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[Alex Beels <arbeels-ossf@xxxxxxxxx>]

There is a similar bug reported for pinyin input (as a wishlist).

I think the gist of both of these bug reports is that m17n is not an
adequate default input method for either Chinese or Japanese.  Trying to
use m17n for either of these languages gives the user the impression
that iBus is broken.

I would suggest the following:

1) Move the Chinese and Japanese support in m17n to separate packages.
2) Install m17n *without* Chinese or Japanese support by default.
3) Install the non-m17n Anthy and Pinyin methods if the user asks for Japanese or Chinese support.

It is better for a user to have no Japanese or Chinese input support at
all than to have bad support.  If there is no support, then the user
knows he has to install something, and will have a chance to install the
good packages.  If the user already has bad support, he often thinks
that is all the system is capable of, and suffers along with that.  Or
he removes iBus and installs SCIM instead.

In addition, I would suggest changing the names of the m17n input
methods so that they cannot be confused with the regular anthy and
pinyin input methods.  I am an experienced user of iBus in both Chinese
and Japanese, and when I saw the m17n methods for the first time (on a
fresh install of Maverick beta), the familiar names "Anthy" and "Pinyin"
fooled me into thinking that these were the full input methods, and that
they had been broken in the new version of iBus.  I only discovered the
packages for the real input methods when I went to remove iBus entirely
and replace it with SCIM.  Had the m17n input methods been named
something else, I would have known from the start that I was missing my
usual tools, and simply installed them.


** Summary changed:

- iBus does not include any functionnal Japanese input method
+ iBus does not include any functionnal Japanese input method by default

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iBus does not include any functionnal Japanese input method by default
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/605523
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