Comment 13 for bug 1397776
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| David Berg (dberg918) wrote Re: Suggestion for switchboard-inputmethod-plug to install , remove and set Input Method for non-english based users. [$100] | #13 |
GNOME has ibus baked in and integrates this into the Region & Language section of their Control Center, which contains Language and Format options like Switchboard's Language & Region plug. It is very slick, including a nice language selector that shows up in the top bar when you have more than one language or keyboard layout added in your settings.
Adding similar functionality would be great, but you could iterate on this by selecting some sane defaults based on the language selected during install. For example, if someone selects Japanese as their language, set up a mozc or anthy input source alongside the default Japanese keyboard layout, which is a slightly rearranged English QWERTY layout (I think this is how Windows machines are set up in Japan by default as well).
Considering the ibus package is already a part of Loki by default (not sure if it's intentional, because it is completely broken and unusable), I don't think it's a stretch to have this implemented down the road.