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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <788033@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

No changes were made in Natty in order to adapt the im-switch/ibus
behavior to the model for language related settings that was introduced
in Natty. The reason is that such changes were considered too intrusive
for an SRU. In Oneiric some code changes for that purpuse has been made
in language-selector. There proved to be no need to alter the im-switch
or ibus package.

This is how it works on an updated Oneiric system:

* Through im-switch it's determined which input method system that is
automatically loaded at the session start. The choice is made out from
the user's set display language.

* As long as a user has never made any changes, the default for the CJK
languages is 'ibus', while the default for most other languages is
'none'.

* On the "Language" tab in the Language Support UI the user can set a
value that overrides the default for the currently selected language,
i.e. the first language on the list.

* For instance: If somebody, who speaks simplified Chinese, prefers and
has selected English as the display language, but still wants to be able
to input things in Chinese, s/he just changes the im setting from
Language Support. The new value is stored as a symlink in ~/.xinput.d,
and will be the im choice for English at session startup as long as it's
not changed again.

* You can start the ibus daemon manually whenever you like, if a need
unexpectedly comes up in the middle of a session.

Personally I think this makes sense. Please let me know of any concerns
you may have. I change the status of this bug report to "Incomplete",
which means that it may expire in a couple of months if no more comments
are submitted.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Incomplete

** Changed in: im-switch (Ubuntu)
       Status: In Progress => Incomplete

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788033

Title:
  Control the load of input methods

Status in “im-switch” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: language-selector

  The purpose of this bug report is to provide a place to discuss
  changes to the way you control whether an input method system is
  automatically loaded. The discussion started on bug #663776, but is
  considered off topic there.

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