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[James Henstridge <1928360@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hadn't realised that they renamed the IM module with the version bump:
that means snaps built against older platforms won't load the old (but
working) Fcitx 4 module when run on a host system configured with Fcitx
5.

We can certainly look at adding the new IM module to the platform snaps,
but that will also switch to the new IPC protocol.  From a quick look
through the source it will probably be allowed by existing AppArmor
rules in the "desktop" interface, but that will need testing.

It's probably going to be easiest to see if we can get things working
with a core20 based platform snap though, since we have fcitx5 packages
there (albeit for a git prerelease version).

For the core18 based platform snaps, we would need to backport the
fcitx5 packages themselves.  Alternatively, I wonder if we could get
away with symlinking the old module name to the new one?

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Title:
  Switch to Fcitx 5 for Chinese

Status in Lubuntu default settings:
  New
Status in Snappy:
  New
Status in Ubuntu Kylin:
  In Progress
Status in im-config package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  In Debian 11 Fcitx 5 will be the default IM framework for Chinese on
  non-GNOME desktops. I can think it's time to make the equivalent
  changes in Ubuntu 21.10 as well.

  I'd appreciate input on the topic from the Ubuntu Kylin team as well
  as other Chinese speaking users.

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