Re: Freeze break request - IBus Anthy input source menu items

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Colin Walters <walters verbum org> wrote:
> On Tue, 2012-09-18 at 14:18 +0200, Rui Tiago Cação Matos wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to request a freeze break for
>> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682314 . This only has an
>> impact for users of the Japanese input method by adding a few common
>> entries to the input sources panel menu which allows users to switch
>> between hiragana/katakana input modes and other similar knobs which
>> are important for this input method's users.
>
> It's not entirely clear to me what the problem we're solving here is.
> Is it that some input engines have undesired action items?

We haven't shown any input method configure knobs in the keyboard menu before.

This patch makes it so that we allow the most important ones to show
up, without giving up all control. We don't want a ton of special case
knobs to flood the shell menu - look at ibus' own config ui to see
what I'm talking about...

> This is a quite nontrivial patch, but on the other hand, it "just"
> affects a subset of input methods support.
>
> I'd be happiest knowing that an active user tested this patch and it
> worked.


As I said, Takao tested it.