On 17 October 2012 00:55, Allen Li <cyberdup...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to point out that ibus does Japanese and Korean, whereas > fcitx only does simplified Chinese (at least according to the wiki). > Thus ibus is one of the only input options for those languages on arch > at the moment (barring that other one whose name I'm having trouble > recalling at the moment, which I found inferior to ibus), so dropping it > is extremely unfavorable I think. > > Just my two cents. > > Allen Li > > On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 05:30:30PM +0200, Alexander Rødseth wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> ibus is used for keyboard input for a few major non-English languages. >> >> Several of the ibus packages has been unmaintained for a while now: >> https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&repo=Community&q=ibus&maintainer=orphan >> For instance, ibus-sunpinyin, was last updated almost a year ago >> (2011-10-02). >> >> These ibus-packages have survived at least one package-cleanup, being >> neither adopted nor moved. >> While there is interest amongst the trusted users to maintain these, >> none of the trusted users are currently using ibus. >> >> After visiting #archlinux-cn, a couple of friendly people expressed >> interest in maintaining the ibus packages, but they had only few >> packages on AUR to show for. >> I also learned that mostly, fcitx (currently in [extra], is used >> instead of ibus). Dropping ibus could have been an option, but I also >> heard rumors that ibus will be a dependency of gnome-settings-daemon. >> >> There is also a canidate for asking to maintain the ibus packages, >> that has not yet been contacted, but which already maintains several >> related packages on AUR: >> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=yangtsesu&SeB=m >> >> If you think that his packages look ok, my plan is to contact >> yangtsesu and ask if he wants to maintain the ibus packages in >> [community] (and thus becoming a TU). >> >> If you know of other canidates that have a comparable selection of >> relevant AUR packages, please let us know who they are. >> >> Please correct me if any of the above is incorrect or let us know if >> you have additional information. >> >> Sounds like a plan? >> >> >> -- >> Cordially, >> Alexander Rødseth >> Arch Linux Trusted User >> (xyproto on IRC, trontonic on AUR)
Also, fcitx looks very CJK-specific to me, whereas ibus is a multilingual input bus (think SCIM). So, not really directly comparable. I'm all for finding someone to maintain the stuff, be it in the repos or AUR. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1