https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1119967
--- Comment #20 from Takehiko Abe keke@gol.com --- (In reply to Yohei Yukawa from comment #19)
It is pretty common to realize you are in a wrong mode after you typed a few chars and have to start over.
Yes it is pretty common annoyance, but some people tend to get super frustrated if it *always* and *predictably* happens every time when they log-in,
They are being unreasonablly sensitive. Please ignore them.
especially for those who always launch terminal or their favorite editor immediately after log-in. On the other hand, I know there are some people who wish exactly the opposite.
What I want is not the opposite.
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And probably some people feel that the previous mode should be remembered. like Mac OS X, right?
In Mac OS X, I believe you can switch directly to a specific input mode. So which being default is irrelevant there. (whereas we cannot do that with ibus as you previously mentioned.)
Well, I feel these 3 options are equally reasonable, and equally unreasonable for those who have different preference.
Equally reasonable! You've just admitted that there's no solid reason to choose direct input mode over hiragana mode as default.
Please note that they are equally reasonable only for those who use mozc exclusively and switch back and forth between direct input mode and hiragana mode.
I use 'en' to type ascii chars and switch to a japanese input method to type japanese. When I switch to a japanese input method, I expect that I am able to type Japanese. You broke this expectation. I have to switch to mozc and then switch to hiranaga mode. This double action feels very silly. It even feels buggy, too. I thought mozc crashed when mozc was updated.
Since I know what is going on now, it is actually a minor, once per session annoyance (read 'I am not super frustrated'). But it must be confusing to those who are new to mozc.
It is quite understandable that ibus-kkc and ibus-anthy enable users to choose the initial input mode in their setting dialogs.
It is a good feature to have. But what should be the default is an orthogonal issue. (hiragana should be the default obviously.)