On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 3:43 AM, Tomas Frydrych <tf+lists.gn...@r-finger.com> wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > Rather a long discussion over IBus, but it seems to more or less boil > down to two voices and this: > > Gnome developers: we want tighter IM integration and simpler UI in the > name of better UX, and are looking at IBus as the underlying technology,
Not in the name of better UX, although I guess you could consider "working IM in the overview" to be part of the user experience. > Users: IBus has poor support for CJK input and a history of not > addressing these problems. > > The developers desire for improving the UX is commendable, but without > core functionality there is no UX regardless of how sweet the UI; in the > UX contest ugly menu wins over no keyboard hands down; Linux users will > put up with a lot, but I dare to say (though I am not a UX designer!) we > all draw the line at not being able to use the keyboard. > > CJK represents a big target user group that Gnome cannot afford to > ignore; it would seem to me that the necessary conclusion here is that, > at this point in time, IBus is not a suitable candidate for a singular > IM framework supported by Gnome, and that any plans for immediate IM > improvements need to be rethought to avoid hard IBus dependency. > > Tomas > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list -- Jasper _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list