https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1659748
--- Comment #5 from Lohan G lohang@gmail.com --- (In reply to Mike FABIAN from comment #3)
There are two ways to use the Sinhala Wijesekera keyboard through ibus:
- using ibus-m17n (m17n:si:wijesekera)
- using ibus-typing-booster
So using si-wijesekera through ibus-typing-booster might be a workaround for you until we figure out what the problem with ibus-m17n is.
I'm sorry Mike, please ignore my previous comment! I am now able to use si-wijesekera with ibus-typing-booster. It is somewhat satisfactory. I *can* type better text with it now, so as you suggested, I am going to use it as a temporary solution.
But the look and feel is very shaky, wobbly and stressful to the eye if you type for longer periods. In my case I spend many hours writing in Sinhala either with emacs orgmode or LibreOffice. To show the problem, I did some screen-captures comparing Fedora 29 an older system (Ubuntu 18.04.) When you type a word in LibreOffice, the word stretches and shrinks in a weird way with "ං "s in between characters.
And in emacs, the word that is being typed is shown inside a dark box (or a label?), slightly below the actual line.
Screen captures (uploaded to Nextcloud) :
Fedora 29 without Typing Booster. When I type several lines, the deletion seems to be very random/arbitrary. By the look of it, this depends on the character you try to type: https://nc.lohangunaweera.tk/index.php/s/p8qE5WCYf3anerJ
Fedora 29 LibreOffice with ibus-typing-booster https://nc.lohangunaweera.tk/index.php/s/5794ta6fNHF6my4
Fedora 29 Emacs with ibus-typing-booster https://nc.lohangunaweera.tk/index.php/s/cSC9c9jKosMKRmz
Compare it with an older system and see the difference. This is very smooth. Words don't break:
Ubuntu 18.04 LibreOffice WITHOUT ibus-typing-booster https://nc.lohangunaweera.tk/index.php/s/2g7SFcCsFFdxE6m