Changes/IBus 1.5.32

IBus 1.5.32

Summary

IBus 1.5.32 will support the Wayland input-method protocol version 2.

Owner

• Name: Takao Fujiwara
• Email: fujiwara [at] redhat [dot] com

Current status

• Targeted release: Fedora Linux 42
• Last updated: 2025-02-17
• Announced
• Discussion thread
• FESCo issue: #3354
• Tracker bug: #2346154
• Release notes tracker: #170

Detailed Description

• IBus now supports the Wayland input-method protocol version 2 which is allowed by some Wayland desktop sessions likes Sway, Hyprland, COSMIC desktop sessions.
• IBus now can show the candidate popup for non-Wayland applications of XIM and GTK2 in the Wayland desktop sessions.
• ibus start command is now enhanced to work for the Wayland input-method protocol version 2.

Feedback

• https://github.com/ibus/ibus/issues/2182

Benefit to Fedora

This change will provide the input-method features in some Wayland desktop environments likes Sway, Hyprland, COSMIC desktop environments.

Scope

• Proposal owners: ibus 1.5.32

• Other developers:

• Release engineering: #Releng issue number

• Policies and guidelines: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change)

• Alignment with the Fedora Strategy:

Early Testing (Optional)

Do you require 'QA Blueprint' support? N

How To Test

Start IBus

1. Log into a Wayland desktop session which allows the Wayland input-method protocol version 2 likes Sway, Hyprland, COSMIC desktop sessions. 2. Run an input-method protocol 2 application likes foot (You should not export GTK_IM_MODULE or QT_IM_MODULE.) 2. Run ibus start --type wayland option

Wayland supported aplications (You should not export GTK_IM_MODULE or QT_IM_MODULE.)

1. Run foot, ptyxis or konsole

XIM application with the Wayland input-method protocol version 2

1. Run env XMODIFIERS=@im=ibus xterm

GTK2 application with the Wayland input-method protocol version 2

1. Run env GTK_IM_MODULE=ibus foo

User Experience

ibus start command is a brief tool for users to start the IBus input-method framework and ibus start --help command shows the help messages.

Dependencies

IBus panel needs the waybar in Sway desktop environment since the default swaybar does not support StatusNotifier.

Contingency Plan

• Contingency mechanism: Revert the change to ibus.
• Contingency deadline: Beta release
• Blocks release? No

Documentation

https://desktopi18n.wordpress.com/2025/01/13/ibus-1-5-32-plan/