=ibus [APPLICATION]&
where [APPLICATION] is replaced by the application's name, e.g. kwrite.

This behaviour was observed with KWrite, Skype and some other Qt-based
applications. Gtk+-based applications like Pidgin or Iceweasel work as expected
(hitting Ctrl + space activates the iBus input method).

If you should need further information, please feel free to ask me, I'll run the
tests and return the information ASAP.

Kind regards,
Kai Wasserbäch

P.S.: Setting QT4_IM_MODULE doesn't help either.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6-cabal
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL
set to de_DE.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libqtcore4 depends on:
ii  libc6                  2.10.1-7          GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libgcc1                1:4.4.1-4         GCC support library
ii  libglib2.0-0           2.22.2-2          The GLib library of C routines
ii  libstdc++6             4.4.1-4           The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii  zlib1g                 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-15 compression library - runtime

libqtcore4 recommends no packages.

libqtcore4 suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information



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