Bug#942245: Ibus doesn't offer french-latin9 keymap
On 2019-10-17 22:26:38, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 12:51:45AM +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
>> Source: ibus
>> Version: 1.5.19-4+b1
>> Severity: normal
>>
>> Dear maintainer,
>>
>> As far as I can see, it is not possible to do the equivalent of a
>> setxkbmap fr latin9 with ibus. French alternative and French are not
>> latin9. This forces me to either use ibus and have a bad default keymap
>> or to disable ibus (currently my choice, using im-config with no
>> profile).
>
> As pointed out by Gunnar, ibus upstream started to include XKB layouts
> into it recently. This may be the root cause of problem.
>
> Also ibus upstream is not RH packager any more. So RH has slightly
> different source. What code base chase is one big question.
>
> I saw Antoine forcing to use xim by setting GTK_IM_MODULE environment
> variable to xim instead of ibus. I now know his motivation. But ibus
> library to use xim as its input path will cause trouble since this is
> buggy.
Honestly, I have no idea what I'm doing... I was just shooting in the
dark to try and figure out why "alt-2" wasn't giving me "@".
>> Would it be possible to include "French (latin9)" in ibus choices of
>> keymap?
>
> Since input scheme diverged a lot and we also have to deal with systemd
> and wayland, it is getting difficult for previous maintainers like me to
> keep up with all these. (The same is said for im-config)
It would be great if the keyboard layouts would just be delegated to
XKB... having duplicate sources there will just bring confusion
everywhere...
A.
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