to ibus or not to ibus, that is the question

[Marko Vojinovic]

On Thursday, 8. March 2012. 12.23.47 Peter Gueckel wrote:
> My system has been working fine. I noticed that the input method selector
> showed that no input method was in use. I also noticed that ibus was
> recommended, so I decided to enable it. I logged out and back in, as
> directed.
> 
> I haven't got a clue what the advantage is and I don't see any difference,
> except that there is now an applet in the system tray that says "no input
> window", but when I start firefox, it says "english default layout (intl)".
> 
> ibus is recommended, but what am I getting here? I don't see any difference,
> excepting the (useless) applet.

Ibus is essential for complicated-to-input-multi-keystroke languages, like 
Chinese and such. If you don't know what it is, most probably you don't need 
it. OTOH, I am not sure how much system resources it uses when idle, so if it 
doesn't have a big memory footprint, you can leave it be.

HTH, :-)
Marko