Bug#983695: ibus-anthy: does not work out of the box on the GNOME desktop
> On 2021-03-01 15:25, Shengjing Zhu wrote:
> > I'm not a GNOME user. But reading this, I feel it's seriously broken.
> > GNOME shouldn't take over the responsibility of tasksel to decide
> > what the IM engine to use.
> > Japanese GNOME desktop users should continue to use uim if it's
> > prefered by Japanese users.
> > And Chinese GNOME desktop users should continue to use fcitx as
> > their default IM engine.
>
> The GNOME (upstream) choice in this respect is unfortunate. A flexible
> design with support for multiple IM frameworks had of course been
> preferable. But they made their strategic decision several years ago,
> and we won't likely make them change their mind.
>
> Given the circumstances it's not obvious to me that Debian should keep
> defaulting to non-IBus IM frameworks on GNOME. A user who wants to use
> e.g. a Fcitx IM basically have the choice to
>
> 1. actively select Fcitx on a GNOME desktop, and with that give up some
> features which GNOME only offers together with IBus, or
>
> 2. switch to some other desktop environment.
>
> GNOME favors IBus, and Debian should relate to that IMO.
It's totally fine that GNOME only works with IBus. And there's no
blame for upstream for their choice.
But in Debian, it's a system, not just GNOME. When GNOME packager
changes its packaging relations, they should also work with other
teams, like tasksel, im-config, to provide users a working system.
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Shengjing Zhu
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