suppor for CJK input methods integration
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Bug Description
People in East Asia mostly use input methods to input the characters they use.
For example, most Chinese (Taiwan) users input Chinese characters via ibus-chewing (Bopomofo methods), ibus-cangjie (Cangjie methods), etc. on en-US keyboard layout. The input methods supports some other keyboard layouts besides en-US layout to input the characters as well.
CJK users should be able to select their preferred input methods. I list some major input methods I know here.
Chinese (Taiwan):
1. ibus-chewing (the most popular one but not maintained actively)
2. ibus-libzhuyin (the new one, also the default one on Fedora)
3. ibus-zhuyin
Chinese (Hong Kong):
1. ibus-cangjie
Chinese (China):
1. ibus-libpinyin
Japanese:
1. ibus-anthy (the most popular one)
2. ibus-kkc (the default one on Fedora)
3. ibus-mozc
GNOME integrates ibus input methods well with GNOME shell.
Here are a few posts on the integration work.
1. ibus-gjs lookup window https:/
2. ibus control+space cycling window for input methods (now using meta+space instead to follow what Windows 8+ and MacOS do) https:/
3. the wiki page of ibus integration on GNOME https:/
The shortcut key of "meta+space" is used to active slingshot app menu now, I don't think that is a good idea because it breaks the user experience of all input method users from Win or Mac platforms.
Good luck for you guys to have a good input method integration in the future! :D
