Marguerite Su wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 10:29 PM, Fuminobu TAKEYAMA<ftake@geeko.jp> wrote:
With regard to Mozc, it seems that the developers try to concentrate on IBus like the mozc_renderor feature. They will remove code for SCIM soon. We have to be careful.
I and many Japanese users want to put Mozc into the official repository as an exception for usability.
then it's another story. you can ask them to vote for mozc or any other favorite IM.
anyway, user experience is much more important than patches. since there're already someone develop it, even they don't want our code work, they still welcome our feedback.
Well, I think stability is as important as user experience, in particular for our DEFAULT choice. I also recognize the superiority of mozc and use it for my daily work, but still I'm not positive toward making it as the _DEFAULT_ IM for Japanese. Mozc developers only consist of Google employees, that is, the development of it can be very much affected by Google's will and strategy. It will be a risk, if we will too much depend on such a software. You say 'they still welcome our feedback', but I'd like to add 'as long as the feedback is comply with their strategy'. ;-) And one of the negative effects caused by their reject of patches from third parties is, that each distribution and project has to prepare and maintain needed patches by themselves, even if the purpose of patches is fixing small problems. An important thing is, that upstream developers don't know and take care of such patches. This may cause some problems every time upstream releases a new version. If there are and will be responsible maintainers for that, there might be no problem. But if there isn't, this will be also a risk. Note, I also value users' freedom of choice. If we can provide a good way to choose favorite IM much more easily, that will be nice and may be the solution of this discussion. :-) Best, -- _/_/ Satoru Matsumoto - openSUSE Member - Japan _/_/ _/_/ Marketing/Weekly News/openFATE Screening Team _/_/ _/_/ mail: helios_reds_at_gmx.net / irc: HeliosReds _/_/ _/_/ http://blog.zaq.ne.jp/opensuse/ _/_/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org