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#553 Install fcitx5 by default on Kinoite
Opened by haowenl. Modified

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fcitx5 offers better integration with KDE out of the box than IBus does. For example, IBus doesn't work on flatpak'ed Chrome on KDE Wayland but fcitx5 has no issues.

I use Aurora image built by Universal Blue. It's not clear to me which step in this process should be adding fcitx5, but I do think having that by default improves user experience.

Universal Blue issue: https://github.com/ublue-os/bluefin/issues/1587

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- Issue tagged with: kinoite

This has technically been mentioned in #166
I'll defer to @siosm but it might be better to bring this topic up in #166 to keep the discussion around this topic in one spot

As far as I remember, the main blockers are:

  • fcitx5 supports fewer languages than ibus.
  • we never really triaged what's needed to make the switch.

This should also be a decision that affects both Kinoite and KDE Spin

I am just putting it here If this ever gets in Fedora by default. Please include Bangla keyboard support
https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/badshah/openbangla-keyboard

I'm OK with installing both ibus & fcitx5 on Kinoite if someone does the work to verify that having both installed does not create issues and still lets users switch between the two.

Looks like we would need packages from https://pagure.io/fedora-kde/SIG/issue/166#comment-799511 or https://github.com/ublue-os/aurora/pull/223/files
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