Issues regarding input methods for Bullseye

[Shengjing Zhu]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 6:39 PM Shengjing Zhu <zhsj at debian.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Mar 8, 2021 at 5:05 PM Holger Wansing <hwansing at mailbox.org> wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Shengjing Zhu <zhsj at debian.org> wrote (Mon, 8 Mar 2021 13:14:26 +0800):
> > > IMO, we have 3 choice here:
> > >
> > > 1. All languages in tasksel should have a separate task for GNOME, and
> > > a separate task for other DE.
> > >
> > >    The GNOME task installs ibus related language modules. And the
> > > other DE task installs the local team prefered input method and the
> > > corresponding language module.
> > >
> > >    This is my preference, since the choice of GNOME upstream and
> > > maintainer shouldn't have influence on other DE. But we also respect
> > > the GNOME upstream and maintainer's choice.
> > >
> > >    However currently only Japanese has the standalone GNOME task.
> >
> > This option requires to add new binary packages to tasksel, if I understand
> > correctly, but that is no longer possible for Bullseye, due to the freeze,
> > right?

I just looked at tasksel, but it seems it's not straightforward to implement,
1. install ibus for GNOME
2. install other input method for DE except GNOME.
Since it's seems hard to express all DE without GNOME, except enumerating them?

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Shengjing Zhu