Public bug reported:
As I understand it, ibus-pinyin is being scheduled to be deprecated.
The last version of Ubuntu in which I can still use ibus-pinyin
productively is 18.04/18.10. In 19.04 and 19.10, ibus-pinyin loses its
ability to re-arrange the sequence in which the candidate words appear
on the screen. This is a must-have feature for any Chinese input
method, without it, ibus-pinyin is now rendered essentially unusable.
Although Ubuntu now uses ibus-libpinyin as the default Chinese input
option, this method is structurally and fundamentally inferior to ibus-
pinyin. As a native Chinese user, I much prefer ibus-pinyin. Some of
the key reasons include: stability (ultra-stable), ease of adding own
dictionary (including symbols, phrases, etc.), and seamless porting of
user dictionary to a different system.
To the best of my observations, most of the members in the Chinese
Ubuntu forum also prefer ibus-pinyin over ibus-libpinyin (actually I
doubt any of the more senior members is using ibus-libpinyin). The
overwhelming number of members actually use sogou pinyin（搜狗拼音）; however,
this method depends on fcitx, which is not being actively maintained.
Sogou pinyin is not nearly as snappy or stable as ibus-pinyin. But most
important, it is a proprietary software and when problems occur, we are
stuck! At one time, the problem dragged on for more than a month without
a work-around. For something as critical as an input method, this is
not acceptable, especially for business use.
** Affects: ibus-pinyin (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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ibus-pinyin can no longer re-arrange list candidate sequence
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