Re: Replace scim with IBUS

Satoru Matsumoto <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.m17n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [opensuse-m17n] Replace scim with IBUS
From: Takashi Iwai <[email protected]>
To: Ming Xi Wu <[email protected]>
Date: Wed Jan 27 2010 16:49:06 GMT+0900 (JST)

> At Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:30:06 -0700,
> Ming Xi Wu wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>   I request replace SCIM to IBUS.
>>
>>   SCIM upstream is almost dead. We should not keep an unmaintained software in openSUSE.
>>
>>   IBUS (http://code.google.com/p/ibus/), a new developed input method is very active and full functionality, and other distributions like Ubuntu (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/desktop-karmic-input-methods) and Fedora already had done this. 
>>
>>   We have some contributors done the IBUS packaging at OBS https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:swyear:ibus . (Good work, swyear!)
>>
>>   Everything is OK on my openSUSE 11.2 box except fail to enable it in a gnomesu window, but this is not a problem as other distributions don't have this bug.
>>
>>   Do we have any chance to push IBUS into 11.3?
> 
> It's fine to push IBUS to 11.3, but I strongly disagree to *drop* SCIM.
> IBUS doesn't give full functionalties SCIM provides yet.
> 
> So, make IBUS and SCIM parallel-installable (i.e. adjust the xim setup
> priority right), and test the parallel installation on Factory (not
> 11.2!).  If this works, just do osc submitreq to Factory from M17N
> repo.  osc will warn you that no package in the destination, but it's
> fine for new packages.
> 
> If things go well with IBUS and people are happy with it, then we can
> gradually drop SCIM.  But I guess dropping SCIM will happen first
> after 11.3.

+1

When I tested IBus last year, I got some troubles in inputting Japanese
with IBus. Maybe we need some more test before dropping SCIM.

Best,

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