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[Gunnar Hjalmarsson <1164252@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2014-03-05 10:07, Anthony Wong wrote (on the merge proposal):
> We should not remove ibus-pinyin if 1. another pinyin substitute is
> not going to replace ibus-pinyin,

Well, that won't happen in 14.04 unless a few IM users rapidly and
convincingly answer Sebastien's message at ubuntu-devel.

https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2014-February/038104.html

> and 2. another input method framework is not going to be replace
> ibus.

That will certainly not happen in 14.04.

ibus-pinyin is the only IM engine that is currently seeded. Considering
that both Xiaojun Ma and Aron Xu said that ibus-sunpinyin is better, I
thought it made sense to not keep seeding it and with that follow the
original suggestion in this bug report.

Maybe we should ask ourselves: Which impression do we make on Chinese
users if we seed an IM engine that we don't consider to be the best
available engine? The IM engine pulled when simplified Chinese is
installed is ibus-sunpinyin anyway.

On 2014-03-05 09:49, Aron Xu wrote:
> How about pulling in ibus-qt4?

You tell us. Since you suggest it, I suppose it would make a difference
somehow. ;-)

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1164252

Title:
  Improve default selection of IBus related packages

Status in Ubuntu Kylin:
  Fix Released
Status in “ubuntu-meta” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Currently we have:

  """
  Input methods:

   * (im-config)
   * (ibus)
   * (ibus-gtk3)
   * (ibus-table)
   * (ibus-pinyin)
   * (ibus-pinyin-db-android)
  """

  This is suboptimal in many ways.
  1. ibus-gtk should be included, since we have notable GTK2 applications like Firefox and LibreOffice.
  2. ibus-table doesn't provide a working input method by itself, it needs at least one of ibus-table-* package to work.
  3. ibus-pinyin is useful for only limited set of people; even Simplified Chinese language support defaults to ibus-sunpinyin while UbuntuKylin and LinuxDeepin (a noteable Ubuntu-based distro in China) switch to Fcitx altogether.

  The conclusion is that the real workhorse IBus related packages would be pulled by language support.
  For meta package like ubuntu-desktop, we either leave a barebone IBus (ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-gtk3) or remove IBus altogether.

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