[Mageia-dev] GNOME plans

Wed Jun 13 16:01:38 CEST 2012

On Mon, Jun 04, 2012 at 08:17:44PM +0800, Kira wrote:
+> I got a major concern about the input method in GNOME 3.6+.
+> According to some source from the CJK community here and in China,
+> GNOME3 would default to iBus  since 3.6+ and very hard to change the
+> input method since it's hard-coded. Are we also going to follow this
+> direction?
+
+I checked today and this is what I got:
+"basically if you use ibus, you get a nicely integrated gnome ui; if
+ you use anything else, you get whatever the framework provides (probably
+ some kind of status icon in the message tray)"
+
+So in practice I presume that various bits within GNOME will check for
+IBus, and if it is there, show options to configure it wherever it makes
+sense. Maybe "System Settings", maybe elsewhere.
+Whatever will be in UI, it will hide that IBus is used underneath.
+
+To use another input method:
+Same as currently. Remove ibus, install another. "System Settings" and
+so on won't allow you to configure anything other than ibus.. but you
+couldn't at the moment anyway.
+
+In short:
+When using IBus, experience is nicer. When using another input method,
+no change.. except you might notice that the experience is not as nice
+as IBus experience.
+
+-- 
+Regards,
+Olav
+