Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-m17n (3 mails)

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@xxxxxxx>]

At Wed, 27 Jan 2010 00:30:06 -0700,
Ming Xi Wu wrote:
> Hi all,
>   I request replace SCIM to IBUS.
>
>   SCIM upstream is almost dead. We should not keep an unmaintained software 
> in openSUSE.
>
>   IBUS (http://code.google.com/p/ibus/), a new developed input method is very 
> active and full functionality, and other distributions like Ubuntu 
> (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/desktop-karmic-input-methods) and Fedora already had 
> done this. 
>
>   We have some contributors done the IBUS packaging at OBS 
> https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home:swyear:ibus . (Good 
> work, swyear!)
>
>   Everything is OK on my openSUSE 11.2 box except fail to enable it in a 
> gnomesu window, but this is not a problem as other distributions don't have 
> this bug.
>
>   Do we have any chance to push IBUS into 11.3?

It's fine to push IBUS to 11.3, but I strongly disagree to *drop* SCIM.
IBUS doesn't give full functionalties SCIM provides yet.

So, make IBUS and SCIM parallel-installable (i.e. adjust the xim setup
priority right), and test the parallel installation on Factory (not
11.2!).  If this works, just do osc submitreq to Factory from M17N
repo.  osc will warn you that no package in the destination, but it's
fine for new packages.

If things go well with IBUS and people are happy with it, then we can
gradually drop SCIM.  But I guess dropping SCIM will happen first
after 11.3.


thanks,

Takashi
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