Help define a good input experience for your language

[Rui Tiago Cação Matos <tiagomatos gmail com>]

Hello,

you might be aware that we are pushing to have a better input story by
default for Gnome 3.6 [1].

IBus has a very flexible architecture and there are dozens of engines
available for it. There are several engines for the same language and
even engines to help input latex among other things.

I'm wary though, of just dumping every installed IBus engine into the
control center's input sources chooser. You can read about that in
[2]. Basically, here's my argument:

"
The way I see it, we are not doing an IBus UI, we are doing the Gnome input
methods UI. The fact that there are engines for IBus like 'latex' and 'compose'
doesn't mean that they make sense to expose from the Gnome point of view. They
might make sense and be very useful but we really need a design on how to
expose them. Just throwing everything into the "Region & Language" input
sources chooser doesn't seem like the best decision IMHO.

So, I think that, at least for 3.6, we should keep using the whitelist. We
should add more engines to it of course, at least the ones Mathieu mentioned in
bug 680840 [3] for traditional Chinese and make sure that the ones
that we expose
are actually usable and maybe even do specific tweaks to the way we present
them on a case by case basis.
"

This is where I'd like your help, since you are obviously in a better
position to tell us what works well for you language. If you could
give us a good overview of input works in your language and how people
usually do it even on other platforms that would be awesome. See [3]
for inspiration on the kind of feedback I'd like to see. Of course
other comments and (constructive) criticism is also very welcome.

Thanks for your help!

Rui

[1] https://live.gnome.org/ThreePointFive/Features/IBus
[2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=682313
[3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=680840