Promoting fcitx5 to Factory

[Shung-Hsi Yu]

Hi,

Fcitx 5 has been in the M17N project for more than a year now, and it has an
5.0.0 release in November last year. Perhaps it's time to promote it into
the Factory, co-existing with Fcitx 4?

My personal experience spanning over 2 weeks is that fcitx5 seems to be the
only IME that works consistently on Sway (a Wayland window manager, also). IBus
falls a bit short when used with Firefox and Telegram Desktop. Having fcitx5
in Factory would make Sway users' live a bit easier by making it available
without an extra `zypper addrepo ...` step.


Best,
Shung-Hsi

[Fuminobu TAKEYAMA]

Hi,

@Marguerite

Do you have any plan about this?

Post by Shung-Hsi Yu
Hi,
Fcitx 5 has been in the M17N project for more than a year now, and it has an
5.0.0 release in November last year. Perhaps it's time to promote it into
the Factory, co-existing with Fcitx 4?
My personal experience spanning over 2 weeks is that fcitx5 seems to be the
only IME that works consistently on Sway (a Wayland window manager, also). IBus
falls a bit short when used with Firefox and Telegram Desktop. Having fcitx5
in Factory would make Sway users' live a bit easier by making it available
without an extra `zypper addrepo ...` step.
Best,
Shung-Hsi

[Marguerite Su]

Hi,

Fcitx5 is considered stable.

And I have plan to replace fcitx4 with fcitx5 in Tumbleweed, not keep them
both.

I was about to test the fcitx4 -> fcitx5 upgrade in a clean installation...
but I don’t have time right now

Post by Fuminobu TAKEYAMA
Hi,
@Marguerite
Do you have any plan about this?

Post by Shung-Hsi Yu
Hi,
Fcitx 5 has been in the M17N project for more than a year now, and it

has an

Post by Shung-Hsi Yu
5.0.0 release in November last year. Perhaps it's time to promote it into
the Factory, co-existing with Fcitx 4?
My personal experience spanning over 2 weeks is that fcitx5 seems to be

the

Post by Shung-Hsi Yu
only IME that works consistently on Sway (a Wayland window manager,

also). IBus

Post by Shung-Hsi Yu
falls a bit short when used with Firefox and Telegram Desktop. Having

fcitx5

Post by Shung-Hsi Yu
in Factory would make Sway users' live a bit easier by making it

available

Post by Shung-Hsi Yu
without an extra `zypper addrepo ...` step.
Best,
Shung-Hsi

[Weng Xuetian]

Post by Marguerite Su
Hi,
Fcitx5 is considered stable.
And I have plan to replace fcitx4 with fcitx5 in Tumbleweed, not keep them
both.
I was about to test the fcitx4 -> fcitx5 upgrade in a clean
installation... but I don’t have time right now

Please let me know if you have any concerns regarding the migration or
anything new you want me to add.

Right now data is not automatically migrated and I added a gui tool to
migrate over the data. This can get some more love to make the transition
smoother.

[Marguerite Su]

Post by Weng Xuetian

Post by Marguerite Su
Hi,
Fcitx5 is considered stable.
And I have plan to replace fcitx4 with fcitx5 in Tumbleweed, not keep
them both.
I was about to test the fcitx4 -> fcitx5 upgrade in a clean
installation... but I don’t have time right now

Please let me know if you have any concerns regarding the migration or
anything new you want me to add.

Currently I just find fcitx5 has no Chinese quwei method...but nobody still
use it in 202X.

Right now data is not automatically migrated and I added a gui tool to

Post by Weng Xuetian
migrate over the data. This can get some more love to make the transition
smoother.

I think I can write some simple codes to do the data migration in the
background. because rpm %post does no support GUI.

[Takashi Iwai]

On Fri, 23 Apr 2021 04:00:51 +0200,

Post by Weng Xuetian
Right now data is not automatically migrated and I added a gui tool to
migrate over the data. This can get some more love to make the transition
smoother.
I think I can write some simple codes to do the data migration in the
background. because rpm %post does no support GUI. 

Well, it's not only about GUI, but in general, rpm cannot (shouldn't)
modify the data in $HOME at the package installation / upgrade. This
has to be fiddled in user level.