Fwd: 2009-05-14 - Fedora Test Day - IBus input method

[sankarshan]

Please join in to test out IBus and, in general begin contribution to testing.


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From: Liam <lili(a)redhat.com&gt;
Date: 2009/5/11
Subject: 2009-05-14 - Fedora Test Day - IBus input method
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Greetings testers,

IBus input method - Ibus has been rewritten in C, and provides a simple,
clean default system for changing the way international users input
information into a Fedora system.
Most of the work on iBus is being done upstream by Huang Peng. This
feature proposal covers moving from scim to ibus as the default input
method framework for Fedora 11
iBus is designed to improve a number of deficiencies of scim:

* Ibus has been rewritten in C. Scim written in C++ using STL has
problems with weak symbol conflicts without the added complexity and
lower stability of the scim-bridge layer to workaround that.
* It is possible to write client and engines for ibus in any language
that supports dbus bindings.
* ibus loads engines on demand rather than all installed engines as scim
does, which improves the startup time and memory footprint.
* scim loads engines as dl-modules so a problem in any engine can take
down scim, whereas in ibus because the processes are separated only a
faulty process will die leaving rest of the system working normally.
* The architecture of ibus is bus-centric and so much closer to the CJK
OSS Forum Workgroup 3 draft "Specification of IM engine Service Provider
Interface" architecture, which might be supportable in the future.

I'd like to invite you to join #fedora-qa this Thursday, May 14, 2009 to
test Ibus input method.Get more details from:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Test_Day:2009-05-14_iBus

Thanks,
Liam

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[das]

Till now I have installed F11 and thus iBus in three systems. And iBus
is really nice. And the interface too is made very common-sense way.
And one step of the method given there is not needed, you don't have
to run 'im-chooser' if you boot into the default Gnome. It is
automatically done. I have sent emails (that is Firefox), copied the
text (Gedit), and worked with ODT (OOo) with the live image Gnome, or
after the first hard-disk boot.

I cannot say what happens with other X-windows, like say KDE. In one
of the three systems, now Gnome is default, and so nothing more was
needed.

On my Desktop and Laptop, I use Xfce. When I changed from the default
primary Gnome installed by live-dvd image taken on a pen-drive, I had
to go through some problems, reported in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=496542.

After that all kinds of applications with all kinds of text inputs (I
am using Bangla/English on two systems and Hindi/English together with
some others on the third one, and the user is using them without
problem), I think iBus was quite a better alternative to the earlier
ones.

I could give them feedback, but they want reports from livecd-system,
not these hard-disk ones.
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[Rahul Sundaram]

On 05/13/2009 10:15 AM, das wrote:

>  
>  I could give them feedback, but they want reports from livecd-system,
>  not these hard-disk ones. 
Not really. We use live cd's only because it makes it easier for someone
completely new and have not installed the pre-release to test and
provide feedback. It also avoids issues with custom configuration.
However, there is nothing wrong with providing a report from any system,
regardless of how it is installed.

Rahul