Re: Preferred IBus IM for Traditional Chinese

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj@debian.org>]

On 2023-02-17 04:49, Kan-Ru Chen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 13, 2023, at 9:52 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> > Hi all, especially the Chinese speaking members!
> >
> > Is ibus-chewing still the best IBus IM for Traditional Chinese?
> >
> > $ apt depends task-chinese-t-gnome-desktop task-chinese-t-gnome-desktop
> >     Depends: tasksel (= 3.71)
> >     Recommends: ibus-chewing
> >     Recommends: gnome-initial-setup
> >
> > I ask because a user at Ask Ubuntu claimed that "the character
> > selection is horrible", and I also see that upstream is not so
> > active.
>
> It is still the best IM for me, but I'm one of the maintainer for the
> libchewing project so I'm likely biased :-)
>
> Recently upstream has become more active again. After the libchewing
> 0.6 release I plan to migrate chewing settings used by ibus to newer
> gtk version.

Thanks for your input, Kan-Ru Chen.

> Anything else do you want to see added to the project?

I'm assuming that that question is directed to users who — unlike me — 
actually use ibus-chewing. ;)

I was just passing a random remark at Ask Ubuntu. And as a follow-up of 
that I can mention that I made the user try ibus-libzhuyin, and he 
responded with "libzhuyin is way better than chewing or zhuyin in word 
selection". I'm not able to tell if that is true, but leave it to others 
to determine if it's worth paying attention to.

--
Rgds,
Gunnar