Package: ibus-mozc
Version: 2.28.4715.102+dfsg-2.2
Severity: normal
ibus-mozc contains an xdg autostart script for GNOME sessions which
checks whether any ibus input methods are already configured for the
user session and, if not, prepends the mozc-jp input method to the list.
From reading #983623 I believe the intention is to remove the need for
manual setup after the package is installed. However, this also means
that if the package happens to be installed on the system, the input
method will be enabled even if the user has no interest in Japanese
text input. I believe the xdg-autostart script is the wrong way to
handle this. GNOME Initial Setup selects an appropriate input method
for the configured locale. On Debian systems, for Japanese, this is
ibus-mozc (if installed) or ibus-anthy (if mozc is not installed but
anthy is). It is true that, if you install ibus-mozc after configuring
your desktop session, it will not be enabled; but
task-japanese-gnome-desktop recommends ibus-mozc so I would expect that
mozc would typically be installed.
The current approach causes a particular problem on image-based
systems. Endless OS is a Debian-based distribution which is distributed
as an immutable snapshot, using libostree. End-users do not have the
ability to add or remove Debian packages from the system. This means
that we must bundle a reasonable input method for every language our
users may wish to use. By including ibus-mozc in the immutable image,
mozc gets automatically enabled on (for example) my UK English system.
So at present we have to either patch the mozc package (the current
approach) or remove support for Japanese text input from our OS. (We
previously had the same problem with ibus-anthy, see #992753, but since
gnome-desktop 43.2-2 switched to preferring mozc, we have followed this
switch.)
Please consider removing the XDG autostart script in both packages.
Regards,
– Will
-- System Information:
Distributor ID: Endless
Description: Endless OS 5.2.0
Release: 5.2.0
Codename: n/a
Architecture: x86_64
Kernel: Linux 6.5.0-10-generic (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE
not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: unable to detect
Versions of packages ibus-mozc depends on:
ii ibus 1.5.27-5
ii libabsl20220623 20220623.1-1
ii libc6 2.36-9+deb12u3
ii libgcc-s1 12.2.0-14
ii libglib2.0-0 2.74.6-2
ii libibus-1.0-5 1.5.27-5
ii libprotobuf32 3.21.12-3
ii libstdc++6 12.2.0-14
ii libxcb-xfixes0 1.15-1
ii libxcb1 1.15-1
ii mozc-data 2.28.4715.102+dfsg-2.2
ii mozc-server 2.28.4715.102+dfsg-2.2
Versions of packages ibus-mozc recommends:
ii mozc-utils-gui 2.28.4715.102+dfsg-2.2
ibus-mozc suggests no packages.
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