[Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#690605: Bug#690605: Bug#690605: Bug#690605: ibus-xkbc: not installed on with desktop metapackage

[Ma Xiaojun]

(Sorry, Aron, forgot reply to all)

On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 2:10 AM, Aron Xu <happyaron.xu at gmail.com> wrote:
> The situation here isn't that optimistic, because if one has enabled
> IBus integration at build time, then whenever a ibus-daemon exist no
> other input method can work because gnome-settings-daemon will force
> to use ibus by monitoring and resetting various variables. They are
> integrating configuration interface of IBus into gnome-control-center,
> but that's another thing for us to think about.
Are you thinking of multi-user environment where individual users can
select different IMFs? Otherwise I don't think removing IBus is a
burden, people like other IMF tends to do it anyway.

> As yesterday the discussion about making systemd a hard dependency of
> some important GNOME components, how to deal with the problem for
> Debian and Ubuntu remains a question. But we can port
> language-selector to im-config by a easy patch, and the reason for not
> porting it for such a long time is because of the lack of hands.
> Ubuntu developers have thought about using GNOME's input method
> configuration UI, but it's far more harder for them to stick with
> current language-selector. The original author of language-selector
> left the company for more than a year ago, and that piece of software
> is just being maintained to "work", no new plans so far.
Ubuntu is focusing on Unity, which is largely based GNOME.
So they cannot tolerate GNOME "regression" such as Nautilus propagates
to Unity, you know, they ship earlier version of Nautilus in 12.10.
For Debian, let GNOME be GNOME.