ibus-anthy for default Japanese IME
Summary
The current default Japanese IME(input method engine) is ibus-kkc and the default is going to change to ibus-anthy to develop Japanese IME more effectively.
Owner
- Name: Takao Fujiwara
- Email: fujiwara [at] redhat [dot] com
Current status
- Targeted release: Fedora 34
- Last updated: 2020-12-10
- FESCo issue: #2514
- Tracker bug: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
- Release notes tracker: <will be assigned by the Wrangler>
Detailed Description
The current Fedora default IME for Japanese ibus-kkc is no longer actively maintained, which has also held back some ibus development plans for gsettings, so we are going to switch the default IME back to ibus-anthy now. Originally the default was changed from ibus-anthy to ibus-kkc because the upstream anthy was no longer updated. Recently I got the agreement with the original developer of anthy and forked it to anthy-unicode and started to maintain ibus-anthy more actively again.
We also considered ibus-mozc as a potential IME, but the configuration GUI is based on Qt and it also has a different feel to other IMEs.
Feedback
Benefit to Fedora
Make the effective developments in the Japanese IME and apply the latest updates in ibus to each IME more effectively because I'm the maintainer of both ibus and ibus-anthy.
Scope
- Proposal owners:
- Other developers: gnome-desktop3 for default ja_JP
- Release engineering: #9884
- Policies and guidelines: N/A
- Trademark approval: N/A
- Alignment with Objectives:
Upgrade/compatibility impact
The default installed package will be changed from ibus-kkc to ibus-anthy.
How To Test
Install Fedora with Japanese and the default IME is ibus-anthy.
User Experience
- The Japanese detabase and some keybindings will be changed
- The setting UI is a little different
- The package size and depended packages are different
- The memory usage is a little different
Dependencies
anthy-unicode and kasumi
- comps has to be updated
- gnome-desktop3 has to be updated
Contingency Plan
- Contingency mechanism: Revert comps and gnome-desktop3
- Contingency deadline: Beta release
- Blocks release? No
- Blocks product? None
Documentation
TBD