> 4. ibus is not working in xfce. I copied the paths from the popup of > ibus-setup into my .bashrc, but even after login out, I couldn't get any > program to actually use ibus. I also had no success in gnome later. I > was trying to get Japanease input to work.
Yes, ibus wasn't working when last I checked too. But, I haven't really explored the problem in any detail, yet. > 5. I've been using thunderbird with Enigmail previously. I think I read > on irc that icedove would be the way to go, and that it hasn't been > packaged yet. > Enigmail is really neat, so I wouldn't want to be without it. Yes, there is no icedove package yet. But, if interested, you could contribute a patch adding icedove. Or, you could wait for someone else to do it.