Test Day:2009-05-14 iBus

DATE	TIME	WHERE
2009-05-14?	TBD: fedora-i18n team available during Asian daytime/evening	#fedora-qa)

What to test?

Today's installment of Fedora Test Day will focus on:

• Features/IBus input methods

IBus is the new input method framework for Asian languages being used in F11.

Who's available

The following cast of characters will be available for testing, workarounds, bug fixes, and general discussion ...

• Development - User:Petersen, User:Tagoh, User:Phuang, User:dchen, WarrenTogami
• Quality Assurance - User:Tester1, User:Tester2, User:Tester3

Prerequisites for Testing

• Rawhide fully updated (with ibus packages installed), or a current Fedora Desktop Live image.

Note ibus is installed by default in F11 but if you should have upgraded from F10 you will need to "yum install @input-methods". At the very least you need to be running the latest ibus, which is ibus-1.1.0.20090417-1.fc11 at the time of writing: eg with F11-Preview.

• A native keyboard for your country/region if you have one

How to test?

Update your machine

See the instructions on the Rawhide page on the various ways in which you can install or update to Rawhide. Or:

Live Image

Optionally, you may download a non-destructive rawhide live image for your architecture. Tips on using a live image are available at FedoraLiveCD.

Architecture	MD5SUM
i386	fixme
x86_64	fixme
Other Versions

Latest syslinux package?
Creating a LiveUSB of this rawhide image requires the latest version of syslinux, which is currently available in Rawhide and in the latest Windows liveusb-creator. Users of F10 and below can upgrade to the latest syslinux package using

yum --enablerepo=rawhide update syslinux

.

Test

Testing iBus usage to input native languages:

• Login to desktop in your native language or the one you wish to test.
• Run im-chooser to turn on iBus if it is not enabled by default in your language
• Test iBus usage by inputting in various applications like gedit, firefox, openoffice.org, pidgin, evolution, thunderbird, kate, your favourite applications, etc in your desktop (GNOME, KDE, or others).

ibus can be activated in an application from the ibus icon in the panel notification area and choosing the desired input method there. If you desktop language does not use a input method normally you may need to add the input method with ibus-setup too.

Test Cases and Results

User	Desktop	Desktop language	Activation	Input method	Keyboard	Application	Result	Comments
Explanation: User:Example	GNOME, KDE, XFCE, LXDE?	de, en, fr, hi, ja, ko, zh, etc?	input method system starts ok?	anthy, chewing, hangul, pinyin, rawcode, table?	de, fr, gb, us, jp, kr, etc?	gedit, firefox, openoffice, pidgin, kate, eclipse, etc?	OK or FAIL? (problem: bug#)?	more problem details?