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IBus 1.5.34

Summary

IBus 1.5.34 will update some the Wayland and Emoji features.

Owner


Current status

Detailed Description

  • IBus now will support the deleting surrounding text feature with the Wayland input-method protocols.
  • IBus now will support the pre-edit semantic values for the Wayland input-method protocols (already in 1.5.33).
  • IBus now shows some annotations in the Emoji lookup table.

Feedback

Benefit to Fedora

This change will provide the input-method features in some Wayland desktop environments likes KDE, Sway, Hyprland, COSMIC desktop environments and show users some information of Emoji. (GNOME does not use the Wayland input-method protocol.)

Scope

  • Proposal owners: ibus 1.5.34
  • Other developers:
  • Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
  • Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Upgrade/compatibility impact

Early Testing (Optional)

Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? Y/N

How To Test

IBus pre-edit colors

1. Log into Plasma Wayland desktop session 2. Run ibus-setup and enable ibus-anthy 3. Run systemsettings and select "Colors & Themes" -> Colors and enable a theme with a different selection color 4. Show a pre-edit text with ibus-anthy engine

Emoji annotation information on IBus candidate popup

1. Press Super-period shortcut key and type some emoji annotation and space key x 2

User Experience

This will provides more color selections with the desktop configurations and users can identify Emoji characters with the annotation information.

Dependencies

No


Contingency Plan

  • Contingency mechanism: Revert the change to ibus.
  • Contingency deadline: Beta release
  • Blocks release?

No


Documentation

N/A (not a System Wide Change)

Release Notes

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