Comment 13 for bug 1430893

On 2015-03-13 11:47, Aron Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 6:27 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson
> <email address hidden> wrote:
>> It's worth mentioning that the first time a user opens Language
>> Support, it sets the IM framework explicitly by creating
>> ~/.xinputrc based on auto at the time, even if the user does not
>> touch the IM setting.
>
> I suppose ~/.xinputrc should not be created if the user does not
> touch IM settings.

Well, it is intentional.

Up to know the default (auto) has been determined by which IM framework(s) are installed. Take a multiuser system with only IBus installed. The purpose of the automatic creation of ~/.xinputrc is to prevent a surprise change for all users if a sysadmin installs e.g. fcitx. I assume it's preferable that the IM framework is only changed if the user requests so by changing the setting.

I think this reasoning is even more important now when auto may be determined by the locale. We don't want the IM framework be changed just because a user changes the display language, do we?

This is the language-selector code:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-branches/ubuntu/vivid/language-selector/vivid/view/head:/LanguageSelector/ImConfig.py