#26: proposal: move to using IMEs for ASCII/Latin input
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Reporter: petersen | Owner: i18n@…
Type: meeting | Status: assigned
Priority: major | Resolution:
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Comment (by petersen):
I try to summarize high level ideas from the discussions in the meetings
so far:
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2013-09-26/i18n.2013-09-26-06.05.log.html
* Separate keyboard layouts vs maps and IMEs more precisely
* Generically layout switching only makes sense for certain specific cases
* either switching between different physical keyboards
* or switching between keymaps compatible with a particular keyboard
layout
* one problem with new approach is consistency of hotkeys and how to be
consistent for single and multiple IME cases
* one solution/workaround might be not to define any IME switching
hotkey by default perhaps
* might be good if all IMEs providing non-Latin input also had a Latin
mode (for Workstations)
* input framework should couple IMEs with keyboard layouts (configurable)
* need to use meta-data about ascii/latin compatible xkb layouts (like
langtable provides) to limit choices of layouts for IMEs
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2013-10-03/i18n.2013-10-03-06.01.log.html
* need to contact hangul upstream maintainer to ask if willing to add
Latin mode to libhangul or ibus-hangul
* need framework UI for assignment keyboard layout (map) for IME
* need discussion with Gnome people about the design and UI experience
* need panel status icon to show IME input mode
* should discuss with Rui, Allan, etc
http://meetbot.fedoraproject.org/fedora-
meeting/2013-10-10/i18n.2013-10-10-06.04.log.html
* http://code.google.com/p/ibus/issues/detail?id=1662 (ibus request)
* currently keyboard source shows what layout is being used by IME (kind
of a hack though)
* maybe IME label should show the configured layout if there is
ambiguity "kkc (JP)" vs "kkc (US)" say instead
* should we worry about multiple physical keyboard switching case?
* problem/purpose
* simpler UI
* faster switching within IME (performance)
* more systematic layout handling
* preserve IME input mode state (across sessions etc)
* support for custom layouts
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