On Sun, 2012-05-13 at 08:43 +0100, Tomas Frydrych wrote: > 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, > > 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 - I think there might be some confusion here. IBus is developed by Chinese and Japanese developers and is certainly capable of entering text in these languages. - Owen _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list