[aur-general] ibus orphans in [community]

[Pham Bao Trung]

I am using ibus-unikey and have not tried fcitx. On ibus or scim, unikey is
better than m17n. Ready to move to fcitx if it is really better and can be
used for Vietnamese input.

Anyway thanks guys!

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:40 PM, Pham Bao Trung
> <pham.bao.trung at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I have used ibus for Vietnamese input. The only other option is scim, but
> > ibus is far better, so please don't drop ibus.
>
> Btw, what's the input method you are using in ibus right now? Don't
> really think ibus provides more options than fcitx on it right now.
>
> And I think it is already clear we shouldn't drop any of the IMFs we
> currently have in the official repo (fcitx/ibus/scim... whatever) the
> real problem is who will become the new TU to maintain ibus packages
> and also about Felix' tu application (this one may need a new thread).
> So plz don't worry.
>
> >
> > Vietnamese fellows, raise your voices :)
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 6:14 AM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> For the gnome3.6 ibus-integration problem Felix Yan mentioned above,
> >> the patch to split ibus into ibus and libibus is already tested and
> >> can be found here[1].
> >>
> >> [1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/32071
> >>
> >> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:10 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Yichao Yu <yyc1992 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 6:47 PM, Allen Li <cyberdupo56 at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >> >>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 17:45:51 +0200
> >> >>> Alexander Rødseth <rodseth at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>>> If I understand it correctly, we _could_ drop ibus and just use
> fcitx
> >> >>>> instead, but supporting ibus as well is preferrable, since many
> people
> >> >>>> also use ibus.
> >> >>>
> >> >>> My gripe with fcitx is that it is poorly documented (in English at
> >> >>> least), and I wasn't able to get it to work.  I'm sure people are
> using
> >> >>> it fine, but I feel that the quality of software is limited by its
> >> >>> documentation.  No documentation = software sucks, end of story.
>  If we
> >> >>> move in this direction, I'd like to see someone familiar with fcitx
> >> >>> update the wiki accordingly =).
> >> >>
> >> >> We have just updated the English wiki of fcitx recently. It still
> lack
> >> >> some detail description of certain engines (e.g. pinyin) but simply
> >> >> install the packages and set environment variables according to the
> >> >> arch wiki should make it works just fine. Would you mind describing
> >> >> your problem (maybe on fcitx at googlegroups.com) so that we can help
> >> >> with it and probably add it to wiki?
> >> >>
> >> >> We are also aware of our poor documentation and is trying to improve
> >> >> that both on our own wiki[1] and on the user interface.
> >> >
> >> > missing link
> >> >
> >> > [1] fcitx-im.org/wiki/Fcitx
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > .... sorry
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> THX for the suggestion.
> >> >>
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Allen Li
> >>
> >
> >
> >
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>



-- 
God loved the birds and invented trees.  Man loved the birds and invented
cages.
  ~Jacques Deval

Probability does not exist.
  ~Bruno de Finetti

Brian: "Look, you've got it all wrong! You don't NEED to follow ME, You
don't NEED to follow ANYBODY! You've got to think for your selves! You're
ALL individuals!"
  ~Monty Python, "The Life of Brian"