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> There is no standard IME for X. Technically true, but for practical purposes IBus is the standard. That's what Fedora and Ubuntu use out of the box. Firefox
by hsivonen 7y ago
> There is no standard IME for X.
Technically true, but for practical purposes IBus is the standard. That's what Fedora and Ubuntu use out of the box. Firefox beta telemetry shows about 89% IBus vs. 11% FCITX.
> My biggest problem with IMEs in free software land is that we've had groups like Gnome lean on IME developers and push through their vision of how it should work -- even though the people pushing their vision don't use IMEs. I ended up migrating to FCITX just because it was the last hold out not to cave to pressure.
What wrong thing did the Gnome folks push for?
- mikekchar 7y agoInsisting that there can only be one input type for the entire session rather than one per window. If you are using multiple languages which each require an IME, Gnome's interpretation is completely broken. I had to stop using IBus because of it. It is possible they have changed their mind since then (several years back), but I haven't followed it. Incidentally, it was also the thing that meant I had to stop using Gnome. Before that I was a happy Gnome Shell user :-(
- hsivonen 7y agoGnome appears to have fixed this.