Bug#992670: ibus: drop ibus-gtk and im-config to Suggests

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

Hi,

On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 00:49 +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote:
> I think the best choice is to keep ibus-gtk in Recommends, as long as there are
> gtk2 apps in Debian.
> 
> Without ibus-gtk installed, XIM will be used as the fallback and its bugs will
> confuse users. There are already several open bugs about this. When ibus-gtk was in
> OR'ed Recommends, many users just did "apt install ibus" and had trouble with XIM
> unnecessarily.
> 
> Fixing the bugs is not an answer; this legacy protocol has its limits and ambiguity
> in the design.The ibus upstream refuses to fix XIM related bugs and I also think
> those bugs are not worth fixing. 

I agree.

Also, even if GTK2 is dropped from Debian completely, there is no real negative
impact for im-config to offer an extra environment variable.  We can be the last for
GTK3/4 transition.

Osamu