Button for changing input type outside of textfield does not work

Bug #1897826 reported by DarkTrick
6
This bug affects 1 person
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ibus-anthy (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Reproduce
==========
1) Open a File manager
2) Press the button for changing the input language ( on Japanese keyboards that's the `半角・全角・漢字` button below `ESC`.
3)
Expected: Input language changes
Actual: Input language does not change

Workaround
==========
- Click inside a random text field
- Press the button for changing input language

Why is this important?
======================
When navigating around the system, it's sometimes necessary to switch to English input without having a text field.

Consider this example
- Image you have an English file structure
- Set the input language to Japanese
- Open a file manager
- Search for a folder/file by starting to type
- You'll get gibberish because you're trying to write English with Japanese input. The file selection cursor might even jump to random position according to your input.
- Press `Esc` to try again in English.
- Press The language changing button
- Start typing again.
- You get gibberish again, because outside of the search field the language-changing button press was ignored.

lsb_release -rd
================
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS
Release: 20.04

apt-cache policy
================
ibus-anthy:
  Installed: 1.5.11-1build1
  Candidate: 1.5.11-1build1
  Version table:
 *** 1.5.11-1build1 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: ibus-anthy 1.5.11-1build1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-48.52-generic 5.4.60
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-48-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.9
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Wed Sep 30 09:58:41 2020
SourcePackage: ibus-anthy
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to focal on 2020-07-24 (67 days ago)

Revision history for this message
DarkTrick (darktrick1337) wrote :
Revision history for this message
DarkTrick (darktrick1337) wrote :

Sorry, I just realized, I'm not talking about "language input", but "Kanji/Kana input switch".

To post a comment you must log in.
This report contains Public information  
Everyone can see this information.

Other bug subscribers

Remote bug watches

Bug watches keep track of this bug in other bug trackers.