Re: Replacing Fcitx4 with Fcitx5 in Factory

On Sun, 19 Dec 2021 03:25:40 +0100,
Fusion Future wrote:
> 
> On 2021/12/19 01:24, Nianqing Yao wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > There's a input method framework called fcitx4 shipped with openSUSE Tumbleweed and Leap, but when the whole project turns to new fcitx5, fcitx4 seems to be abounded and outdated. As far as I know, fcitx5 only exists in i18n project on the OBS, not in the main OSS repo. Could it possible to replace fcitx4 with fcitx5 in factory's OSS repo? So that Tumbleweed and Leap will finally benefit from it.
> 
> I agree with you. Fcitx 4 is outdated and openSUSE already has Fcitx 5
> in M17N repo. Fcitx 5 is much more usable on Wayland and is mature
> enough for daily use. It should be pushed to Factory as soon as
> possible.

I believe it's fine to move to fcitx5 on FACTORY, too.  Recently I
updated mozc package to support fcitx5 subpackage, too, so it should
be usable enough for most of Japanese users, too.

I haven't checked whether all needed fcitx packages have been already
covered by fcitx5, but I guess major and important ones are already
there.

The only concern so far is that both fcitx4 and fctix5 packages are
exclusive, hence they can't co-exist.  That said, it'll be some "flag
day" to switch all on Tumbleweed.


Takashi