Hi, On Mon, 2021-08-23 at 00:49 +0900, Changwoo Ryu wrote: > I think the best choice is to keep ibus-gtk in Recommends, as long as there > are > gtk2 apps in Debian. > > Without ibus-gtk installed, XIM will be used as the fallback and its bugs will > confuse users. There are already several open bugs about this. When ibus-gtk > was in > OR'ed Recommends, many users just did "apt install ibus" and had trouble with > XIM > unnecessarily. > > Fixing the bugs is not an answer; this legacy protocol has its limits and > ambiguity > in the design.The ibus upstream refuses to fix XIM related bugs and I also > think > those bugs are not worth fixing.
I agree. Also, even if GTK2 is dropped from Debian completely, there is no real negative impact for im-config to offer an extra environment variable. We can be the last for GTK3/4 transition. Osamu
