Re: [tlug] Japanese input method

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 01:15:08PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
> Scott Robbins writes:
>
>  > A lot of folks, including myself, seem to have issues with ibus, so
>  > nowadays, I use fcitx.


>
> XIM had a pile of issues, but not working at all wasn't one of them.
> It's not at all obvious to me that any of the newfangled input
> managers is an improvement.  Like, WTF?[1]

The two big issues I've had with ibus were its default, which I missed at
first, which changed ct+space to super+space.  All in all, that's not a big
deal especially since there is a setup with options to change it, but one
of those Linux let's fix what isnt' broken. There's a Yiddish word for that

http://i.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/photoshop/8/7/8/421878_v1.jpg
Farpotshket  Broken because someone tried fix it


For me, the issue that I've found in various systems is that it no longer
seems to recognize keyboard shortcuts.  In various distributions, I've been
able to use a little script, or used a taskbar.  However, it just became a
nuisance and FCITX wasn't a nuisance.

>
> I should have some free time this summer, anybody want to see if we
> can do something about this?  Not to say Scott's work on HOWTO isn't
> excellent, just that free systems should do better than this OOTB for
> the 多言語機能付き Volk.  (And it might very well be that the only
> thing that really needs doing is getting the distros to switch to
> fcitx, but the fact that fairly modern distros haven't suggests that
> fcitx isn't perfect either....)

Well, out of what I played with they are all still using ibus as
default, and it probably works quite well with Gnome, which has integrated
it to the the point of, at least with Fedora, if you remove ibus you break
Gnome. However, I don't use Gnome.

For awhile there, it was trivial, not sure when they broke it again.


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