F38 proposal: libpinyin 2.8 (Self-Contained Change proposal)
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/libpinyin_2.8
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process, proposals are publicly announced in order to receive
community feedback. This proposal will only be implemented if approved
by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee.
== Summary ==
The libpinyin 2.8 will provide phrase suggestion candidate and longer
pinyin candidate features.
== Owner ==
* Name: [[User:pwu| Peng Wu]]
* Email: pwu(a)redhat.com
== Detailed Description ==
The phrase suggestion candidate feature will provide some candidates
which will following the previous input.
The longer pinyin candidate feature will provide one phrase candidate
which is longer than the pinyin input.
== Feedback ==
== Benefit to Fedora ==
By speeding up the Chinese characters input, the features will improve
the user experience for Chinese users when using Pinyin input method.
== Scope ==
* Proposal owners:
** Release libpinyin 2.8 and ibus-libpinyin 1.15
** Update the Fedora libpinyin package to version 2.8.0
** Update the Fedora ibus-libpinyin package to version 1.15.0
* Other developers:
* Release engineering:
* Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)
* Alignment with Objectives:
== Upgrade/compatibility impact ==
== How To Test ==
For longer pinyin candidate feature, when user input "baiyun", one
candidate longer than the pinyin input like "白云岩" will appear in the
candidate list.
For phrase suggestion candidate feature, when user input "baiyun", and
choose the "白云" candidate, the input method will switch to suggestion
mode, and several suggestion candidates will appear, like "机场", "孤飞",
"亲舍", etc.
== User Experience ==
The longer pinyin candidate and phrase suggestion candidate features
will speed up the pinyin input when using the "Intelligent Pinyin"
input method.
== Dependencies ==
== Contingency Plan ==
* Contingency mechanism: Revert the libpinyin and ibus-libpinyin
package to the last stable version.
* Contingency deadline: N/A (not a System Wide Change)
* Blocks release? No
== Documentation ==
N/A (not a System Wide Change)
== Release Notes ==
The libpinyin 2.8 package will make the pinyin input faster in the
"Intelligent Pinyin" input method.
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Ben Cotton
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