Bug#680668: tasksel: Input methods for chinese - (Was: Updating chinese-t-desktop in tasksel for Wheezy.)

Hi,

"Yao Wei (魏銘廷)" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > On Jan 12, 2019, at 16:35, Holger Wansing <[email protected]> wrote:
> > 
> > And for traditional Chinese:
> > 
> > Package: task-chinese-t-desktop
> > Architecture: all
> > Description: Traditional Chinese desktop
> > This task localises the desktop in Traditional Chinese.
> > Depends: ${misc:Depends},
> > Recommends:
> > 	scim,
> > 	scim-chewing,
> > 	scim-gtk-immodule,
> > 	im-config,
> > 	fonts-arphic-ukai,
> > 	fonts-arphic-uming,
> > # seems openjdk needs this to display Chinese.
> > 	fonts-noto,
> > 	fonts-noto-cjk,
> > 	libreoffice-l10n-zh-tw,
> > 	libreoffice-help-zh-tw,
> > 	firefox-esr-l10n-zh-tw | firefox-l10n-zh-tw,
> > # poppler-data is needed to display
> > # Chinese on poppler applications.
> > 	poppler-data
> > 
> > Is this working so far, or should things be improved, to close this bug?
> 
> Currently, the following set is recommended (for GNOME3 desktop) instead
> of the ones above, because current GNOME3 has native support on ibus
> (and probably fcitx):
> 
> ibus,
> ibus-chewing,
> ibus-table,
> im-config,
> fonts-arphic-ukai,
> fonts-arphic-uming,
> fonts-noto, # this seems to be unnecessary, but not really sure.
> fonts-noto-cjk,
> libreoffice-l10n-zh-tw,
> libreoffice-help-zh-tw,
> firefox-esr-l10n-zh-tw | firefox-l10n-zh-tw,
> poppler-data
> 
> or we can follow task-chinese-s-desktop and use fcitx instead of ibus in
> task-chinese-t-desktop:
> 
> fcitx,
> fcitx-chewing,
> fcitx-table,
> im-config,
> fonts-arphic-ukai,
> fonts-arphic-uming,
> fonts-noto, # this seems to be unnecessary, but not really sure.
> fonts-noto-cjk,
> libreoffice-l10n-zh-tw,
> libreoffice-help-zh-tw,
> firefox-esr-l10n-zh-tw | firefox-l10n-zh-tw,
> poppler-data
> 
> Other input methods like gcin and hime are also available, but I seldom
> see people using SCIM.

So, for the input method question, I would propose to skip SCIM and move to 
fcitx as in zh_CN.

Any objections or advocates?


Holger