Features/libpinyin

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libpinyin

Summary

The feature covers the integration for ibus-pinyin of a new libpinyin backend to provide intelligent sentence-based Chinese pinyin input.

Owner

• Name: Peng Wu
• Email: pwu@redhat.com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora 17
• Last updated: 2011-09-08
• Percentage of completion: 70%

Detailed Description

User requirements:

• More Intelligent Pinyin Input Method
  • Some users get used to some intelligent pinyin imes, which can input a whole sentence by only choosing zero, one or two candidates, the pinyin ime will figure out the actual sentence the user wants.

Benefit to Fedora

• This will make the Fedora pinyin input method more convenient and intelligent to use, also speed up the user input when using pinyin.
• Currently ibus-pinyin needs more user interactions to input a sentence.

Scope

• Use libpinyin as a back end of ibus-pinyin.
• Make ibus-pinyin more easier and intelligent to input Chinese sentences.

How To Test

• Check whether "Intelligent Pinyin" is listed in ibus-setup dialog and default ime list.
• Try to add "Intelligent Pinyin" to ime list, begin to use the new pinyin ime.
• Get some testing sentences, try to input it under both "Pinyin" and "Intelligent Pinyin", to see whether the "Intelligent Pinyin" can reduce the number of keyboard press.

User Experience

• With the libpinyin back end, Chinese users can speed up the pinyin input speed by pressing less keys.

Dependencies

• Need to modify ibus-pinyin code to integrate ibus-pinyin with libpinyin, and upstream accept the patch.

Contingency Plan

libpinyin is already in testing currently in F16 updates-testing but in worst case we could revert to current ibus-pinyin without libpinyin.