On Tue, Dec 22, 2015 at 10:08 PM, Eike Hein <h...@kde.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > kimpanel is our frontend to IMEs such as ibus and fcitx. It (or an > equivalent) are necessary to successfully input a number of writing > systems in use across the world. > > kimpanel is currently shipped as part of kdeplasma-addons. I think > that's broken and it needs to be part of the core Plasma Desktop > product - typing text in your language is a pretty basic thing. > > I'd like us to do the following in the near future (i.e. for 5.6): > > a) Move it from kdeplasma-addons to plasma-desktop. This adds > optional build dependencies on the libraries that kimpanel > supports as backends to plasma-desktop - ibus and fcitx. The > maintainer (Weng Xuetian aka csslayer on #plasma) is on board > with this. > > b) Improve it where necessary - let's all have a look at the code > with our Plasma hats on. It's not in bad shape though. > > c) Improve the desktop init js to auto-add kimpanel to the default > panel depending on locale. In prep for this we already exposed > the locale on the scripting interface in 5.4, but we don't use > it in the script yet. This means adding a whitelist of locales > to the script and maintaing it; I'd initially base it on the > list of locales Fedora uses to make the call on installing ibus > by default. > > > Longer-term I want us to: > > d) Merge kimpanel and the keyboard layout indicator. > > e) Make it easier to add input languages (this is more than just > a keyboard layout) from System Settings and auto-add kimpanel to > the panel when needed: This is the level our proprietary competi- > tion has been at for a long time, and we need to catch up. > > f) Investigate global emoji input via the IME stack. > > > The overall goal here is to make sure basic keyboard usability > is always-available to a wider audience than before and doesn't > require a sysadmin degree to achieve. You shouldn't have to know > that you need kdeplasma-addons or ibus to be able to set up and > type in your lang. We fail this hard right now, let's do better!
Cool initiative! +1 Aleix _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
