Bug#922334: ibus breaks KDE
Hi,
I just installed KDE (testing) to see...
I agree this is not the best situation for people under non-Gnome.
On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 04:33:08PM -0800, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > > If I exit that, the keyboard stopped working.
> >
> > You killed input method... so your key stop working. It's nice if ibus
> > tray is robust to restart automatically to enable keyboard. But ...
> > Excuse me this is not important bug.
>
> I didn't "kill" the input method. I choose "Exit" from its right-click-menu.
Yah. Right click menu has "Exit" which stops panel process.
That certainly causes lots of problem on keyboard input to running
processes. Maybe "Exit" shouldn't be there to prevent people to stop it
casually. You are not supposed to exit this panel process.
> > > Why does ibus start automatically in a KDE session but just installing it?
For people in Asia, it or its alternatives such as uim, fcitx are the
way to do keyboard input. This is the program designed to steal
keyboard inputs and convert them to many different UNICODE input data
stream. It can also help people to input Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, any
East European non-English characters via modern infrastructure.
GNOME used to configure it with ibus-setup but now it has its internal
component covering tasks which was handled by ibus-setup etc. So I
don't face this problem involving ibus-setup which is still used by
other DE. (Wayland transition has its own problem here ...)
> > > Exiting ibus shouldn't break my keyboard, it should just turn off
> > > input method features.
> >
> > I don't use KDE. So far on GNOME side, panel thing is not used.
> > Any fix suggestion is welcome.
>
> I don't have any idea what's even going on here still. I've never heard of an
> input method that consumes all keystrokes. I would love to give a specific
> suggestion to fix this, but I don't even know how im-config gets activated.
>
> > For now, this is user configuration issue.
>
> With all due respect, a user who runs into the same issue isn't going report
> the issue, they're going to consider Debian broken and install Fedora because
> keyboard functionality is so fundamental that should not be broken by merely
> installing a package or "Exit"ing from a feature most English speakers don't
> even use.
But English speaker don't need to install this. So wishlist.
Do I think this as bad situation ... I think so too.
Can I fix this ... no (time, technical skill, ...)
Did KDE or LXDE folks helped me, ... so far no
See other old problems ...
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=813111
I don't know how many of problems are solved externally.
What I need is people who is interested to keep their favorite GUI
platform to help me with functioning patches.
Osamu
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