Re: Bug#680668: tasksel: Input methods for chinese - (Was: Updating chinese-t-desktop in tasksel for Wheezy.)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello!

> On Jan 12, 2019, at 10:02 AM, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) <mwei@debian.org> wrote:
> 
> or we can follow task-chinese-s-desktop and use fcitx instead of ibus in
> task-chinese-t-desktop:
> 
> fcitx,
> fcitx-chewing,
> fcitx-table,
> im-config,
> fonts-arphic-ukai,
> fonts-arphic-uming,
> fonts-noto, # this seems to be unnecessary, but not really sure.
> fonts-noto-cjk,
> libreoffice-l10n-zh-tw,
> libreoffice-help-zh-tw,
> firefox-esr-l10n-zh-tw | firefox-l10n-zh-tw,
> poppler-data

I haven’t yet understood why people are moving to fcitx. I have tried it myself after it was automatically installed on my openSUSE machine to replace iBus and found it completely unusable. I didn’t even manage to get any input languages added.

I am using iBus for writing Japanese and I consider it the superior and simpler-to-use solution.

Is there anything that fcitx is supposed to do better than iBus?

Adrian