Re: IBus's default preload engines are fixed

At Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:14:56 +0900,
Fuminobu TAKEYAMA wrote:
> 
> (2012/02/16 4:25), Takashi Iwai wrote:
>  > But what about users of systems with some ibus engines but
>  > in other locales?
> 
> Nothing happens. For example, even if Anthy is installed in a system 
> with en_US locale, it is not added to the preload engine list because 
> en_US does not match ja, which Anthy supports. A language supported by 
> an engine is declared also in a XML file.
> 
> If there was any engines support languages such as en_US, it would be 
> problem.

Hm, didn't check yet but what about the engines with m17n-lib?

Though, in that case, I don't think it's too bad to activate
automatically.


Takashi

> 
> Fuminobu Takeyama
> 
> (2012/02/16 4:25), Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu, 16 Feb 2012 02:50:58 +0900,
> > Fuminobu TAKEYAMA wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I fixed problem that IBus's default preload engines does not work.
> >> (maybe from 1.4?)
> >> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=746612
> >
> > Great, thanks!
> >
> >> Because of this problem, we had to open ibus-settings and add engines
> >> into the preload engines list before using IBus.
> >>
> >> Now, when the preload engine list is empty, for example, at the first
> >> boot, the engine with the largest rank is selected for each language. If
> >> Anthy (rank: 99) and Mozc (rank: 80) are installed then, in Japanese
> >> environment, both of engines are preloaded and Anthy is selected as a
> >> default engine.
> >>
> >> Note that engines whose rank are 0 are not preloaded.
> >>
> >>
> >> So, I would ask maintainers of engines to confirm each engine has an
> >> appropriate rank value.
> >> It can be found in "/usr/share/ibus/component/*.xml".
> >>
> >> Do we need to distribute this fix via the online update?
> >
> > A good question.  For the new installation system, it'd be a really
> > good improvement.  OTOH, if this would change suddenly the setup of
> > the already "working" system, one would regard it as a regression.
> >
> > I guess CJK users should have already selected the list, so there will
> > be no impact by this update.  But what about users of systems with
> > some ibus engines but in other locales?
> >
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > Takashi
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