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#1 2011-08-01 21:16:15
- taylorchu
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[REQUEST] update ibus and all its components
ibus 1.3.9 is released 9 months ago, so it is quite old.
could any TUs and DEVs update the ibus branches to git version on github?
It has quite a lot of bug fixes.
I think ibus is important because gnome is going to integrate it in 3.2. I really want to see several testing builds just like other important packages.
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#2 2011-08-03 20:10:59
- Snowman
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Re: [REQUEST] update ibus and all its components
Usually, we stick with stable release for the packages in the repo. There are exceptions but the problem with ibus is that it's orphaned so no-one want to take the responsability in case the unstable release has problems. I took a look and some of the ibus stuff have newer stable release so I'll update them. There are also unstable releases which help a bit since you don't need to worry about choosing the correct git snapshot, but I'll need to see what other distro are doing. As I don't use ibus, I don't want to introduce new problems.
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#3 2011-08-03 23:09:32
- taylorchu
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Re: [REQUEST] update ibus and all its components
I am surprised that it is "orphan" because it is the ONLY surviving and modern input method.
Every distro uses this by default.
It is reasonable that few arch developers use this because the input method supports asian languages.
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#4 2011-08-04 17:53:43
- Snowman
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Re: [REQUEST] update ibus and all its components
Usually devs maintain packages they use. It's easier to test them and it gives extra motivation to maintain them. Unfortunately, we don't have any (I think) Asian devs or TUs so interest in ibus is very small. I updated ibus-hangul and ibus-m17n. Ibus and ibus-pinyin have unstable releases but it'll require rebuilding all the ibus packages. I might do it but it'll be at a later time.
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#5 2011-08-19 17:19:31
- taylorchu
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Re: [REQUEST] update ibus and all its components
they uploaded a newer unstable version 2 days ago.
this should fix problem with chromium url bar and repeated word when typing.
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