Bug#720489: [Pkg-ime-devel] Bug#720071: Bug#715568: Please do not use --disable-ibus

[Aron Xu]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:44 PM, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 02:18:50PM +0800, Aron Xu wrote:
>> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Osamu Aoki <osamu at debian.org> wrote:
>> > Hi #715568,
>> >
>> >> > > Changed path of dbus is related following commit:
>> >> > > https://github.com/ibus/ibus/commit/458945e7308ab2661355edbf6880102c5f628dbe
>> >
>> > This commit was from June 13th and was included in my 1.5.2-3 package as patch 0015-*.
>> >
>> > Of course, 1.5.3-1 include this.  Does this require any patch to other programs?
>> >
>> > So far, removing --disable-ibus and recompiling both
>> >  * gnome-control-center 3.4.3
>> >  * gnome-settings-daemon 3.8.4
>> > get me have functional ibus 1.5 on GNOME 3.8.
>> >
>>
>> Good to know! If you have such environment, can you do a bit more test
>> to see if other input method can function correctly without
>> --disable-ibus (I can think of uim, scim, and fcitx)? If no more
>> problem I can do the commit on removing --disable-ibus.
>
> fcitx may if we do not install ibus without breaking others.
> I doubt others.  That is GNOME upstream decision.  Unless someone
> provide patches, I am not optimistic.
>

I've been tracking GNOME's git tree and there are several commits
resolving the problem. Looking at the changesets there should be no
problem with the proposed tests, but we just need to double check.
GNOME once choose not allowing other input method to live, but it
anyway cannot ignore the mass pressure from input method users.



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Regards,
Aron Xu