support various input methods
When choosing an input method in "System" —> "Preferences" —> "Input Method Switcher", one is asked to restart the X session to apply the chosen settings. This is clearly unusable for most users.
Roadmap
- research the questions below in a Wheezy context.
Research
/usr/share/doc/im-switch/readme.debian.gz explains in great details
how the input method configuration works.
- What input method do we need to support? SCIM and/or uim and/or IBus?
- Do we have to choose between e.g. uim and IBus?
- How to have
im-switchdo the right thing in function of the chosen locale? - How hard is it to support starting the system in any given locale (such as US English), while keeping the possibility of using a specific input method (such as SCIM) on demand? (This usecase was reported by an actual user.)
Resources
- Fedora 19 release notes say they now ship ibus, ibus-kkc, ibus-libpinyin and ibus-bogo
- http://webconverger.org/blog/entry/Restoring_Japanese_support/
- One user reports that setting up SCIM for Japanese input requires to restart X, and is thus hard to do for Tails users.
Feature Branch: winterfairy:bugfix/ibus
Related issues
- Related to #6015 (closed)
- Related to #5487 (closed)
Original created by @tails on 5624 (Redmine)