https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1568365
--- Comment #4 from fujiwara tfujiwar@redhat.com --- (In reply to Bernie Innocenti from comment #3)
Would it be a good idea to open a separate bug for improving the overall user experience of configuring input methods? Every time I switch distro, desktop, or machine, I end up spending a *huge* amount of time figuring out how to get Japanese input to work. The main issues I encountered are:
I don't think there is any bugs or improvements. EN locale has stopped to run input methods before Fedora 27 but GNOME changed the legacy process.
You could see _im_language_list in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/50-xinput.sh .
- there are *way* too many combinations of toolkit's IM module + IM framework + language-specific IM + desktop applet + configuration GUI
And what is your problem?
- documentation is scattered around the Internet, it's often
distro-specific or desktop-specific, and too often recommends components that are no longer being maintained
Probably we can document https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/I18N/InputMethods for that basic topic.
- hard to find upstream projects with so many forks and abandoned
repositories. Just deleting dead projects would save users a lot of dead ends
Probably you can check URL in spec files for the rpm builds.
- Specific to Japanese: defaults assume a Japanese keyboard with mode
switching keys. There should be an obvious way to setup things for US keyboards using the same shortcuts of Windows or OS X
I don't understand what you mean here. Can you elaborate it?
Happy to move this topic to a different bugzilla component or on a mailing-list, but which one?
Talking in this bugzilla is no problem with me but I think a new bugzilla is not good for this. i18n@lists.fedoraproject.org or #fedora-g11n @ Freenode or #ibus @ Freenode would be an option.