Re: IBus 1.5

On Wednesday 12 December 2012 17:57:28，Takashi Iwai :
> At Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:42:25 +0900,
> 
> Fuminobu TAKEYAMA wrote:
> > Hi, all,
> > 
> > IBus 1.5 was released several days ago.
> > It is major update.
> 
> Takeyama-san, thanks for heading up.
> I also wanted to ask about this now, too :)
> 
> > How do we update packages related to ibus?
> > 
> > - ibus-* depending on ibus 1.5's typelib (developed in python) is
> > 
> >   not compatible with 1.4.
> >   We must update "Requires" tag.
> 
> "not compatible" means it can't be built with 1.5, or it just needs a
> proper dependency?
> 
> > - Compatibility of two versions of libibus is not clear.
> > 
> >   ibus-mozc linked to 1.4's libibus could communicate with ibus 1.5
> >   as far as I tested.
> 
> This is always a potential breakage in every shared library package,
> and I don't think we can do so much for it.  All related packages in
> the project (thus later in FACTORY once when ibus-1.5 is checked in)
> will be rebuilt in anyway, so unless user does strange things, user
> will get consistent packages from the same project (in theory).
> 
> But if the backward compatibility isn't kept, basically the shared lib
> must increase its *.so version number.  If they didn't, it's a clear
> bug of ibus.
> 
> > - Do we need to clean up its package's change log while it was
> > 
> >   in the M17N/Devel project?
> 
> The change log must be incremental.  You must not remove the old
> changelog that have been already checked in FACTORY, at least.
> 
> So we need to merge the changelog, maybe with a bit of clean up.
> 
> > - The released version still have something wrong.
> > 
> >   For example, Ctrl+Space is the only key to toggle IM state but
> >   I can see other keys in its dconf profile. (bug or dead code?)
> 
> That's bad.  But maybe fixable during the development?

AFAIK this is what it supposed to be. (Though I have nothing to do with IBus 
dev.. I'm just the one who also keeps an eye on ibus)

The new behavior is changed to something like MAC, ctrl+space in ibus-1.5 now 
behave like alt+tab (kinds of stack based), most recent accessed is the next 
one being switched by ctrl+space.

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