Re: IM-related issues on openSUSE 12.1 Beta

At Mon, 10 Oct 2011 18:13:41 +0900,
Fuminobu TAKEYAMA wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Several issues related to IM are still remaining on 12.1 Beta.

Here is the status update.


> 1. IBus should be updated to 1.4.0
> 
> IBus supports GNOME 3 in the latest release, 1.4.0.
> IBus status icon is now well integrated to the toolbar displayed on the
> top of desktop. (I do not know its name)
> 
> In Fedora 15, snapshot version of 1.4.0 was shipped to support GNOME 3.
> 
> 
> In order to update, we have to consider below:
> (a) Since libibus2 was renamed, some IM-engine packages must be fixed.
> (b) 1.4.0 requires newer glib; openSUSE 11.3 does not have it.
> 
> 
> I am ready to submit ibus-1.4.0 to M17N.
> You can get it from
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=ibus&project=home%3Aftake%3Abranches%3AM17N
> 
> May I submit 1.4.0 to M17N? Or any idea?

Already updated to ibus-1.4.0 in FACTORY now.
The broken ibus-engines are fixed, too.


> 2. xim.d/uim is broken.
> 
> Tray icons are not displayed on neither GNOME 3 nor KDE 4.
> This simple script works correctly only on GNOME 3:
> 
> export XMODIFIERS="@im=uim"
> export GTK_IM_MODULE=uim
> export QT_IM_SWITCHER=imsw-multi
> export QT_IM_MODULE=uim
> uim-xim &
> uim-toolbar-gtk3-systray &

This problem is still remaining.
(And the above didn't work well in my case, maybe it was executed too
 quickly, so I had to add some delay before gtk3-systray.)

I guess it's a race at start up.
Our script is included in xinit, and this might be too early.

A sane way would be to start via XDG start desktop, but it needs a
fundamental rewrite of the basic setup.

So... as a quick workaround, we can remove / disable the check of
uim-applet-gnome (does this ever worked with GNOME3?).  Then basically
a right toolbar should be selected in the script.  And maybe we need
to add some sleep before starting the toolbar, that is, something ugly
like:

  test -n "$toolbar" && (sleep 3; $toolbar &) &


> 3. uim crashes while launching firefox
> 
> $ GTK_IM_MODULE=uim firefox
> cause segmentation fault at compose.c:633.
> 
> I cannot reproduce this problem on 11.4.
> So I do not know if this is upstream bug or not.
> (needs more information)

I fixed this now and already checked into FACTORY.


> 4. cannot input characters through IM in the search box
>    on GNOME 3's "Activity" tab.
> 
> I reported to upstream:
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=647707
> 
> I created a patch based on
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=621659
> but it enables only direct input while IM is activated:
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=gnome-shell&project=home%3Aftake%3Abranches%3AGNOME%3AFactory

It's still an open bug.


> 5. xim.d/scim exports GTK_IM_MODULE=scim although SCIM does not provide
>    its GTK3 IM module
> 
> GTK2 applications such as Firefox needs this.
> GTK3 applications try to use another IM (maybe not xim).

This is still pending.
Vincent thinks the patch is OK and I sent it to upstream,
but got no response.


thanks,

Takashi
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