Re: 3.6 Feature: IBus/XKB integration

[Justin Wong <justin w xd gmail com>]

I'm a end-user of Gnome and Fcitx, and co-developer of this extension (https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/261/kimpanel/)

One year ago i was still using iBus as my first-choice input method, but it has bugs and runs slowly, so i turned to fcitx. Fcitx is now growing up smoothly and has a lot of new features, for example i'm now using fcitx-keyboard for English inputing which has spell-checker and word prediction for i'm not a native english speaker.

In technical way,  as far as i know iBus now also has a gnome-shell extension to integrate with gnome-shell via DBus, with no special code. Fcitx did the same way but just some difference in implementation.

the kimpanel-gnome-shell extension is a gjs implementation of Kimpanel which provides a general communication interface with IMs via DBus, it now works well with gnome-shell.  there is a screenshot i took while writing this mail (http://static.bigeagle.me/kimpanel-gnome-shell.png).   *And it can also work with ibus.*

My point is neither ibus nor fcitx should be the default IM or even the ONLY IM for gnome, that would be a tragedy for users, and making me think of m$ and IE. What if ibus cannot satisfy me? Should i give up Gnome for a better IM?

In technical way, it's NOT difficult to make a general abstraction for IM, which can be middleware for most IMs to work well with gnome. Kimpanel for KDE is a good example.  and as far as i know, Weng Xuetian is now planning for Kimpanel2, which fixes some historical protocol bugs of kimpanel.  He would be glad to help u to do this work. 

I love gnome and fcitx , and ibus , too. So just let theme to live together. 

On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 12:56 AM, Allan Day <allanpday gmail com> wrote:

Frederic Peters <fpeters gnome org> wrote:
> Jasper St. Pierre wrote:
>
>> We only have the development resources to ship one input method. It's
>> going to need special code to integrate with Clutter and the St
>> toolkit. If IBus is bad right now, we need to fix it.
>
> Or use fcitx instead of IBus? I honestly do not know the topic, but I
> read the emails from Marguerite Su and believe she brought important
> points. I'd like to understand what are the plus points of IBus today.

I can't provide a technical comparison. What I can say is that I have
established a productive relationship with the iBus team as I've
worked on this feature, and I've had some productive (and quite
detailed) design conversations with them. They seem committed to
making iBus work with GNOME, and are are working towards that end.

Allan
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