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Revision as of 16:16, 22 December 2020
Use ibus-m17n as the default IME for Vietnamese
Summary
The current default input method for Vietnamese is ibus-bogo. This should change to the ibus-m17n input method “m17n:vi:telex - telex (m17n)”
Owner
- Name: Mike Fabian
- Email: <mfabian@redhat.com>
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 34
- Last updated: 2020-12-22
- FESCo issue: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
The current Fedora default input method ibus-bogo seems to be not actively maintained and it doesn't work on Gnome Wayland. The bug has been reported already in Fedora 30, see:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1690326
The ibus-m17n input method vi-telex.mim seems to do the same as ibus-bogo, see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1690326#c12
Using vi-telex.mim via ibus-m17n seems to behave exactly like ibus-bogo.
If ibus-bogo offers no additional benefit, it is probably better to use ibus-m17n with vi-telex as the default input method for Vietnamese. ibus-m17n has to be maintained anyway. Therefore, this saves the effort of fixing the unmaintained ibus-bogo.
Feedback
Benefit to Fedora
Vietnamese input works again on Gnome-Wayland. Currently with ibus-bogo it is broken.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- update default IME in comps @input methods
- update langpacks-vi to use ibus-m17n and m17n-db
- the langtable package has data about default input methods. Change this data.
- Other developers: gnome-desktop3 for default vi_VN input method
- Release engineering: #9907
- Policies and guidelines: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
- Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
- Alignment with Objectives:
Upgrade/compatibility impact
The package installed by default will change from ibus-bogo to the packages ibus-m17n and m17n-db for an installation in Vietnamese.
How To Test
Install Fedora in Vietnamese and check that the default input method is vi-telex with ibus-m17n.
User Experience
- There should be very little difference in typing Vietnamese as ibus-bogo and ibus-m17n with vi-telex.mim behave the same.
- The setup tool looks a little different.
- Package sizes and dependent packages are different.
- Memory usage is different.
Dependencies
ibus-m17n and m17n-db
- comps has to be updated
- gnome-desktop3 has to be updated
Contingency Plan
Revert changes back to ibus-bogo
- Contingency mechanism: Revert comps and gnome-desktop3
- Contingency deadline: Beta release
- Blocks release? No
- Blocks product? None
Documentation
https://github.com/ibus/ibus-m17n