Bug#694301: gnome-settings-daemon: ibus integration makes ibus useless

[Ma Xiaojun]

> IBus integration in GNOME >= 3.6.0 is filtering input method engines
> and properties, which makes most of the commonly used engines being
> filtered out, or being completely broken because their configuration
> menu items ("properties") are almost all being filtered out. Although
> engines that are not in its white list can be exposed in
> gnome-control-center by manually change a gsettings value, those
> engines cannot be used because the existence of white list filtering.

Though the description here is not very accurate. I still agree this
is a grave bug.

> The items in white list are selected by GNOME developers that they
> think are most sophisticated based on their opinion that inputting
> using IME is just as easy as input Spanish using an US keyboard which
> only needs one or very few options, but the actual situation is in the
> contrary. It's a very complicated thing just like there are different
> editors including vim, emacs, gedit and even more, and those editors
> can't be limited by a DE. Maintaining a patch to that white list to
> enable commonly used engines and properties is not feasible for a
> downstream project, at least pkg-ime does not have any plan to support
> such a move, so the best option is to drop IBus integration in GNOME
> by configuring gnome-settings-daemon and gnome-control-center with
> --disable-ibus, which preserves the original behavior.

Agree, we should never follow the problematic path.

> There has been lots of complains in GNOME's desktop-devel-list from
> Chinese users and developers, and there isn't real progress on
> figuring such collision out right away. Currently Ubuntu has decided
> to go with --disable-ibus for Raring with GNOME 3.6, and OpenSuSE does
> not have the plan to support such a feature in foreseeable time. Only
> Fedora has been officially being the test ground of GNOME so they have
> the integration. I see no reason to enable it in Debian, as we are not
> yet another test ground.

In case some people want keep up with GNOME.
Please help correcting GNOME's decision.
The bugzilla discussion is probably more on topic than that ones of d-d-l.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688914
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=688916