Re: [tlug] IBus for Japanese input

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 05:34:44PM -0700, David J Iannucci wrote:

> I've only just become aware of this as an alternative to scim today,
> after scim has started acting unpleasantly (not necessarily entirely its
> fault) and I find their web site is broken (seems like I noticed this
> was the case weeks ago, but that could be a false memory. If it's true
> though, strikes me as a very bad sign viz. the viability of scim).
> 
> A search of the list archive reveals that Scott Robbins mentioned Ibus
> last May, but it didn't generate any discussion.
> 
Well, me again.  :)  

Fedora was the first to use it.  Ubuntu has it available now, as does
Arch.  CentOS doesn't, last time I tried (not very hard) I couldn't
build it from source on CentOS, as some library or another was too old.

It works well enough for me.  I have a mention of it on my page at
http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/jpninpt.html. 

I think that most distros, perhaps with the exception of CentOS and
RHEL, which are running relatively older programs, have it available. 

There isn't much to using it.  I think that any desktop with Gnome will
probably automate it (though not using Gnome, I'm not sure of that.)


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